Small iron handled copper and brass preserving pan Stock CMA801 Small iron handled copper and brass preserving pan (nice for primulas) H: 9 cm W: 36 cm
Kip – Henbury ‘The Seat of Mr John Sampson’ – 1720 Stock CGW381502/1.1 Henbury ‘ The Seat of Mr John Sampson’ First half of 18th Century English hand coloured copper engraving of grand English estates. 1720 54 cm x 76 cm
Melbourne Illustrated – 1880 Stock CGW134453-7 ‘Melbourne Illustrated – Interior of the Reading Room’ The Illustrated London News 13th November 1880 40 cm x 27 cm
17th Century English Oak Livery Cupboard – AA1664 The two sectioned hinged moulded top above a deep arched fielded panelled iron hinged door, surrounded by an unusual deep rectangular moulded frieze, resting on stump moulded feet. Having attractive double panelled sides and beautifully knotted backboards. C. 1680 H: 76 cm W: 60 cm D: 42 cm
“beautiful drawings of objects of virtu” – Mali Moir – 2014 An exciting new project between Jamie Allpress and artist Mali Moir Charcoal drawings of antique pieces 2014
A pair of late 18th Century decorative columns – AA0671A Having appealing overall carving and a good patina. Northen India – towards Rajasthan 1750 – 1780 H: 9’ 3” – 282 cm
An exceptional rare early 19th Century English elm writing bureau – AA1896 The gallery moulded top and lifting lid above a four short and three long slight graduated drawers, resting on bun feet. Having a fantastic overall faded colour and patination. With later but appropriate brasswork. C. 1820 H: 88 cm W: 82 cm D: 43.5 cm
Mali Moir – Lotus Australian native – 2009 Common name: Lotus Australian native Scientific name: Nelumbo nucifera Water colour on Lana 100% cotton paper. 85 cm x 61 cm (unframed) 129 cm x 99 cm (framed) $8,900 Note: This subject is painted life size from samples grown by Blue Lotus Nursery Vic.
One from a harlequin set of eight English Country chippendale dining chairs One from a harlequin set of eight English Country chippendale dining chairs all of ash, elm and fruitwood. I build this set gradually, cleaned and wax finished each the same and used the same fabric on each drop in seat to bring them in as a set. Harlequin sets of chairs cost considerably less than a matching set as sets are very scarce and sell for between $15,000 – $30,000. Individual chairs sell between $1,200 -$1,800 and if matched well can look better than a complete matching set. This set has been in our home for the last decade.
Iava Maior (Java Major) Map by John van Linschoten – 1598 – CDS700 Woodblock on page of text from ‘Iohn Huighen van Linschoten his discours of Voyages into ye Easte & West Indies’, (London 1598). A map based on Portuguese charts, from the first English edition of van Linschoten’s ‘Itinerario: Voyages ofte schipvaert van Jan Huyghen van Linschoten naer Ooost ofte Portugaels Indien’, 1579-1592 (1596). Van Linschoten was a Dutchman who had spent a lengthy period in Portuguese service in Goa. In gathering and publishing higherto unknown information and maps relating to the Spice Islands, he enabled the Dutch and English to challenge the Portuguese monopoly in the East Indies. The placenames on the maps in van Linschoten’s work are in Portuguese, and the last section is a brief history of Portugal, suggesting the possiblity that van Linschoten had perhaps obtained a manuscript copy of the Portuguese geographer Barros’ fabled, incomplete and unpublished work, ‘Treatise on Geography’.
Mr Nathl Oldham – 1730 Mr Nathl Oldham Mezzotint by John Faber published 1730-50. Nathanial Oldham of Middlesex was a noteworthy character who served with the British Army in India and ‘inherited a fortune which allowed him to indulge his love of field sports and fine art’ (Tate Gallery). The print by Faber is after an oil by Highmore, which is now lost, Highmore and Oldham enjoying a friendship described as ‘very intimate’ (Einberg Edgerton, p. 48). Oldham was a compulsive collector, he spent his vast fortune assembling a variety of objects including natural history specimens which early reports describe as ‘whimsical gimcracks’ rather than articles of merit to men of knowledge and science. His love for curiosities bankrupted him, and despite auctioning off his collection in 1747 was sent to the King’s Bench prison where he died in debt. John Faber the younger moved to England from Holland at a young age and studied engraving under his father, also John Faber. He became well known for his fine quality mezzotint portraits, completing about 165 in his lifetime. The portrait of Oldham, after the lost oil painting, shows the eccentric gentleman out shooting with a male companion and his loyal dog. It is probably set on his estate at Ealing, where Oldham resided from 1728-1735. Mezzotint: a manner of engraving on copper by scraping a roughened surface to produce light and shade. 61 cm x 80 cm (framed)
A rare suite of early 19th Century Regency period watercolours of Indian birds – AA1830 Nineteen exquisite ornithological subjects, painted by a visitor to the sub-continent in the 1820’s. The representations are anatomically correct and accurate in scale, yet all of these finely executed watercolours – by an unknown but clearly gifted artist – manage to display strong individual character, painstakingly cut as silhouettes and laid down on eleven contemporary folio album pages (510 x 290 mm each) in the style of decoupage, all but three of the specimens with an accompanying contemporary manuscript label cut and pasted onto the page beside it, all the illustrations in an excellent state of preservation, the colours still vibrant, the paper stable, some residual tape marks to corners and margins of the sheets which do not detract, one of the captions identifying a location (Bellary, in Karnataka, southwest India) and a date (January 1828). The manuscript labels read as follows: Black-headed Oriole Mango bird. Lark. Alanda sp. The birds appear in October in immense flocks and depart in March – often mistaken for Ortolans.Plover. Water Wagtail. Eagle. Shot at Bellany Jan 1828. Breadth from Wing to Wing 6 feet. Half size. Falco Sp. Chysactos. Spur Foul: Tetrao sp. Partridge. Short tail Tern. Water Wagtail. Bansputtah or Bamboo Frequenter. Common Florican. Stone Chat. Malacilla Rubicola. Three-toed Quail (male and female). Golden Oriole. Female. Golden Oriole. Male. Grey Shrike. Female. Lanius Sinerius. Framed by Vicki Hutchins.
David Rabb – CGW134471/5 David Rabb – 1914 -1995 A drawing of a nude. Signed. Studied in New York in the 1930’s. Art Master at Scots College and Knox Grammar. Art tutor for Brett Whiteley.
Draakestein – ‘Pua-tsjetti’ – 1686 ‘Pua-tsjetti’ Hortus Indicus Malabaricus Hendrik Draakestein The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of hand coloured copper engraving. Amsterdam 1686
[MAP] Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen – CDS750 Ins Kleine gebrachte Karte von den Sud-Landern zur Historie der Reisen Bellin, Jacques Nicholas [Leipzig], 1753. Copperplate engraving, 205 x 275 mm, original folds, mild browning to left margin, otherwise fine. The scarce German version of Bellin’s map of Australia, Carte reduite des terres Australes. The projected eastern coastline joins the charted territories on Van Dieman’s Land and Carpentaria. First published in Prevost’s L’Histoire Generale des Voyages in the same year, editions in German, Danish and Dutch editions soon followed. Not in Tooley (although cf. Tooley 156/157/157a for French, Dutch and Danish editions); Clancy 6.28.
First half 19th Century English sycamore dairy bowl Stock CHD702 First half 19th Century English sycamore dairy bowl. H: 12 cm Dia: 35 cm