a fine French Empire period mercury gilt & bronze mantel clock c 1812-1815, the case cast with emblems of The Arts.
8 day, 1 /2 hour bell striking, silk suspension movement with outside count wheel, signed to the enamel dial, Thomas Scettot of Paris, [active c1812-1815].
The case by Antoine Ravrio of Paris, the foremost bronze case maker of the day.
Ht 360mm x 170mm W x 110mm D
Ref: G.H. Billie, Watch & Clock Makers of the World p.283.
Newly cleaned & serviced & warranted for 2 years.
Price inc GST $4,750
French Empire Mantel clock c1812
Regency Windsor chair c1820
An elegant and comfortable English Regency period spindle back Windsor armchair in highly figured elm & beech, with a wonderful original patina.
UK c 1820
Arcadian Painted Tin Tray c1830
A beautifully painted, gilded & ‘japanned’ tin tray, of shaped oval form. The central oval finely painted in oils of an idyllic rural scene with figures beside an ancient bridge. The convex border with rolled edge forming a strong handle, decorated with gilding on a red painted ground. Excellent original decorative condition.. 77cm x 62cm x 5cm UK. c1830.
Jeremiah Linde Jones by George Morosini, drawn 1850
A portrait in coloured pastels by
George Morosini. (Italy- / Ireland D 1883)
of Irish / Australian Royal Navy Purser / Paymaster Jeremiah Linde Jones (1791, – 1866 New South Wales), together with two of his Royal Navy buttons, contained in the original carved timber & paper mache frame, typically found on the artist’s works.
Signed lower right. Inscribed verso Sept 12th 1850. J.L. Jones R.N.Paymaster / Purser HMS Ajax. Queenstown/ Cork.
Jones was born Glenross, County Fermanagh, Ireland. Married Charlotte Orme in Calcutta, India 1836. They settled in the Braidwood district of NSW from 1838 – 45, thence to the Paramatta district in NSW, where they had six children.
George Morosini born in Palermo, came to London and in 1840 married Clotilde Parigiani, a well known contralto who sang in Italian opera with Gris, Mario and Lablanche; she was also a cousin of Pope Pius IX. They settled in Dublin at 134 Baggot Street shortly after marriage and Morosini immediately set up business as a portrait artist. He exhibited five portraits at the RHA in 1861.
The Braidwood Museum, New South Wales, has Jeremiah Linde Jones’s full Navy uniform (minus these two buttons), cocked hat and sword.
31cm x 24cm
Excellent original unfaded condition. Later card mount, original glass.
Frame size 59cm x 50cm
Price inc GST $2,200
Set of Eight French Empire Style Dining Chairs c1950
A very chic set of 8 French Empire style dining chairs in black lacquer, silver & gold leaf.
The form closely follows ‘Roman’ back chairs made by Jacob Frères of Paris c 1805.
French c1950.
PRICE INC GST $3,200/set
George II period Walnut Stool c 1745
A handsome quality English walnut stool, with quarter crossbanded & face veneered skirt, onto a well patinated oak carcass. Supported on four beautifully carved legs, with carved harebells & clam shell to the knees, supported on claw & ball feet – the pearl in the eagle’s claw. Excellent original colour, marks, rough carved blocking to the frame & rich red brown old patina. Original drop in seat frame upholstered in coarse linen. Perfect for putting feet up on, or a tray of snacks. 47cm H x 57cm W x 47cm D
Anglo Indian Teak Campaign Chest c1820
An elegant & finely made Anglo Indian Regency period two part campaign chest, for a military officer on the move, or exotic travel. Of rectangular form, the two parts resting on lugs, with inset flush brass carrying handles, inlaid rosewood escutcheons, the drawers with dust liners between & fine dovetail joining. Supported on 19th century teak bracket feet, the semi – circular fretted brass ‘moustache’ type handles the rarest & most expensive form. Good colour & original finish. India, with English labour.102cm H x 107cm W x 50cm D.
Pair of Scottish Regency Chairs c1810
A stylish & useful pair of Scottish Regency period mahogany chairs. With finely figured tablets to the backs, classical X form crossbars, with reeded frames & drop in seats uoholstered in new coarse linen blend fabric . On turned legs & stretchers. Wonderful faded colour & dry, old waxed finish. C.1810.
