Mixed media (oil on low saturation printed canvas, the print simply acts as a sketch). The original watercolour painting is a life size depiction of an endemic Australian lily named Doryanthes Palmeri.
This painting won the Focus on Nature Purchase Award in 2006, the first Australian artist to do so. It is now part of a permanent collection of the New York State Museum, USA
A decorative early 20th Century French teak library ladder.
A good height with beautiful patina of varnishes, polishes and waxes. With original brass treads and appealing long brass hand rail, on a steel mount, with a turned teak wooden knob.
An interesting 19th Century English printed ship’s davenport.
The brass turned finial gallery above a hinged writing slope with ‘H.M.S. Bellerophan’ painted. The front panel having an anchor and English flag, and the left side dated ‘1815 A.D.’, housing three painted drawers. The right side having a crown and the initials ‘G. III R.’, and the rear panel having ‘Royal Navy’. (Restorations)
An Outstanding Early 19th Century English standing mortar. The original white marble, well worn mortar inserted to an incredible thick piece of turned elm. (Imagine the lathe) Also having a thick iron band to the top with natural splits and knots overall.
Mid to late 19th Century Australian carved sandstone water trough.
Carved sometime in the 1800’s, it was used as a horse water trough outside the stables of a property called “Mount Morriston” at Ross in the days when there were teams of draught horses. When draught horses were no longer needed it was used as a water trough in the shearing shed paddock up until about 1985 when it was moved into the garden at the homestead outside the front door and used for plants. Then moved to Mt Eliza and used for the same purpose.
