A beautiful quality, best mahogany library bookcase in mint condition. With fine ‘Gothick’ glazed doors with original glass, frieze drawer and cupboards below, one fitted with pigeon holes. Identical to published examples by Gillows of Lancaster and London. With well panelled pilasters to the edges and mitred corners to all doors.
Chippendale period gentleman’s chest of drawers c 1770
A fine quality and beautifully patinated English George III period best mahogany chest of drawers with original handles, well shaped ogee form bracket feet and brushing slide set within the top. The corners finely moulded and the whole in beautiful original condition.
Pair French Empire period bronze candelabra c1815
A magnificent pair of French Empire period bronze and gilt bronze three light candelabra. The bases after Greco – Roman paw footed models, with reeded shafts, lotus leaf castings to sconces and flowering honeysuckle ornaments.
Blue John ormolu mounted vase c 1800
A superb quality and rare English George III period lapidary turned vase of exceptionally beautiful pieces of Derbyshire fluorspar (Blue John). Mounted with panels of black Welsh slate, Italian white pentallic marble and gilt bronze. The mounts and conception of form and parts strongly suggest the work of Matthew Boulton of Birmingham.
George III period satinwood Pembroke table c. 1800
A fine quality and beautifully patinated Pembroke table, on West Indian satinwood crossbanded with rosewood. The polychrome decoration original, of a basket of decaying fruit & flowers in the manner of Dutch old masters of the 17th century.
Pagoda top Regency period bracket clock
An excellent quality English Regency period rosewood cased, brass mounted pagoda top bracket clock.
Pair of Irish Regency period vases and covers c.1815
A magificent pair of Irish Regency period cut glass vases and covers, with fan and diamond cutting.
Tasmanian Colonial period exhibition table c.1850
A rare Tasmanian Colonial period native timber exhibition table Hobart c. 1850. Veneered with textbook samples of Huon pine, musk and casuarina, strung with native honeysuckle, on an elegant turned blackwood column and cedar base. Original polish, good colour & condition.
Metamorphic library chair c.1820
An English Regency period metamorphic library chair c.1815 with ‘sabre legs and scroll elbows’. Mahogany with lovely old patina, caned seat and back.
Pair of Anglo Cantonese portraits of flower boat courtesans c. 1840
An extraordinarily rare pair of Anglo Cantonese 3/4 life size portraits of ‘European ladies’ – flower boat courtesans.