A rare George II oak dresser base - UK1907

A rare George II oak dresser base – UK1907

The two planked moulded top, above three fielded frieze drawers, having brass fret shaped handles and eschutcheons, raised on silhouette cut-baluster supports.

The interesting straight lines and clever silhouette shaped legs can place this in a complete modern setting or as a stand out entrance piece.

H: 79 cm W: 181 cm D: 47 cm

C.1740

A rare mid 18th Century English oak dresser base, Midlands - UK1879

A rare mid 18th Century English oak dresser base, Midlands – UK1879

Three planked moulded top, above three friezed doors having decorative brass handles, raised on silhouette-baluster profile legs to front and side.

In thirty years of trading and forty years in the antiques trade,I have never stocked a dresser with silhouette legs. Even more unusual is that I now own two! Both from the same retiring English dealer that I purchased one dozen from. Actually my largest single purchase in my thirty years of business.

I’m moving into an apertment soon and am planing to take several dressers, one will have silhouette legs..

Fantasic original condition.

C.1740

H:73 cm W:179 cm D:48.5 cm

A rare mid 18th Century English elm low dresser - UK1787

A rare mid 18th Century English elm low dresser – UK1787

A rare mid 18th Century English elm low dresser, having an applied rear plate. Above an attractive ogee cut apron housing three field frieze drawers with brass swan neck handles raised on long cabriole legs terminating on a pad foot, ownership initial on one. I photographed the original single plank ‘adze’ finished backboard, as it is outstanding! (I could look at it all day)

Adze: form of an axe in which the blade is set at a right angle to the handle, used for dressing timber. Required skill. To use the cutting adze requires standing astride or on top of the log to be hewn.

Note: 35 years in the trade and this is only the second elm dresser I have stocked, as elm being such a soft timber rarely survives in such good condition.

C. 1750

H:87 W: 209 cm 50 cm

A George III English oak dresser base - UK1796

A George III English oak dresser base – UK1796

A George III English oak dresser base

Having a central moulded drawer above an arched fielded cupboard door embraced either side by a bank of three drawers and slender cut corner pilasters on nice bracket feet.
Note: This dresser is still in need of a good clean and wax.

H: 75.5 cm

W: 202 cm

D: 54 cm

An unusual late 18th Century English oak dresser base - UK1789

An unusual late 18th Century English oak dresser base – UK1789

An unusual well panelled late 18th Century English oak dresser base. With three raised fielded drawers above a pair of central fixed fielded panels, flanked to either side by a conforming cupboard door, on extended stile supports. 1780 – 1800 H:82 cm W:186.5 cm D.48cm

Barrelier (unframed collection) - 1714 - CGW381542

Barrelier (unframed collection) – 1714 – CGW381542

Hand coloured botanical engravings by Jacques Barrelier. A French botanist, Barrelier was born in Paris 1606 and died 17th September 1673. He renounced the medical profession to enter the Dominican order. In 1646 he was selected as assistant of the general of the order on one of his tours of inspection, travelled through France, Spain and Italy, collected numerous specimens of plants and also founded and superintended a splendid garden in a convent of his order at Rome, where he remained for many years. He afterward returned to Paris and entered the convent in the rue St Honore. He left unfinished a general history of plants, to be entitled Hortus Mundi. The copperplates of his intended work and such of his papers as could be found, were collected and made the basis of a book by Antonine de Jus-sieu, Plantae per Galliam, Hispaniam et Itali-iam obwervatae, etc. (folio, Paris, 1714).

33 cm x 21 cm (unframed)

Munting Collection (unframed) - 1696

Munting Collection (unframed) – 1696

Abraham Munting, Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardewassen

Fine copper engravings with later hand colouring. Florilegiums (Botanical works) of this period were produced in the main for scientific studies and research and usually illustrated just the plant itself. What makes Muntings work stand apart is the fashion in which he displayed his speciments (usually) floating above a landscape or village scene. Not satisfied with that, he had the name of the plant within a floating banner.

C. 1696

39 cm x 26 cm (unframed)

Munting Selection (unframed) - 1696

Munting Selection (unframed) – 1696

Abraham Munting, Naauwkeurige Beschryving Der Aardewassen. Fine copper engravings with later hand colouring. Florilegiums (Botanical works) of this period were produced in the main for scientific studies and research and usually illustrated just the plant itself. What makes Muntings work stand apart is the fashion in which he displayed his speciments (usually) floating above a landscape or village scene. Not satisfied with that, he had the name of the plant within a floating banner.

1696

Champion Animals - Mali Moir 2014

Champion Animals – Mali Moir 2014

‘New Works in Smokey Charcoal’

The A1 size unframed drawings are $3,300

The A2 size unframed drawings are $2,200

105.5 cm x 92 cm (A1 framed of Dash)

I have recently developed a strong interest in creating portraits of horses and hounds in a sophisticated and contemporary art style, exploring dynamic compositions and using the impressive qualities of charcoal. I am engaging in a technicque called ‘sfumato’ where the subjects edges are softly blended imparting an intriguing smoky effect.

I have included examples of my new charcoal artwork collaboration with Allpress Antiques in Melbourne, creating charcoal art inspired by ‘Objects of Virtue’.

This first example of my work is of the much loved whippet ‘Dash’.

Mali Moir
Botanical, Scientific and Natural History Artist.