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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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Pristine Kawai Grand Piano. Ebonized cabinet work along with a matching adjustable stool, dated 04/2017 model GL-40 Serial number 2703620. still retains plastic coating on sheet music stand and pedals. As New condition. approx 180 cm long x 151 cm wide x 102 cm high. Due to a dispute post our Bowral Auction 31st October 2021. This piano is now back up for auction, timed online with instructions by the Executor and Director of the estate to sell by timed auction.
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Hans Heysen (1877-1968) Australia, "Zinnias in a brown jug", oil on board, circa 1905, (Unsigned) Ex Studio of Hans Heysen S.A, Ex Braesyde Bowral, Ex Philip Bacon Galleries see info verso. Approx 42.5 cm x 34 cm for the work
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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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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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Finely engraved scrimshaw, titled Boatheads, three mast ship in a polar landscape, signed G Tonkin, approx 13 cm 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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James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 - 20 October 2008) Australia, captives in a Threatening landscape I, 1946, oil on board, signed lower right, Ex Eva Breuer, Art Dealer, approx 14.5cm x 12cm
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Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905) England, Lady Godiva, watercolour, Originally Purchased by the Trustees of the National Art Galley of N.S.W, The top of frame, inset with The Coventry Halfpenny (1792), signed lower right and dated 1877, approx 80cm x 96cm
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