Martel Maides Auctions Fine Art Sale This Thursday 22nd September

Martel Maides Auctions next Fine Art Sale is this Thursday, the 22^ndSeptember, and features a fine array of paintings, antiques, clocks and jewellery. An electronic catalogue can be viewed on line by cutting and pasting http://www.invaluable.com/auction-house/martel-maides-cimcc30avvinto your browser. Alternatively, the lots themselves - and our helpful members of staff! –  are on display at our Cornet Street Auction Rooms between the hours of 8.30am and 5.00pm (5.30pm on Wednesday).

The star items include:

1. An exceptionally rare 18th century Channel Islands silver table bell by Guillaume Henry with an estimate of £4000-6000. This is probably a unique piece by arguably the Channel Islands' finest silversmith - no local collector has seen one before.

2. A magnificent Regency ebony veneered musical Bracket Clock by Santiago James Moore French of Royal Exchange, London, c.1820. Estimate: £8000-12000. This is a particularly fine clock by a well noted maker, in very good and original condition. It has been in the same family's ownership for approx. 80 years.

3. One of three oil paintings of Venetian canal scenes by Hugo Golli ('brush name' Vallin). Estimated at £3000-4000 each. Born 1921 in Novara, Italy. He studied under Daleza in Paris before completing his studies at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts and is a renowned master of painting glassy waters in the shimmering heat or the first coolness of evening. A contemporary and equivalent talent to Antoine Bouvard.