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Antique 18th Chinese sang de boeuf conical bowl, with later made stand, along with original purchase receipt Hong Kong 1980. Identity No C 61146. Good sound condition, approx 19.2cm dia
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James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 - 20 October 2008) Australia, No22, Herakles III, oil on board, signed lower right, approx 18.5cm x 13cm
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Percy Aldridge Grainger, cast by the American Roman Bronze Works New York, by A Newmark 1933 mounted on a marble base, signed and dated 1933, impressed mark to base Roman Bronze Works NY, total approx 55cm H
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Rare antique Chinese robe with Human Face Dragons, silk floss embroidery on silk satin with a myriad of symbols. These robes were hand embroidered and then hand sewn together and hand lined. Never washed, only aired, approx 131cm L
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Pair of Howard Chairs Ltd Titchfield model Lounge arm chairs, with original printed green upholstery. each standing on square tapering front legs. Paper label under one chair reads Warwick street London address label. Stamped to two back legs London England. Mid 20th century (2)
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Antique Victorian George II revival bracket clock of large size by J.C. Turner of London. The arch topped dial with silvered chapter ring beneath subsidiary dials for chime/silent, fast slow and Cambridge or eight bells chimes, with a three train movement striking on eight bells and five coiled gongs. With heavy carrying handles, pierced side panels and fluted columns, has pendulum key and back cover key (in office 8000.117), recently restored and cleaned, approx 70cm H x 43cm W x 32cm D Running and keeping time
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Italian Piaggio Ape 50 4540z in blue, 50 cc, circa 1996, unknown working order and sold as is. Not registered. Great display piece. Approx 246cm L x 122cm W x 160cm H
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SHOULD READ - A well detailed French prisoner-of-war-style bone and horn model of a 42 gun frigate - 7½ x 12ins (19 x 30.5cms) with bound masts, yards and stunsail booms, standing and running rigging and deck details including carved male figurehead with top hat, hair rails with carved rope edges, anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails, gratings, stove-pipe, bell canopy, balustrading, deck-rails, companionways, upper deck guns, two ship's boats, one in chocks and one in stone davits, with thwarts and oars and other details. The planked and pinned hull has horn strakes and carved stern and quarter window details. Mounted on two bone supports on decorated straw work base with leaf decorated bone edgings. Glazed mahogany case (later). Purchased Christies London Lot number 336 15th April 1993
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Fine antique Regency giltwood convex circular mirror applied scrolling foliage and crest mounted with an eagle holding a ball, well carved scrolling giltwood foliage to the shoulders and base (please note decoration is removable from back), approx 150cm H x 92cm W
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Fine LARGE Maori Feast Bowl probably carved by Anaha Te Rahui (1822-1913), New Zealand. Carved and engraved wood with haliotis shell inlay. Large spherical bowl with fitted lid flanked by seated attendant figures on either side and the bowl and lid carved in high relief with a series of tiki faces with haliotis shell eyes (mostly missing) inset, the whole elaborately carved in Rauponga scrollwork motifs, aged deep dark brown patina. The offered bowl is so idiosyncratic in style and treatment that it can be attributed to the carver Anaha Te Rahui. Throughout his long life Anaha Te Rahui saw many changes in Maori culture, and as an artist, his work evolved with the times. Roger Neich has written extensively on the woodcarvers of Ngati Tarawhai (2001). According to Neich, ‘although he almost certainly never worked with stone tools, Anaha was the last of the old Ngati Tarawhai canoe builders. By the time the large carved house building movement got under way, Anaha was already in late middle age and well established as the chief to Ngati Tarahwai. He enjoyed wide contacts with many prominent Europeans and experienced European education through his children, and from his work in the courts. He was literate in Maori. ...Anaha was clearly very much a man of his people, a great leader and certainly not an alienated artist.’ See Neich (2001: figure 15.25) for a another bowl attributed to Anaha Te Rahui as well as a listing of other documented works by the artist. Approx L60cm, B36cm, H43.5cm. PROVENANCE Cornelius Pieter Meulendijk Collection, Rotterdam. Christies London, The Meulendijk Collection - Lot 243, October 21st. 1980. John Magers Collection, Sydney.
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