Chinese school. Quan Yin on Lotus Flower Sculpture
20th century Vintage Blanc de Chine Quan Yin Figurine.
Quan Yin Lotus White Porcelain Buddhist, standing on lotus flower on waves.
H.31cm
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19th century Blanc-de Chine figure of Quan Yin, Qing Dynasty
China 1880
H.36cm
She stood in my apartment for the past ten years & brought much good luck!
Changing my displays, so selling.
19th century Qing Dynasty carved ivory
A well carved 19th century Qing Dynasty carved ivory mountain village scene, gathering to drink tea.
The spiral stairs are impressive.
25.7cm
Changing my art around today..
And selling a few pieces to another dealer, this beautiful pair of bronze sculptures with figured elm bowls being one.
Thought I’d hang the large Oil Painting on canvas, “Posh Girl” with Badminton racket, 1891, Thomas Faed.
Thomas Faed. Scotland. 1826 – 1900. (Needing a few touch ups)
With a couple of unusual late 19th century lithographs dedicated to the palm family.
ALLPRESS :: MOIR Birds Revisited
Image references from Jamie’s book of birds. ‘Birds. The Art of Ornithology’
Watercolour on 100% Arches cotton paper.
~50 x 63cm rough cut ‘deckle’ edges.
One great thing about working from a warehouse is, playing one of my top 10 favourite albums all day, today was,
Splendor Solis, The Tea Party. So many of my favourite songs on this album, especially “The River”
I’ve been blessed to see The Tea Party many times over the past 25 plus years. I’ve taken my children and many very special friends, even wonderful Niko for his first ever concert ✨
A few years ago I booked five tickets for myself, Allie, James, Charlie & Luke,
Went to check the date, had already been!!! One of the bummers re shisen memory!
Charlie, Luke and I saw Jeff Martin (lead singer) at the Brunswick Ballroom recently. So many special memories. I’m truly blessed…
You’re welcome to call into my warehouse one day, enjoy a coffee (my shout) seeing beautiful antiques & art and play some amazing music together…
I’m not your usual antique/art dealer.
Some of my lighting, now available at Moonee Ponds Antiques
Video to come
When I closed shop last June, I sold all of my lighting to one dealer, Michael Snook – Moonee Ponds Antiques.
Was a true blessing, as I didn’t have to pack and re hang. Michael’s new showroom is 49 Hawker Street, Airport West.
If you’re looking for any chandeliers, Italian Murano, 19th century French, Dutch electroliers, wall sconces,
decorative lamps, or decorative 19th century French furniture, go see Michael.
19th century French cherrywood Louis XV ‘style’ dining table of unusually large proportions.
The wide four plank book-matched figured cherry wood top, above a serpentine shaped moulded skirt, resting on long stylish cabriole legs.
Arrived to storeroom today. Needs a little touching out of minor damages and a good overall wax.
20th Century
H.76 W.335 D.113cm
14 seater. 6 well sized chairs to each side.
About as deep as I’d go on a dining table. Any larger and you’re too far away from each other.
The best 17th century English oak refectory table Australia has seen.
The beautifully patinated thick single plank cleated top, Above a plain moulded frieze, resting on baluster-turned legs, joined by the original worn side stretchers. Fantastic overall patina, with the initials T.A.S 19/7/13 to one end. Which century 1713, 1813 or 1913. Fascinating when you sit and think about this. 1660 – 1700 All stock reduced by 50% $28,500 reduced to $14,250 H.77cm W.212cm D.81cm Note, the Carters Price Guide featuring this table and other pieces will be given when sold. A re-purchase I sold over 20 years ago. Even though retiring soon, it’s impossible to not buy these magnificent pieces back. A few snaps of my showroom last year, while Russell Winnell’s photographing the Caravaggio, so threw this together first. This important 17th century English oak refectory table. My photos don’t suffice! Sold this to a close friend 2002 and bought back recently, along with a few other pieces, several already sold. 17th century art hanging from 1606, 1609, 1613, 1686, 2024 Both mirrors 19th century. Text or call Jamie 0415555998 for information.
A Unique 19th Century Australian Cedar and Blackwood Tilt Top Breakfast or Dining Table – CAB500
I acquired this rare Australian table years ago, 2004, about the time a grilled cheese sandwich in the US, resembling Jesus sold for $28,000.
