George Augustus, 5th Lord Hobart Oak, brass, pine, steel. 36.5 L x 11 H x 21.5 W price inc GST SOLD
Australian Cedar Dining Table in ‘Roman Revival’ Taste c1840
With an excellent colour & patina. The top of richly figured NSW cedar. Original metalware & condition.
George IV Mahogany Library Bergere Chair c1830
An elegantly formed & very comfortable English George IV/ William IV period mahogany library bergere chair. With recently re hand caned seat, back and sides, overscrolled arms, centurion skirt carved front legs & rectangular back. The back arched backwards, forwards & with sabre legs to achieve a wonderfully elegant profile in a room. Duck down cushion seat & good original patina. U.K c 1830. 110cm H x 65cm W.
Portrait Of An Algerian Hussar c1890
Oil on canvas, origional water gilded frame. French c1890. A finely painted orientalist portrait of a French Hussar of the 11th regiment, possibly in Algeria or Egypt. 59cm H x 41cm W. Price inc GST Sold
Cantonese Exportware Ladies’ Cabinet c1840
A very fine quality Cantonese Exportware ladies’ cabinet. With writing drawer and extensive ivory accessories. 43cm H x 35cm W x 24cm D.
1920s Library Armchair
An extraordinarily comfortable 1920s easy chair, newly upholstered in greige fluffy wool, the stuffings & cushion all new duck down feather filled. 85cm H x 85cm.W x 105cm D. Price inc GST SOLD
Set of Eight Greek Revival Dining Chairs UK c1825
A superb quality set of eight English George IV period dining chairs, in well figured Honduras mahogany. With reeded & panelled concave Klismos backs, after similar models illustrated in ancient Greek vases paintings. Supported by pairs of carved clamshells. The seats with original horsehair fillings, on reeded front legs & swept rear legs. Scrolled Grecian buttresses to chair rail / uprights. Excellent patina & no damages. They are very comfortable. Sets of eight of this form & quality are rare.
Ships Table c1870
A rare ship’s serving / narrow dining table, in a honey coloured faded teak, the ends of the legs fitted with brass plates for fixing to the ship’s deck.
UK c 1870
Of narrow space saving form, perfect for behind a sofa, as a servery or hall table.
75cm.H x 159cm Wd x 46cm.D
Price inc GST SOLD
Tasmanian Native Timbers Exhibition Bookcase c1895
A rare Tasmanian exhibition quality native timbers small bookcase. A celebration of the finest cuts of tiger / fiddleback blackwood, musk, with Huon pine shelves, faced in blackwood. With finely cut & moulded pieces of solid fiddleback blackwood to the front & sides,the drawer face and fielded door panels in the finest cuts of burl musk. Original glass knobs, locks & hardware. Possibly made on the eve of the Federation of the Australian states, when Tasmania feared its idiosyncratic identity, and unique botanical treaures, exemplified in this bookcase, may have become lost to the bigger Australian whole. Excellent quality & untouched patina. Possibly made for an exhibition. C1895.
192cm.H x 104cm W x 49cm D
SOLD
Cantonese Exportware Porcelain Soup Tureen c1820
A rare and large Chinese (Canton) exportware soup tureen of canted rectangular form. The lid with stylized melon branch handle, the handles to the ends as boar’s heads. With underglaze painted enamels of scenes on the Pearl River. The tureens are the largest and rarest of the Chinese exportware dinner service items, sent & sold to Westerners as proof of their exotic tastes. C. 1800 -1820. Excellent unrestored condition – two tips to boar’s ears lost. Ht 22cm.Wd 32cm Dp22cm.