Rare first edition of English furniture of the eighteenth century by Herbert Cescinsky ; illustrated from drawings by the author and from photographs: in three volumes. One of the classics of English decorative art history, & put simply, a must have for all furniture & decorative arts students.
Herbert Cescinsky was a wonderful human of boundless energy, enthusiasm & encouragement. He published extensively & formed so many seminal collections, starting the Antique Collectors Club,
still the leading publisher of antique & decorative arts texts.
Published by London : George Routledge & Sons, Limited, 1911
English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century by Herbert Cescinsky published 1911
Renaissance Revival Triptych c 1860
A beautifully painted Italian Renaissance revival triptych in the style of 15th century Northern Italian artists, of The Virgin & Child, with Angels & Saints to the wings. A small,portable domestic altar for daily devotionals. The hands, faces & landscape of excellent quality.
Oil on poplar, with later varnish & gilding
Italian. c 1860 & earlier.
50cm x 71cm x 4cm
Price inc GST $5,500
Irish Regency Waterfall Bookcase c1815
A good model of an Irish Regency ‘waterfall’ bookcase, with well scalloped ends & graduated shelves, able to take a range of book sizes.
Faded mahogany to the ends, shelf fronts, top & plinth with original red stained pine backboards. Good patina.
c 1820.
162cm H x 105cm W x 40cm D
Price inc GST $2,750
Tibetan Silver Mounted Trunk c 1880
A wonderful repousse silver mounted, fur, vellum & iron bound trunk onto a timber carcass. Tibetan, 19th century.
49cm H x 110cm.W x 48cm.D
Price inc GST $950
Regency Reproducing Machine Writing Box c1810
A rare English Regency period reproducing machine / writing box, inlaid with ebony & brass stars & Greek key fret. UK c 1810. 23 x 28 x 46cm
DM.for $
With secret compartments & an early type of reproducing / letter copier. Sensitised paper was placed between two layers of felt over which a small roller was passed. Variants were developed in the 18th century by industrialist James Watt, and Thomas Jefferson.
Cork Picture of Arcadia UK.c1840
A rare picture made of cork, from a cork tree, with watercolour background, of an Arcadian scene with tower lake & verdant foliage. Related examples in the collection of the Regency architect Sir John Soane’s Museum, London. Excellent condition.
U.Kc 1840
51cm × 54cm o/a. frame width3cm
Price inc GST $950
Regency Mahogany Secretaire Chest of Drawers
A lovely small secretaire – chest of drawers, in honey coloured mahogany & satinwood.
UK c 1810.
Excellent original.condition & patina.
A good chest of drawers, with the added bonus of a useful writing drawer for work.
108cm H x 93cm W 55cm d
Price inc GST $2,800
Huon Pine Dining Table c1990
A well designed & beautiully made Tasmanian Huon pine dining table, of rectangular form, slowly maturing to a good colour. The whole of the same timber, the top in two ancient boards each approx 500 years old. With the stopping of all commercial felling of Huon pine, this table has a great future.
The table c1990 very comfortably seats 8
Ht 78cm x 190cm W x 105cm.D
Price inc GST $3,300
Six Gillows ‘Hackwood Park’ type Dining Chairs c 1815
A rare set of six Gillows of Lancaster mahogany dining chairs, with reeded legs & pierced & upholstered backs, closely related to a set of 18 supplied for Lord Bolton of Hackwood Park, UK in 1813, demonstrating the advanced nature of the firm’s designs. UK c 1815 -20.
The third image from Susan E Stuart’s ‘Gillows of Lancaster & London 1730-1840’ of the Hackwood Park chairs.
With a great patina & really comfortable.
Price inc GST $3,700/set
French Boulle Mirror c1850
A super quality French engraved brass & red tortoiseshell boulle mirror, in excellent original condition. c 1850.
64cm H x 60cm
Price inc GST $3,700
Mughal Manuscript Leaf c1780
A fine Mughal manuscript leaf illustrating a scene from Akbar’s Adventures with the Elephant Hawa’i.
Jalal-ud-Din Muhammad or Akbar the Great (1543-1605) , was the third Mughal Emperor. The drawing is allegorical, from the book The Life of Akbar.
Northern India c1780
230mm x 130mm
Frame size 340mm x 230mm
Price inc GST $850
Queen Anne period Walnut Longcase Clock London c1710
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
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 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.