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Stock AA0854
Atlas of the settled Counties & Districts of Victoria
F.E. Hiscocks & Co.s
Published by George Robertson, Melbourne
Published 1874
H: 44.5 cm W: 30.5 cm
Note: Several pages have been removed and framed some time ago. Not my doing.
Stock AA1218
‘Melbourne in Winter’
Oil on Canvas
1980s
Valerie Marie Therese O’Neill
14/9/1929 – 8/8/2010
Valerie was born on the 14 September 1929. She grew up in Wright Street, Middle Park, and attended the Brigidine Convent, Kilbride, on Beaconsfield Parade.
As a young women she demonstrated prodigious artistic talent and studied under Archie and Amalie Colquhoun, contemporaries of Max Meldrum and later, at the National Gallery School under Sir William Dargie, eight times winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture.
Stock AA0692
‘Morning Light’
by
Catherine Harris
Beenial Farm, Beenail Road, Hoddles Creek
Oil on canvas
1984
61 cm x 88 cm $1,250
Stock CBC0199
A 20th Century Australian oil on canvas depicting an unusual slave market with naked white slaves. Painted by a student from the Norman Lindsay School.
“Slave Market”
Signed by Jay D.
After Napier Waller? Norman Lindsay?
C.1930
A rare and unusual 20th Century Australian blackwood Art Nouveau period plant stand.
The four circular and oval fiddleback blackwood shelves, supported by octagonal tappered lower outswept legs.
19th Century English Elm Half Gallon Bentwood dry Measure
A single slice of Elm, steamed into an overlapping circle, held together by handmade nails.
Having the original poplar floor.
Stamped ENR 567.
Still in need of a clean and wax.
H. 16cm Dia. 16cm
The moulded cantered hinged top, having a deep leaf carved Oak centre plaque, lifting to reveal a silk-lined interior (once divided).
A hinged mirror opening to reveal a burgundy leatherette storage area.
The base having Gothic style carvings overall, resting on rectangular block feet, having the original inverted steel rotating castors.
1860 – 1890 H. 86cm W. 45cm D. 39cm Box dimensions: Depth 16 cm L. 27cm W. 33cm
19th Century Metal Hand Warmer and Incense Burner
Fine antique metal handled hand warmer (Baitong) and incense burner with floral pierced cover
Fine condition
These make attractive incense holders or potpourri containers
L. 21 cm W. 16 cm D. 12 cm
An unusual rectangular 19th Century European Satinwood trinket box with original attractive fabric within.
Late 19th/early 20th Century Italian gold-tooled Leather Correspondence Box
A 19th Century English root of oak snuff box. The beautifully knotted hollowed oak having two double hinged silver plated lids below.
H: 19 cm W: 12 cm
A rare first half 19th Century oak snuff box. Engraving reads: “Made of one of the foundation Piles of Old London Bridge. Built AD1209. Taken up 1832”
H: 2.5 cm Diameter: 7.5 cm
A rare complete set of first half 20th Century, French ceramic spice lidded containers.
Comprising: 6 large containers, 6 small containers, vinegar and oil jars.
Stock CMP0600
George III Oak Deed Box, having a hinged top and three locks. Resting on a plinth base.
C. 1770
H. 25 cm
W. 43 cm
D. 23 cm
Exceptional large desktop sculpture of two terns in flight above cresting waves 1935 by the acclaimed French animal sculptor Irénée Rochard (1906-1984).
Crisply cast in spelter with good detail (note the feathers and feet) and a bronze coloured finish, on an oval black marble plinth base.
Signed clearly ‘Rochard’. Excellent original condition. Note the two birds detach from the wave for delivery.
Height: 60cm Width 82cm Depth: 46cm
20th Century French Deco bronze, signed S. Melani, of a well toned Archer on a marble base.
1925.
Salvatore Melani (1902-1934).
H. 45 W. 60 D. 20cm.