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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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Antique George III mahogany Architects desk, lift up adjustable drawing surface, pull out front with fitted interior, with leather writing surface, and sectional interior, original brass lock with key. Pull out candle scones to the sides, approx 79cm H x 105cm W x 66cm D
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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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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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Imperial Chinese flambe glaze vase, Hu Qianlong six character incised seal mark and of the period (1736-1795) The deep bowl-shaped body raised on a spreading foot has a bow-string border below the shoulder and a pair of trailing scroll handles flanking the neck, and is covered with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red colour streaked in purple and milky blue. Along with purchase receipt Hong Kong 1980. Certificate of Identity No C 61144. See also, another example in The Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics, Gems of Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, p. 147, approx 22cm H (in fully restored condition, showing signs of the refired glaze flaking)
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Large antique 19th century Chinese famille rose hu shape porcelain vase of "hundred deer" motif, decorated with stylised pierced twin handles, Qianlong (Chien Long) 1736-1795, six reign mark to base in red, along with a carved wood stand, approx 45cm H x 34cm dia (excluding stand)
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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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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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