Mahogany gate leg table

Feet carved with scrolls.

Needlework wing armchair

Early 18th century (c. 1720)

In walnut with cabriole legs. Re-upholstered in Lee's tapestry.

Furniture

Six fold leather screen

Finely painted with birds, insects and flowers in natural colours upon a gilt ground.

The screen would be a necessity to shield people from draughts, either by the fireside or at a table.

Mahogany stool

Curved rails and square carved feet. The seat was embroidered August 14th 1945.

Two Italian altar candlesticks

17th century

Adapted for electricity with Venetian style shades. Carved gesso and giltwood.

Regency rosewood sofa table

Fitted with one drawer and two flaps on central square tapering pillar and quadruple supports with brass claw castors. Inlaid with brass lines and brass floral borders.

Georgian straight-back settee

With mahogany frame and three cushions.

Pair of mahogany tripod table

With pie-crust top: lobed and gadrooned, on fluted and spirally fluted support. Ball and claw feet.

Chesterfield sofa

Upholstered in corduroy with white linen loose cover and down cushions.

Kneehole desk

Pair of English carved red walnut chairs

Early 18th century

Inlaid with birds and flowers in the Dutch manner, with ball and claw feet.

Round-topped mahogany table

18th century

With tripod base and turned stem.

Apron-shaped bombé-fronted commode

Mid 19th century

Of harewood [wood dyed in a colour to suit the piece]. Shaped sides enclosing 3 shelves each, tapering legs and white marble top. French (early Louis XVI style).

The “commode” in the sense of a chest of drawers in the French style became fashionable in England after the mid 18th century. Victorian’s delicately used the name for any piece of furniture designed to conceal a chamber-pot.

Mahogany serpentine chest,

Four drawers, satinwood inlay.

Pair of George II style single chairs

With Gothick pierced splat backs above stuffed seats on acanthus carved cabriole legs with claw and ball feet.

Knole settee

Covered in early C 18th Flemish tapestry.

The Knole settee became popular in the C 19th and even early C 20th; It was probably named after Knole in Kent, the home of the Sackvilles.

Mahogany chest of drawers

Four drawer serpentine front. Oval handles with urn décor.

Framed embroidery panel

Wool and silk

A pastoral scene with two figures representing a “shepherd” and “shepherdess” in costumes of the 1680 period.

“Bolton Abbey in the Olden Time”

1836

Framed tapestry panel screen, copied from a painting by Sir Edward Landseer. This reproduction was commissioned by the Duke of Dev-onshire and was created using a “Hattersley” Loom.

All the figures depicted within were all painted from life:

• The “Monk” was a Mr Callcott

• The man on the left was Lanseer’s brother.

• The young man with the heron and bustard was Lord Ossulston

• The “Keeper”, kneeling beside the deer was the Duke of Devonshire’s Russian servant.

Pictures

Michael Henry Glendower Page Croft, 2nd Baron Croft (1916-1997)

1938-1939 by Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980)

This was Kokoshka’s first commission in England. The sittings took place in Kokoshka’s flat at 45A King Hendry’s Road, London NW3. Michael Croft recalled between 16-20 sessions for the portrait to be completed. These sittings began in November 1938 lasting intermit-tently until the end of January, 1939.

South West View of Croft Castle 1983 by John Napper (1916-2001) John Napper studied at the Royal Academy in London. During the Second World War he became a war artist in Sri Lanka and East Af-rica. The vibrancy of colour he found in the tropics greatly influ-enced his work. After moving to live in France and to America. He returned to Britain in 1971 and lived in Ludlow until his death in 2001.

Milkmaids in a Welsh Landscape

Possibly by George Barret the elder, c.1752-1784

Oil painting on canvas of a Welsh landscape. Introduced by the 2nd Lord Croft and may represent the countryside near Hafod.

Classical landscape

By George Barrett (1729-84).

Oil on canvas in a handsome running gilt frame.

A Lion with the motto: “TRYUMPHE O TRESPAS”

One of two carved heraldic emblems with the Croft family mottoes. Translation: “Triumph over death [or evil]”.

Two needlepoint panels

Possibly mid 17th century

Depicting scenes from classical mythology; the one on the right shows a country mansion in the background.

Croft Castle Fire Engine By Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997)

A Wyvern with the motto: “ESSE QUAM VIDERE”

One of two carved heraldic emblems with the Croft family mottoes.

Translation: “To be rather than to seem to be”.

East Front of Croft Castle By Kenneth Rowntree (1915 - 1997) Kenneth Roundtree studied at Ruskin School of Drawing, Oxford and at Slade School of Fine Art. During the second World War par-ticipated in “Recording Britain” project and was an official war art-ist.

Shepherd holding bagpipes

1755-1760

Soft paste porcelain enamelled and gilt.

Ceramics

Girl with a basket of flowers

C.1780

Soft paste porcelain enamelled and gilt.

Ballad singer c. 1785 Soft paste porcelain enamelled and gilt. Standing with a sheet of words in his left hands.

Gardener c.1820 Soft paste porcelain enamelled and gilt.

Gardener c. 1765-69 Bone china, enamelled and gilded. Man resting on a spade.

Woman bending over a pot of flowers c. 1861 Bone china, enamelled in colours & gilt.

Young man with a bird’s nest c.1765 Soft paste porcelain, enamelled & gilt.

French provincial Delft dish

19th century

With white ground painted with central blue and yellow lined circular panel, single blue flower spray. Two further yellow and blue painted lines and seven similar sprays within green border.

Ceramic castle with oval base

Possibly to contain pastilles, which would be burned to scent a room, or mask unwanted smells, such as tobacco

Jar With black lid, decorated with birds and trees.

Four plates Part of the Dresden floral pattern dinner service

Michael (later 2nd Lord) Croft, with his sister Diana

1935

Michael Henry Glendower Page Croft, 2nd Baron Croft (1916-1997) and his sister The Hon. Nancy Diana Croft, Mrs Manfred Uhlman (1912-1999). Taken in 1935 before Michael became 2nd Lord Croft.

Other items

Michael (later 2nd Lord) Croft, with one of his sisters 1922 Michael Henry Glendower Page Croft, later 2nd Baron Croft (1916-1997) and his sister The Hon, Anne Rosemary Dorothea Croft later Mrs Herbert Ed-mund Poole (b.1918). Framed photograph of Michael Croft and his younger sister Rosemary (Posy), electioneering for their father at the 1922 General Election. The placards read 'Twelve years our MP. Our MP for life. A Bournemouth man for Bournemouth'. Henry Page Croft had been MP for Christchurch and then Bournemouth from 1910 until 1940.

Pair of ormolu two-branch candelabras Two light, with round tapering stems set with swags.

Gilt clock

16th century, Augsburg

On ebony stand, in a glass case. Engraved on base: “Repaired by J. Whitehurst 1797”. Unfortunately this ancient and beautiful clock no longer works. A splendid example of the work of the craftsman of Augsburg in Bavaria.

Mahogany mantel clock Two wreaths gilded above the clock face and a garland below the clock face. Brass gilded inset dial.

Ladies' jewellery casket

Late 19th century

Of Edwardian oak with a decorative inlay of mother-of-pearl and carved animals, including squirrel, unicorn and birds of paradise.

Pair of gilt metal candelabras

Carpet

Central Persia, Sultanabad region, with floral festoons on an iron red field within a blue border, vases of flowers and floral palmettes.