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Margaret Rice Oxley Sold at Auction Prices

b. 1888 - d. 1968

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Dec. 15, 2022
Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Original illumination titled Blow Bugle Blow
Est: £200 - £300
Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Original illumination titled Blow Bugle Blow * Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Original illumination titled Blow Bugle Blow, pen, ink, and watercolour on parchment, comprising 3 verses written in a calligraphic hand in red and black ink, with title, first word of each stanza, and initial letters of each line in gold (rubbed in places revealing bole beneath), pen, ink, and watercolour border depicting fairies and elves, a dragon, and a castle, with 'M Rice Oxley' pencilled on verso (in the artist's hand?), faint crease lower left corner, sheet size 21.2 x 16.1 cm, mounted (29.3 x 23.7 cm) QTY: (1) NOTE: It is surprising that so little is known about the artist Margaret Rice Oxley, given her obvious skill as a watercolourist. She is believed to have lived at Nyth Hill, near Shrewsbury, and she appears to have been primarily an illustrator of poetry and prose, although we have been unable to trace any publication bearing her work. Her paintings, which occasionally appear at auction, commonly depict fairy folk and fantastical scenes.
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Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £800 - £1,200
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). The Dandelion Fairy, watercolour, depicting a fairy seated on a dandelion flower, being serenaded by four elf musicians, one with a bass drum, one with a concertina, a third with a bugle, and the fourth a singer, against a landscape of hills and a windmill, signed lower left, 28.5 x 20.5cm (11.25 x 8ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £800 - £1,200
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Autumn Gold, watercolour, depicting a small boy and a lady seated on a river bank beneath a tree in autumn, with fairies and elves catching the falling leaves and cavorting on the bank and in the tree and stream, against a hill and landscape vista, titled in decorative script 'Autumn Gold' within painted frame to lower margin, signed lower right, 31.5 x 23.5cm (12.5 x 9.25ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £800 - £1,200
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Bubbles, watercolour, showing a young lady wearing a long gown seated beneath a pergola, holding a bowl and blowing bubbles with a clay pipe, watched by four children, two holding hoops, and one trying to catch a bubble, titled 'Bubbles' in decorative script within painted frame to lower margin, 22 x 17cm (8.75 x 6.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £1,200 - £1,600
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). Autumn Fairies, watercolour, depicting a small boy and a lady in lace-edged dress seated on a river bank beneath a tree in autumn, with fairies and elves cavorting in tree and stream trying to catch the falling leaves, against a hill and landscape vista, one or two very short closed edge tears, signed lower left, 47 x 35cm (18.5 x 13.75ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £1,200 - £1,600
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). The Sorceress, watercolour, depicting a sorceress attired all in red and seated atop a rocky hill, holding a skillet from which emanates magical vapour trails, with a group of four children clambering up the rocks and watching her from below, signed lower left, 41 x 31cm (16 x 12ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
Dominic Winter Auctions
Jul. 21, 2016
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968).
Est: £1,200 - £1,600
*Rice Oxley (Margaret, 1888-1968). The Pied Piper of Hamelin, watercolour, depicting the Pied Piper being followed by a line of children up a rocky outcrop overlooking a walled town and estuary with sailing ships, a few unexceptionable short closed tears to left-hand edge, signed lower right, 44 x 33cm (17.5 x 13ins), mounted, framed and glazed Provenance: Purchased by the current owner approximately twenty years ago from a lady who bought the painting at the sale of effects of Mary Rice Oxley (1887-1965), sister of Margaret, in Shrewsbury in the mid 1960s. Curiously for such a fine watercolourist, little is known about the life and work of Margaret Rice Oxley. (1)
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