I thought what the?
I saw an Aboriginal elder inside a piece of Australian cedar!
I had Russell Winnell photograph the table in great detail and featured at a Sydney antique fair. I returned to Melbourne and forgot about until now.
Take a close look and tell me what you think?
A unique 19th Century Australian cedar and blackwood tilt top breakfast or dining table.
The well patinated circular tilt top above a turned support and lower turned finial resting on carved cabriole legs with claw feet and the original brass and porcelain castors.
H: 2’ 5” – 73 cm
C: 3’ 12” – 120 cm
Note: The underside of the top revealing a section of knotted grain giving the impression of the side facial profile of an Aboriginal male elder.
19th-century Chinese export side/sewing tables
Mali Moir – WW1 Waler with Bradshaw 1915 – Charcoal
Mali Moir – WW1 Waler with Bradshaw 1915 – Charcoal
Our collective pride of the ledgendary Australian Light Horse is immense.
Austalia sent more than 120,000 horses overseas during the first world war, only one returned.
Walers began as a nickname for ‘New South Waler’s where horse breeding began by Early Settlers using several imported breeds.
The selective breeding program of our great Australian Waler had similar principles as Isaac Asimovs first law of robotics, ‘thou shall not harm a human’.
“This painting was inspired through the ABC radio interveiw by Richard Fiddler on Janet Lane and Ros Sexton’s quest to save the Waler.
The astonishing quality of Waler’s became apparent and my deep admiration and respect for both soldiers and horses was immediate.
During the drawing process of this artwork, I listened to over thirty hours on the history of WW1, I am sorry to say I was mostly unaware of the intensity and horror of this ‘war to end all wars’.”
This wonderful piece of art is for sale.
I look forward to seeing where this piece will sit and shine bright.
Mali Moir
Charcoal on canvas
H 1.8m W 1.4m
Newly restored, Rare last quarter 19th century American figured walnut ‘National Cabinet Letter File’
With roll-down tambour door, in similar fashion to an American Cutler Roll Top Desk.
Water soaked and smoke damaged in customers recent warehouse fire.
This has been another joy to restore and another first for Eddie and I.
It’s fantastic after 48 years in the trade from a child, this is the first one I’ve worked on.
One drawer was badly damaged, the thick veneers to each side of the floor had buckled, as had sat for weeks before we received.
Eddie took the drawer home and repaired there. A couple of the last photos show before and afters.
I removed the water damage and re french polished, colouring where needed during the process. Once I was satisfied, I then cut back the high shine and soft wax finished. Now restored, yet seeming beautifully maintained over the centuries.
Originally these letter files sat on a four legged base to bring to desk height. The reading slide with angled space to support your read.
Everything reduced by 60% to clear all…
I can’t take it with me.
40 relief chromo lithographs of English fern leaves, having raised print on branches.
C.1870
23cm x 15cm
“Picasso Toros Y Toreros” Editions Published by Cercle d’ Art, Paris 1961
I recently contacted my friend and European art supplier and have purchased the last Picasso’s he had.
Unframed limited edition lithographs
Printed in France
73 cm x 58 cm
Early 20th Century Australian Photo Lithograph of Melbourne Treasury Building
In a beautiful birds eye maple frame.
1900
62.5 cm x 63
A Collection of Rare Mid 19th Century French, Hand Coloured Wood Engravings
Watercolours and vegetable dye inks.
1855 France
‘Goody Two Shoes, Aladdin & The Yellow Dwarf’
From the best wood engraver of the 19th century.
Artist-Designer Walter Crane (1845-1915)
Printed and Engraved by Edmund Evans (1826-1905)
Extremely rare.
28x23cm – 45x27cm
Willughby Fish – Mola Salu – 1680
Francis Willughby (1635-1672)
From the first large work on fishes in England, marking a new era in ichthyology that clearly described and classified fishes according to nature and based on their characteristics drawn only from their structure.
Framed H. 46.5 cm W. 49 cm
Natural History – Dumond D’ Urville
Insectes Coleopetres by C.E. Blanchard
Hand coloured steel engravings of beetle specimens from Ambon (Moluccas), New Zealand and Tonga.
