A rare Japanese Arita potteries, kekiemon pattern teapot, exported through the Dutch controlled trading port of Dejima, for the West,with a tinker made silver restored spout.
Height 10.cm
c. 1700
Price inc GST SOLD
Japanese Arita Potteries teapot c 1700
Australian plaster library bust c 1870.
A good Victorian plaster library bust of an unknown hipster, attributed to Australian sculptor Charles Summers (1825 -1878).
Height. 56cm
SOLD
Pair of Regency period bronze fire andirons c. 1815
A nice original pair of English Empire period bronze, gilt and verdigris green fire andirons c 1815.
18cm x 18cm x 40cm.
The lions based on an ancient Egyptian basalt model of 1st century BCE, at that time in the collection of scholar/ designer Thomas Hope, now in the National Museum, Lisbon.
Swedish Empire pier mirror c .1810
A beautiful neo- classical pier mirror, with lunette arched top with fan shaded inlay over the original verre eglomise (reverse painted glass) of ‘The Doves of Pliny’, over the original slivered mirror plate and mahogany veneered frame. Original undisturbed pine backboards.
Regency mahogany library table c.1815
A very elegant and useful English Regency period library table / writing desk. The crossbanded rectangular top with inset leather, reeded edge to top, over two good sized drawers to one side and dummy drawers to the reverse, allowing it to stand in the middle of a room.
Pair of Regency spill vases c 1810
A rare pair of English Regency period spill vases, for wax tapers on a mantelpiece. Terrific painted panels and Greek key gilding to the backs.
Mint. c. 1810.
Height 117mm x 95mm diameter.
Price inc GST $SOLD
George III mahogany tea tray c 1790
A terrific quality George III period best mahogany dinner or tea tray. With serpentine rim and well carved shell handles. The same size and type as examples by Gillows of Lancaster. 72cm x 49cm x 6cm
UK c1790
Price inc GST sold
Shark vertebrae fancy stick c 1790 – 1830
A fine sailor made Napoleonic period shark vertebrae fancy stick, for wearing with your best clothes, perhaps on a Sunday
Often made by sailors. French c. 1790 – 1830
Nice original condition.
Length 89cm
Regency rosewood jewel case c 1820
a terrific Regency brass inlaid rosewood jewellery / dressing box c. 1820.
The interior complete, with cut glass bottles with old Sheffield plate lids, the leather and silk jewellery compartments in amazing original state.
34cm x 24cm x 19cm.
A sample of Tasmanian fossilized timber from the Westbury Museum
A rare geographically located lapidary polished sample of fossilized wood from Melton Mowbray in Tasmania, with old collection label, ex Westbury Museum.
Collected c 1900.
Size 18.5cm wide x 12cm high x 9cm deep. Price inc GST $550