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TOM KEATING
1917 – 1984

‘Ballet Dancer’ after Edgar Degas
Pastel on board, in the original Keating frame
Frame size: 30½ x 24¼ inches / 77.5 x 62 cm
Signed Tom Keating

TOM KEATING was an art restorer and famous art faker who claimed to have faked more than 2,000 paintings over 30 years. To-date some 200 Sexton Blakes (Keating’s Cockney rhyming slang for fakes) have been discovered, leaving some 1800 hidden in private collections around the world. Keating was a forger with a cause, perceiving the art trade to be rotten, he retaliated by creating forgeries to fool the experts, hoping to destabilize the system. Keating produced watercolours and oils by various European masters including Francois Boucher, Edgar Degas, Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Samual Palmer, Amedeo Modigliani, Rembrandt, and Renoir. In 1970 auctioneers noticed that thirteen watercolours by Samuel Palmer were for sale, all depicting the same theme, the town of Shoreham. When an article appeared in The Times discussing the auctioneer’s suspicions Keating confessed they were his together with some 2000 other paintings in circulation, but he refused to list the forgeries. Keating was finally arrested in 1977 and accused of conspiracy to defraud. The case was dropped on account of his bad health. Keating rallied in the last two years before his death presenting television programs on the techniques of old masters for Channel 4. Many art collectors and celebrities began to collect Keating’s work even when he was alive, and after his death his paintings became increasingly valuable. The grand faker himself is now receiving the highest compliment as fakes bearing his signature and original style are finding their way into the open market. The demand for real Keating’ has increased dramatically over the last couple of decades, realising high records at auction especially for his nearly Turners, Monets, Rembrandts and Degas’s.
PROVENANCE: By descent through the family with covering letter confirming provenance.

 
REGENCY ROSEWOOD CANTERBURY ATTRIBUTED TO LOUDON
Circa 1820


Height: 19 inches / 48.25 cm
Width: 20 inches / 50.75 cm
Depth: 14 inches / 35.5 cm

A fine Regency rosewood ‘X’ frame three division Canterbury decorated with a laurel wreath to the front, over a single drawer base and turned legs to castors.

 
ANTIQUE PAIR OF BRONZE TABLE CANNON
Circa 1870

Height: 8 inches / 20.25 cm
Width: 16 inches / 40.75 cm
Depth: 6.5 inches / 16.5 cm


A fine pair of 19th century bronze table cannon with 12 inch barrels on their original dockyard made carriages.
 
GEORGE III MAHOGANY & BUTTONED HIDE WINDOW SEAT
Circa 1775                      

Height: 19 inches / 48.25 cm
Width: 27¼ inches / 69.25cm
Depth: 18¼ inches/ 46.25cm

A  George III mahogany and buttoned hide window seat of good size, with serpentine front and moulded front legs, the rear legs plain with a straight back rail.

 
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PAIR OF GEORGE III MAHOGANY CHAIRS
Circa 1785    

Height: 36¾ inches / 93.25 cm
Width: 20¾ inches / 52.75 cm
Depth: 19 inches / 48.25 cm

A fine pair of George III mahogany chairs, the foliate carved top rails above pierced splats with paterae, pendant bell flower and a band of guilloche, the seat rails of serpentine shape. This shape of back that is now referred to as ‘shield back’ is described by Gillows as ‘new balloon back’. The deeply serpentine seats and elegant back leg are further indication of a leading chairmaker.

 
REGENCY BLUE JOHN EGG
Circa 1820

Height: 7.5 inches / 19 cm

A Regency Blue John egg or paperweight of good proportions with good colour and veining, set upon a rosewood stand.

 
TOM KEATING
1917 - 1984

‘Young Lady and Dog’ after Thomas Gainsborough
Pastel on board, in original Keating frame
Frame size: 30¼ x 23½ inches / 76.75 cm x 59.75 cm
Signed Tom Keating

PROVENANCE: By descent through the family with covering letter confirming provenance.   

 
JAPANESE IVORY FIGURE OF A BEAR
Meiji period

Height: 4 inches / 10 cm
Width: 10.75 inches / 27.5 cm
Depth: 3.75 inches / 9.5 cm


A Japanese Meiji period ivory figure of a bear standing on a rootwood base peering down at a snail.
 
