Standard furniture included a 4ft 3in (1.30m) tall George IV mahogany four-tier whatnot at £1100 while a three-piece mahogany framed bergère drawing room suite which was taken to a double-estimate £1500 still looked reasonable value for money.
Catching the eye, too, among the furniture, as such lots are doing increasingly, was a pair of beech bentwood chairs designed by Alvar Aalto and with the Finmar Ltd label. Estimated at £300-500 the chairs, with later upholstery, sold at £1000.
Among the ceramics was a pair of Doulton green ground pottery vases, 12 1/2in (32cm) tall decorated with chaffinches on a branch by Florence Barlow which took £1250 against a £300-500 estimate.
Best of the glass was a 13 1/2in (34cm) tall Bohemian ruby glass jug with pewter-mounted lid and six matching goblets all on a circular tray engraved with stags which made a mid-estimate £1000.
Works of art were led by a Japanese carved ivory group of chickens on a cherrywood pestle and mortar.
Measuring 8in x 7in (20 x 18cm) this took a lower estimate £1000.
