A fine example of a London made, walnut cased Queen Anne period longcase clock, by Samuel Ogborn (active 1698 -1722), c1710.
Eight day, hour striking with 5 finely turned pillars, subsidiary seconds dial & date aperature, 12″ square dial with crowned angel spandrels to the corners & finely matted dial. Original hands, brass cased weights, iron bell & pendulum. Accurate to 3 minutes a week.
The original case veneered onto oak with quartered walnut veneers to the trunk & sides & lovely patina. The plinth not reduced & original hood. Quartered veneers to trunk & sides.
Newly cleaned, serviced & warranted for 2years.
Ht 255cm
Queen Anne period Walnut Longcase Clock London c1710
English Boxwood Chess Set & Board c1850
A good quality English mid 19th century box wood Regency pattern chess set, with ensuite mahogany, boxwood & rosewood folding board, with penwork backgammon interior.
U.Kc 1850
Board size 450mm x 450mm
King ht71mm
Price inc GST $650
Regency Low Library Bookcase c 1820
A stylish English Regency low bookcase in mahogany with original grilles backed in gold silk, parcel gilt columns & apricot brecciated marble top. A terrific & useful anchor for a room. The columns and gilding of fine quality & style, in nice old worn condition.
U.Kc 1830
88cm H x 287cm W x 50cm D
(the plaster frieze sold).
Regency Egyptomania Chest of Drawers c1825
A really stylish & useful English Regency chest of drawers, in mahogany with cast iron heads of Isis mounts & temples to the handles. Ex Cintra Galleries.
U.Kc 1820
90cm H x 126cm W x 56cm D
Irish Chippendale Armchair c1765
,A magnificent Irish Georgian armchair, of very large proportions,in richly carved mahogany. The carving with typically Irish punched ground & leafy front seat rail. 98cm H x 77cm W x 68cm D
With a great patina & really comfortable.
Price inc GST $3,300
Pair of Egyptian Regency Fire Dogs c1825
A rare & large pair of English late Regency period fireirons in retour d’Egypte taste, cast with a nice mix of Sphinx heads, acanthus leaf & dog paw feet, by Edingtons of Glasgow. An identical pair supplied to Clarendon, on the River Nile,Tasmania c 1835.
61cm H x 32cm W x 42cm D
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Georgian mahogany campaign box c1810
A heavy quality mahogany,brass bound campaign box, with inset flush handles for economy of space & brass bindings to protect the box in transit. Typically made for intercolonial officers & civil servants on the move. Never with interior fittings. A useful size as a small coffee / wine table.35cm.H x 58cm W x 39cm D . UK origin c1820.
Regency rosewood brass inlaid Grecian sofa
A beautiful example of a Regency period ‘Grecian’ sofa, made of rosewood, inlaid with brass. Supported on sabre legs, with anthemion cast sabots to the brass casters. Good original colour & finish, newly re-upholstered, and very comfortable. UK origin c1810. Ht 89cm x 204cm W x 62cmD Price inc GST $6,750
Regency sabre leg card table c1810
An elegant English Regency period mahogany card table supported on sabre legs. The top finely reeded, when closed a useful sidetable of rounded rectangular form, opening with double hinged back legs, to form a square card table,for four. Red leather interior & good patina to the polish. 74cmH x 90cm x 42cm closed. 73cm.H x 90cm × 90cm open . UK origin c1810
George IV Irish Dining Table c1825
A magnificent Irish George IV period mahogany dining table with solid top, reeded edge, on the most wonderful carved & triple ring turned column, leaf carved legs & massive paw feet.
Great colour & finish.
Reasonably by Mack, Williams & Gibton of Dublin.
c1825.
144cm dia x 74cm H
Price inc GST $3,800
Regency Griffin Tea Urn c1815
A wonderful example of a Regency bronze tea urn, with traces of gilt. Topped by a Sphinx vent, with Griffin to base, gilt feet, eagle handles, Greek key borders & lioness bosses. Complete. U.K c1815.
Ht 35cm x 35cm w x 32cm D
Price inc GST $1,200
Regency Brass Inlaid Bracket Clock c1815
A terrific quality large English Regency period bracket clock
London c 1820
In best quality mahogany case, with ebony & brass inlay & fish scale silk backed sound frets. 8 day hour striking movement, twin fusee powered with substantial plates & bob pendulum.
Retailed by Streeter New Bond St London.
430mmH x 29mm W x 184mm D
Price inc GST $3,750
Pair of Australian Villa Dioramas c1880
A wonderful & rare pair of Australian Victorian period crushed glass & timber dioramas of model suburban villas.
One with corrugated iron verandah, the other with slate & Italianate loggia. c 1870.
Ex Josef Lebovic’s private Collection of Australian Folk Art.
Renaissance Lead Tondo c1620
A fine Renaissance cast lead tondo of Minerva Presenting the Personification of Painting to the Seven Liberal Arts
from the workshop of Hans Jacob Bayr (Germany 1574-1628).
German, c1620
Cast lead, traces of gilt. The casting in lead allowed detail finer than bronze.
155mm dia x 20mm.