PAIR OF VAL ST LAMBERT CHAMPAGNE GLASSES
Circa 1930

Height: 6.5 inches / 16.5 cm
Width: 4 inches / 10 cm

A rare pair of coloured Val St Lambert champagne glasses decorated with the Berncastel pattern.

 
JAPANESE BRONZE RABBIT
Taisho period

Height: 5.75 inches / 14.6 cm
Width: 9.75 inches / 24.75 cm
Depth: 5.25 inches / 13.25 cm

A Taisho period Japanese bronze figure of a rabbit lying down with Shakado decoration, with fine hand finishing and patination, signed to the base.

 
ONE OF THE BEST SHOWROOMS IN THE COUNTRY

We have an extensive four storey showroom in a charming Georgian building in Chichester, which houses our extensive collection of fine antiques and we are very happy to be working from this lovely base. Very occasionally I can be tempted out to exhibit at an antique fair and we are pleased to say that we shall be having a very small stand at the first Petworth Antique Fair which is being held in the grounds of Petworth House from Friday 8th May – Sunday 10th May, more information later.

TOM KEATING
1917 - 1984

‘Young Boy’ after Pierre –Auguste Renoir
Pastel on board, in original Keating frame
Frame size: 16½ x 13 inches / 42 x 33 cm
Signed Tom Keating    

PROVENANCE: By descent through the family with covering letter confirming provenance.
BLACK FOREST CARVED DOG
Circa 1900

Height: 6.5 inches / 16.5 cm
Width: 7.5 inches / 19 cm
Depth: 3 inches / 7.5 cm

A finely carved Swiss Black Forest carved St Bernard dog with a barrel under his neck and a blanket tied to his back, standing on a naturalistic base.

 
JAPANESE BRONZE ELEPHANT
Meiji period

Height: 15.5 inches / 39.5 cm
Width: 18.5 inches / 47 cm
Depth: 9 inches / 22.75 cm

A superb Japanese bronze elephant with raised trunk of good proportions from the Meiji period, the patination and hand finishing is outstanding. A fine example of the artists work, signed in the bronze.

 
CHIPPENDALE PERIOD MAHOGANY SIDE TABLE
Circa 1750

Height: 28 inches / 71 cm
Width: 22.5 inches / 57 cm

A Chippendale period octagonal mahogany side table with gallery, on a turned column with a pierced tricorn support to splayed legs with pad feet.

 
NEW STOCK

Although we have has a busy week finding new stock, we will not be sitting back on our laurels and next week we will continue to hunt down those rare and exciting items to tempt you all. We hope to have back the rare penwork writing slope, an unusual large stick stand, a lovely table, the Cecil Aldin dog etchings and much more.

JAPANESE BRONZE OF A MOTHER AND CHILD BY UDAGAWA KAZUO
Meiji period

Height: 23 inches / 58.5 cm
Width: 27.5 inches / 70 cm
Depth: 18 inches / 45.75 cm

An outstanding Tokyo school bronze figure of a mother feeding her child, she is sitting on a wooden bench holding her child in her left arm with her left breast exposed to allow the child to suckle, in her right hand she holds a pair of chopsticks and is feeding the child from the bento box at her side. A wonderful subject, beautifully executed with excellent hand finishing and patination.
Udagawa Kazuo
(Japanese, fl.1900-1910)
Our knowledge of this artist is very limited, but he seems to have belonged to the 'romantic' school of realism, part of the Tokyo school. These 'romantics' specialized in figures of working people looking happy, prosperous and well-nourished, an image not well based in reality and sometimes verging on the sentimental.

 
LATE GEORGIAN MAHOGANY CANTERBURY
Circa 1810

Height: 21 inches / 53.25 cm
Width: 20 inches / 50.75 cm
Depth: 14 inches / 35.5 cm

A late Georgian mahogany Canterbury with four boat shaped divisions, the base with two drawers all raised on square tapering legs to castors.

 

A NEW EVENT OF DISTINCTION
Friday 11.00 - 20.00
Saturday 10.30 - 18.00
Sunday 10.30 - 17.00

Courtesy shuttle between the fair and Petworth town centre

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www.petworthparkfair.com





The Chichester showroom will be closed on Friday 8th May and Saturday 9th May, whilst we're at the fair, we apologise for any inconvenience.
 
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