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First Quarter 20th Century Chinese Export Hand Carved Precious Stone with Jade, Six Panelled Chinoiserie Black Laquered Folding Screen

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An Important, rare first quarter 20th Century Chinese export hand carved six panelled chinoiserie black laquered folding screen.

Theme from ‘Dream Of The Red Chamber’

Origin Shanghai, China 1920.

Precious stones, including Jade, Ivory, Soap stone and marble.

In exeptional original condition.

7’ x 8’ – 214 cm x 244 cm

As large and heavy as this screen is, I can picture this hung to the centre of a high feature wall in a modern apartment or contemporary home.

 

 

Wide Kilim Hall Rug

‘Ardabil’

North East Iran

Wide Kilim Hall Rug

First half 20th Century

In good sound condition

4.8m x 1.36m

Looking great in my showroom.

$4,500

‘HER KIND’ – HEIDI YARDLEY

‘Her Kind’ Solo Exhibition 31.08.11 to 24.09.11

Her Kind explores 19th century Spiritualism and its influence on the mystical renaissance of the 1960’s. Yardley’s small monochromatic paintings are reminiscent of the earliest forms of photography and its reproduction in postcard format. Suggestions of paranormal activity refer to the Spirit photography invented by William Mumler in 1860 where unexpected lights and apparitions of presumed ghosts sit alongside the living sitters. However, rather than appearing in Victorian costume Yardley’s figures resemble the free living characters of the 1960’s; the hippies, beats, nudists and New Agers. The paintings draw on print material and cinema of the 1960’s occult revival exemplified in the films of Kenneth Anger and Roman Polanski. Figures and scenes emerge luminous out of the inky sepia coloured oil paint paying homage to the paintings and etchings of the Symbolists such as Eugene Carriere and Fransisco Goya.

An Attractive First Quarter 20th Century 12″ Terrestrial Table Globe

By Weber Costello Co. Chicago Heights, Illinois.

I love the steel Art Nouveau stand and the depth of colours to the globe.

Dating this globe is easy, firstly the overall aging and restorations to the globe, then the original Nouveau period stand.

But most interestingly is the names of cities and states around the world in 1925 had been changed.

In 1926 we had ‘Central Australia’ as another state.

This only lasted until 1931.

Constantinople was officially renamed Istanbul in 1930, among other interesting differences.

1925

50 x 30cm

19th Century English Crewel Embroidery of Parrots and a Squirrel within Foliage

19th Century English Crewel embroidery of parrots and a squirrel within foliage.

Good depth in the colours.

Has not been cleaned in many years.

Applied to a later early 20th Century Australian ash stool.

The stool is still in need of minor restorations, a good clean, light polish and wax finish.

H.30cm

W.97cm

D.30cm