Price inc GST $950
The Soldiers Farewell watercolour c 1810
THE SOLDIERS FAREWELL. A rare English Regency period watercolour, with pencil & ink, of a Red Coat Officer farewelling his young family. UK c1810
Original octagonal gilt frame 41 x 37cm
Price inc GST $850
Irish Georgian Serving or Lobby Table c1780
A rare Irish Georgian serving / lobby table c 1780, of terrific scale & quality, great for a grand entry or drinks station behind a sofa. Mahogany onto white pine, with rough dressed framing under, later marble.
82cm H x 71cm D x 158cm W
Price inc GST $3,500
Charles II Oak Gateleg Table c1680
An excellent example of a late 17th century English oak gateleg table, with an end drawer, well turned baluster legs & good old patina.
c 1680 – 1700.
75cm H x 124cm x 105cm
Price inc GST $3,300
Regency Rosewood Dwarf Bookcase c1815
A fine & useful English Regency period dwarf bookcase, Indian rosewood inlaid with sycamore of stars, geometric lines & paterea. With the original gilt brass grilles to door, shelves & parcel gilt persic columns to ends. The form favoured by Regency cabinet maker George Bullock. Ex John Dunn Antiques Melbourne. Illustrated Australian Antique Collector 1973. 83cm H x 97m W x 39cm D
Regency Drum Library Table c1810
A rare & stylish English Regency period revolving drum library table, of handy small size. Brazillian rosewood, inlaid with satinwood, oak lined drawers, original key. Faded green leather top. UK c1810.
Ex Stair Gallery, Mayfair London. Ht 79cm x 92cm diameter.
Grecian Bronze Inkwell UK c 1825
A beautifully cast & patinated English George IV period bronze inkwell, with original cut glass liner. The lid in the form of a pine cone, egg and dart vase shaped well, supported on tripartite winged fauns with lion paw feet. After designs by C.H. Tatham, taken from ancient oiginals. Ht 115mm. UK c1825.
Scottish Regency Cylinder Bureau Bookcase c1810
Edinburgh c 1810.
Regency Greek Revival Tea Urn c1815
A magnificent old Sheffield plate tea urn, complete with original interior insulator, lids and ivory mounted tap. Of lobed urn form, the body with a band of raised Grecian fret motif, with cornucopia handles. In almost mint condition, the borders lightly ‘bled’. Ht 42cm x 31cm x 31cm
Raingo of Paris Mantel Clock c1830
A superb quality French thuyawood, ebony & bronze mounted mantel clock by the esteemed Raingo of Paris, makers of patent planet pendulum & orrery clocks to King George IV of England & Louis Phillippe of France.
Paris c1830
Thuya wood, an astonishingly rare wood, is found only in Morocco, here veneered onto oak & bronze mounted.
8 day, half hour bell striking with key wind & regulation.
Ht 334mm x 210mm 110mm
Newly serviced.
Price inc GST $4,250
South German Walnut Travelling Cabinet c1740
A South German marquetry cabinet c 1740. In finely figured walnut, onto oak & poplar with a good old patina. The doors with contrasting panels and quadrants of dark walnut, the top with geometric marquetry. Mounted with blued steel carrying handles, and fine original lock, hinges & key. The brass escutcheons with engraved faces & remains of gilding. The interior with original decoration painted in cobalt of clouds.
On new lucite stand.For a collection of wonders, or a snazzy drinks cabinet?
George III period Oval Wine Cooler c1800
A very elegant & virtually untouched George III period wine cooler, for storing cool whites on ice, with a bung hole to the base. Of tight oval form, the flat top with a good patina, handy as a wine table in itself. In wonderful heavy Cuban mahogany, with brass brass bindings & original ogee lug handles to the ends, on original tapering leg stand & trail casters.
French Art Deco Amboyna Writing Table c1920
A fine quality French Art Deco period writing table, mounted with bronze. The inset leathered top with gilt Greek key stamped border, the edges crossbanded in palisander, the large drawer to the front, sides & back veneered in amboyna & ebony allowing it to stand centred in a room. On solid amboyna bronze mounted legs. Good patina & mint condition. A stylish addition to any room. French c1920. 750mm H x 980mm W x 600mm D.
Decoupage Screen c1847
A stylish & very decorative French 1840s two fold decoupage screen, of cut out, overgilded and painted prints on the original timber & canvas frame. Signed and dated, by Mrs Hipp Lallemonde 1847 (nee Adele Secobellier). As good as a vase of fresh flowers to a room! 1100m H x 800mm wide x 30mm D.
Pair of Argand Reading Lamps c1820
A rare pair of Argand lamps c 1815 in cast bronze of extraordinary form, in the Roman Revival taste as promoted by Thomas Hope. For burning whale or colza oil, they are in the form of Roman cruzie oil lamps, suported on triform bases, with lion paw feet & winged harpies, the sides of the burners with winged grotesque theatrical masks, the handles serpents. Good colour & condition. Reasonably attributed to the specialist bronze caster & lamp maker James DeVille of London (1777-1846). Ht 42cm x 39cm W x 19cm D.
Tasmanian Huon Pine Corner Cabinet c1850
A rare and really useful Tasmanian Colonial period Huon pine corner cabinet, in two parts. With finely moulded removeable pediment, the carcass in two sections. The huon door panels screwed on to prevent warping. The backboards single slabs of Kauri pine. Untouched original condition & metalware.
Hobart c 1850
207 x 115 x 55cm D.
No other examples are known in Huon pine.
(Great drinks cupboard!)