French Empire Period portrait of a Young Woman c1810
A beautifully painted French Empire period portrait of a young woman in an aubergine velvet dress, life sized, apparently unsigned.
Oil on canvas size 92cm x 71cm
c1810
Price inc GST $6,250
Anglo Indian Campaign Chest with Secretaire c1860
,a wonderfully evocative two part Anglo-Indian narrawood & Chinese elm secretaire – campaign chest of drawers for military use or exotic travel, of good smallish size. Made in an Indian run workshop for the UK / European market of Straits Chinese timbers. The original feet unscrew, the top drawer fitted as a writing desk, with original wool felt, key to inner door, & nice old paperwork / ephemera inside c1860.
George II Oak Settle UK c 1750
A wonderful example of a George II period best English oak settle. With hoof feet, scalloped front & side seat rails, finely panelled back, excellent patina and a soft burgundy leather seat. It is comfortable & great for a big country kitchen. 99cm H x 182cmW x 70cm D
UK origin c 1750
Price inc GST $4,400
Mahogany Bureau Bookcase c1780 attributed to the Workshop of Thomas Chippendale
An exciting example of an 18th century mahogany bureau bookcase c 1780. Beautifully proportioned & sporting the original acanthus enriched cast brass swan neck handles, the drawers fully lined in mahogany. With fine cavetto moulded pediment, over a pair of astragal glazed doors. The interior with mahogany grooves for the mahogany faced shelves, all with original pink wash interior. The bureau base with beautifully figured best Spanish mahogany fall, original four pinned brass lock & typically simple, high quality fitted interior of drawers & ink / quill compartment. Over four graduated drawers -entirely of best mahogany. On the original bracket feet, the backs of the feet with laminated pine blocks & pink wash to the backings etc
English Chinoiserie Overmantel or Pier Mirror c1920
A stylish English Edwardian period red, black & gilt lacquer pier or overmantel mirror c1920. The carved pine frame in black & gilt, the front in dark red ‘Chinese’ lacquer, with gilt scrolls & peonies, the corners carved as HoHo birds. With original mirror plate, in excellent original decorative condition. A wonderful addition to any room. 150cm H x 97cm W x 7cm D
George IV plum pudding Mahogany Grecian Centre Table c1825
An extraordinary English George IV period supper / centre table, made of the most wonderful ‘plum pudding’ mahogany, in late Greek revival taste, c 1825.
Mint original condition & super quality
74cm H x 121cm diameter
Price inc GST $5,950
Scottish Regency Rosewood Tea or Card Table c 1815
A fine Scottish Regency rosewood dog paw foot folding tea / card table in untouched mint original condition. When open & unfolded the interior finely veneered. Edinburgh c 1815.
75cm H x 92cm W x 46cm closed
72cm H x 92cm W x 92cm open
Price inc GST $2,750
Savoy Table 1932
An original AG Mobelfabrik Horgen Glarus, Savoy table, Swiss c1932 in oak & cast iron. This table specified by architect Le Courbusier, as ideal work / dining tables for his model housing units in Nice, France – l Unites d’habitation.
It is comfortable, strong & flat packs.
Le Courbusier exhibited furniture made by Horgen Glarus in his “Pavillion de l’Esprit Nouveau” at the Exposition internationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, as exemplars of functional modernity.
[The iron ends cast with the maker’s name]. 75.5cm H x 130cmW x 80cmD
Price inc GST $4,400
Anglo Indian Campaign Chest c 1830
A well proportioned example of an officer’s brass bound two part teak campaign chest. Made in India, with fine English made cut brass handles, rosewood escutcheons, for the inter-Colonial market. A wonderful example, in Tasmania since the 19th century, of a two part campaign chest, with elegant cut back handles, cross-banded edge to the jointed top, with original iron lug handles, turned feet and terrific colour and patination.
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
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
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
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
Winter Exhibition Open from Saturday 3rd August
Winter Exhibition of new discoveries. Now open from Saturday 3rd, at 12pm, thence daily 10.30 – 4.30, with daily updates to web in the coming days & weeks. Do drop out to Richmond.
Plus many more items, and daily new additions
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
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