The Summer Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair: Olympia, London W14 9-19 June

Apollo, June, 2005

Over 300 international dealers offer a huge variety of vetted antiques to specialist collectors, interior decorators and buyers for the home at this important and long running summer event. It is again one of three fairs held at the famous exhibition halls over a two week period in June; the others being The London Antiquarian Book Fair (9-12 June) and the Hali Antique Carpet & Textile Fair (9-19 June). Please refer to pages 30-37 and below for a selection of intended exhibits at this fair with descriptions supplied by the dealers.

Sansovino frame carved in walnut and partially gilt. Venetian, circa 1600. 41 x 46 cm. Joanna Booth, London

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A silver-mounted coconut stirrup cup with crest and motto of Munro, circa 1790. Dm. at rim 6.6 cm. Sanda Lipton, London

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Tureen, cover and stand. Qing dynasty, Qianlong period, circa 1775-85. Jorge Welsh, London

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William Callow (1812-1908). Amalfi from the shore--A summer's morning. Signed & dated 1887. Watercolour over pencil, 21 3/4 by 32 1/2 in. John Spink, London

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Terrick Williams RA (1860-1936). Venice Sirocco Morning. Signed oil on canvas. 28 by 36 in. Walker Galleries, Harrogate, N. Yorkshire

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A Royal George IV wine cooler made in London 1821, by Philip Rundell and a Victorian mirror plateau, made in London 1838, by William Bateman. Designed by John Flaxman and Edward Hodges Baily. Prov. H.R.H. Ernst August, Duke of Cumberland and King of Hanover (1772-1851) Koopman / Rare Art, London

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Austrian school dated 1807. Seven portraits of the Zoecker family. Watercolour on ivory. Inscribed verso with their ages. 76 x 51 mm. Charles Plante Fine Arts, London

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A Regency rosewood brass-mounted library table in the manner of John Maclean & Son, circa 1820. Haughey Antiques, Kirkby Stephen, Cumbria

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Miniature by John Smart (1742-1811), signed with initials and dated 1776. The ivory set in its original diamond frame with bow surmount, 3 in high. Prov. J Pierpont Morgan Coll. 1935. Judy & Brian Harden, Bourton on the Water, Glos

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