From the Atlas volume of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage au Pole Sud et dans I’Oceanie sur les Corvettes I’Astrolabe et la Zelee, pendant les annees, 1837-40 (Paris’ Hombron et Jacquinot, 1842)
The Exercise of Armes – de Gheyn
An important and early work on military arms commissioned by Maurice of Orange
1607
“Divini Amoris Embelata”
Otto Van Veen also so known as Octavius Vaenius (1556-1629)
A Dutch painter and humanist who is well known for his Emblem books.
1615
Longmate – Seals of Nobility & Great Men of Scotland
Guache hand coloured medallion engravings
75 cm x 57 cm
All stock reduced by 60% to clear
I have over 100 framed botanicals, engravings, paintings, charcoals, oils, watercolours, drawings, also many unframed.
I’ll remain in this warehouse for under one year now, so I’ve reduced everything by 60% to clear all…
I can’t take it with me.
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Pair of 17th century botanical engravings by Jan Jansson
Hand coloured in walnut frames
Leuconium & Hyacinth
Framed 63 x 47cm
Below, Early 19th century English oak lowboy.
The three plank top above a deep moulded ogee-shaped frieze, with stepped narrow drawers with brass drop handles to the front.
Resting on slender turned legs, joined by a bold central “H” stretcher.
C.1800
H.74cm W.90cm D.65cm
Original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell
‘A Curious Herbal’ 1737
The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World.
Unusual late 19th century lithographs dedicated to the palm family.
Finished by hand in watercolour.
A rare collection of 18th – 19th century floral hand coloured copper engravings.
From an illustrated publication which began in 1787.
ALLPRESS :: MOIR Birds Revisited
Watercolour on 100% Arches cotton paper.
rough cut ‘deckle’ edges.
50 x 63cm
Fifteen early 20th century Japanese water coloured woodblock prints.
By Tanigami Konan
The work celebrates the seasons so there is a wide variety of both native Japanese plants and many from the Western World.
Seiyo Soda Tofu (Pictorial Book of Western Flowers) 1917
One of Three bright, attractive Sunflower paintings, recently found in my storeroom.
Second fire/water damaged piece restored for customers.
A lot of time spent on this piece, the glass was harder to clean than the oak!
Retaining the variations on the base finish is always most important, otherwise over restoration to me destroys everything.
Notice the wax finish showing 160 years of built up colour and patination, stripping removes all of this and generally costs more!
Always happy once completed, as were my customers ✨
Description of this revival period,
19th-century French Henri II style display bookcase.
Also known as Henri II Revival or Neo-Renaissance, was a popular furniture and architectural style that reimagined the artistic achievements of the French Renaissance, particularly the reign of King Henri II (1547–1559).
Emerging strongly during the reign of Louis-Philippe and flourishing during the Second Empire (1852–1870) and into the Third Republic, it reflected a desire to reconnect with a period of national artistic glory.
The 19th-century revival period was based on the original Henri II style, which was characterized by Gallicized Italian Mannerism, influenced by the First School of Fontainebleau.
The original period was a golden age of French architecture, with châteaux such as Écouen and Chantilly being key examples.
Third quarter 19th century revival period. Same in England and all around the world, including Australia and New Zealand.
We had more of a Jacobean revival period. Second half 19th century, then again after the Art Nouveau period, 1920s was a huge Jacobean revival.
Personally, I’d had stuck with Art Nouveau then flowed into Art Deco.
Nothing really stood out again until the 60s – 70s retro period, that’s had a huge revival over the past 17 years.
A day at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Mid August 2017 I had the immense pleasure of spending a day at the Louvre Museum in Paris, France, with my daughter Allie.
There’s so much to remember of the day, more beauty than I’ve ever witnessed at one time in my life. This magnificent marble sculpture was one of my favourites, so I thought to share here.
By Italian artist Antonio Canova between 1787 and 1793.
The white marble sculpture captures the exact second Cupid awakens the lifeless Psyche with a kiss, restoring her to life after she was plunged into a deep sleep.
immense skill in making stone appear soft and lifelike.
I look forward to spending much more time in Europe in years to come, certainly re visiting this masterpiece once again.
Being a classic aesthete, I could spend years in Europe and never tire of the architecture, art, museums, even the roads, footpaths, walls and trees.
Incredible beauty everywhere 
Vintage European hand blown imperfect glass vase.
Vintage European hand blown imperfect glass vase
H.33cm Dia 30cm
Included in my half price retirement SALE
$280 reduced to $140