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An Unusual 19th Century Flemish Bronze Electrolier

An Unusual 19th Century Flemish Bronze Twelve Branch Electrolier, having two equal tiers

This electrolier was originally made to house candles. We cleaned and wired, following the branch lines to hide the modifications.

H. 89cm Dia. 70cm

Can be hung lower with the chain

1880 – 1920

Wired to Australian Standards

An Unusual First Half 20th Century Italian Maria Therese Six Branch Crystal Chandelier

Re selling for a customer.

An Unusual First Half 20th Century Italian Maria Therese Six Branch Crystal Chandelier

This chandelier is unusual as it doesn’t have a central column. The joined frame supports all rather than a central column with branches.

All chandeliers can be hung to any height by adjusting the lenght of the chain.

Restored and rewired to Australian Standards

H. 115 cm with chain H. 78 cm chandelier Dia. 75 cm

Clearing stock for new shipments $5,500 now $4,500

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.