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18th Century English Oak Side Table

18th Century English Oak Side Table

The well patinated two plank top, above a long front drawer, having two brass handles.

On four turned, tapered legs, joined by rectangular stretchers, on a slight bun foot.

Good overall colour and patination.

H.70cm W.81cm D.50cm

CSS501

An Exceptional matched Set of Eight Early 19th Century English Triple Bowed Windsor Armchairs

An Exceptional matched Set of Eight Early 19th Century English Triple Bowed Windsor Armchairs

The bowed top rail housing a fret carved central splat and six spindles, with a bowed arm on bold turned supports, above a saddle seat, resting on turned out-swept legs.

All joined by a bowed (crinoline) stretcher.

All having exceptional colour and patination.

Recently restored, re-glued and waxed up in our workshop.

The unusual thing about this Harlequin set, is that they all have the same backs, very rare.

If you look closely you can see the slight variations between the arm supports and legs.

Selling on consignment for a private customer, NO GST.

19th Century French Elm Farmhouse Table on Reeded Turned Tapered Legs

Selling on consignment for private customers – NO GST

19th Century French Elm Farmhouse Table on Reeded Turned Tapered Legs

The beautifully grained three plank figured Elm top, above a plain scratch-moulded frieze, having a single central scratch-moulded drawer, resting on reeded turned tapered legs.

1880-1900

H.73cm W.197cm D.85cm

An unusually high, first half 18th Century French walnut, fruitwood and chestnut serving/centre/side table – CAC750

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An unusually high, first half 18th Century French walnut, fruitwood and chestnut serving/centre/side table. The thick single plank chestnut top above a walnut and fruitwood base, of a deep frieze, with two large cherrywood drawers and an applied moulding, resting on turned tapered walnut legs, joined by a plain side stretcher. Good overall faded colour and patination.

C.1740

H. 85cm W. 154.5cm D. 65cm.

19th Century Continental blue painted dresser CJZ500

19th Century Continental display dresser/sideboard

The moulded cornice above two framed doors, the central fixed. The base having a domed hinged fall-front, opening to reveal a narrow storage compartment, above two rectangular drawers, then two paneled doors, all having steel ringed handles. Resting on plain bracket feet. The well worn blue rustic painted finish has been applied for many years and should be retained.

C.1880

H.203cm W.124cm D.49cm

Style Riches Allpress Antiques

Style Riches Allpress Antiques

Jamie Allpress from Allpress Antiques at Malvern in Melbourne, who specializes in smart English and French city and country style pieces that look simply amazing in many different settings, agrees.

He is a young man with his own children and they are growing up fast, learning to value the past in order to fashion the future.

See article here “Style Riches”

Rosemary Laing -Burning Ayer #6

Rosemary Laing Burning Ayer #6, 2003 Type C Photograph 110.0 x 224.0 cm number 6 from an edition of 10

Provenance Private collection, Melbourne Exhibited ‘one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian Landscape (part 1), Gitte Weise Gallery, Sydney, 2003 ‘‘The unquiet landscapes of Rosemary Laing’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 23 March-5 June 2005

Illustrated This work has been illustrated and the series has been written about extensively including: ‘The unquiet landscapes of Rosemary Laing’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, 2005, illus. p.62-63 Abigail Solomon-Godeau, ‘Rosemary Laing’, Piper Press, Sydney, 2012, illus. p.131

‘For Laing, one’s place as a white Australian artist is inescapably a locus of contradiction and difficulty insofar as the indigenous people have historically been displaced. Or replaced. We find her work is always provisional, tactful, and a self-conscious investigation of her own imperfect belonging to homeland.’ (A.Solomon Godeau, Rosemary Laing, Piper Press, 2012, p. 28)

This is a climactic scene from the series ‘one dozen unnatural disasters in the Australian landscape’ 2003. In the series, spectacularly staged ‘disasters’ disrupt majestic landscape panoramas and Laing’s interventions recast the acts of invasion and colonisation as unnatural disasters; emphatic opposites to natural disasters like bushfire or flood.

The mesmerising image of flames pouring upward from Wirrimanu country near Balgo in Western Australia, has been made in the image of Uluru, with the sacred monolith fashioned from IKEA furniture powder coated in the red desert sand. The funerary pyre of a would-be Ayer’s Rock hints at disaster beyond itself.

Burning Ayer #6 riffs on the postcard trade that promotes Uluru as the essential, ancient Australia to throngs of tourist crowds. Laing takes aim at this sort of de-contextualised, pristine scenic photography that nullifies the contentious history of the site.

Godeau has said that ‘even in her deployment of a medium that freezes time forever, (Laing’s artworks) are concerned with critically mobilising the history of the present.’ So intricately researched, planned and executed are her images that the photographs represent one facet of a much larger sociological process at work beyond the picture plane.

In Defence of Clutter

In Defence of Clutter – Australian Period Home Style Article

Written by Henry Buckenham (Allpress Inc).

Apologies for your misspelt surname in the Article Henry!

Excerpt: We live in a world where clarity, sterility and purpose are the defining features of interior design. Forensic suits and cotton booties have replaced the tradition of shoes off at the door. Clutter has become an ugly word, but when did an appreciation of things become an offence against principles of design?

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A Pencil Drawing of a Rare and Unusual Late 18th Century English Jug.

A Pencil drawing of a rare and unusual late 18th Century English green and white tulip adorned pottery jug. (A.F.)

I sold this jug on consignment a few years ago and have just traded with another jug I have for sale.

Buying, Selling and Trading is all part of the business. Makes life interesting…

My customer that has enjoyed the jug the past few years has drawn this.

Beautiful, thanks Elizabeth.

H. 17.5cm