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The beauty of Green or My Love Affair With Green šŸ’š

Continually adding pieces from my private collection to my shop stock and noticing how fast they sell. Many of my customers share my tasteāœØ
The wonderful Green Majolica plate I took from my cupboard at home (not easy) was like it was glued to my shelf!
Included in my display and sold. I remember driving back from selling customers perfect pieces for their home in Carramut, Western District, parked outside a dealerā€™s closed shop, rang him and waited while he drove to his shop to sell to me. Iā€™ve so loved this piece.
Having a half price 50% off sale helped Iā€™m sure.
The Joy Peck painting also sold while I was taking these photos (touches of green)
And the Portuguese Cabbage Ware Tureen with ladle and under plate sold too.

All Armoire and Buffet Deux Corps are reduced by 50%

Clearing space for final months of trade.

Late 18th Century French Chestnut Armoire
H.223cm W.126cm D.64cm

Rare 18th Century French Solid Yew Wood Armoire
H.230cm W.135cm D.60cm

Late 18th Century French Oak Armoire
H.241cm W.160cm D.70cm

First half 18th Century provincial walnut dresser/buffet & rack
H.232cm W.126cm D.64cm

18th Century French faded Buffet Deux Corps
H.238cm W.136cm D.50cm

18th Century French Oak Buffet Deux Corps
H.230cm W.120cm D.50cm

Elizabeth Blackwell. A Curious Herbal. 1737 – 1739.

Such a fascinating, gifted woman from the early 18th century. Certainly one of my top five botanical engravers in history.
Iā€™ve sold many of her pages over the past four decades.
Having recently purchased several copies of a re print of ā€œA Curious Herbalā€ I decided to give a copy with each sale of an original Blackwell until all copies are gone.

Look under ā€œWorks of Artā€ – ā€œBotanicalsā€ or scroll through my instagram page to see my latest unframed Blackwell arrivals

 

Hortus Indicus Malabaricus by Hendrik Draakestein 1686.

The first complete flora from the East Indies. A very fine example of copper engraving.

My favourite botanical master of the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
1686 ā€˜Hortus Indicusā€™ was published in Amsterdam.

ALLPRESS :: MOIR Birds Revisited

Today Mali Moirā€™s most recent magical works arrived.
Iā€™m doing this quick post, including a brief showcase of our working history and friendship over the years.

Image references from Jamieā€™s book of birds. ā€˜Birds. The Art of Ornithologyā€™

Watercolour on 100% Arches cotton paper.
~50 x 63cm rough cut ā€˜deckleā€™ edges.

 

22 x original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell 1730

Arrived in showroom recently, one of the largest botanical collections Iā€™ve purchased at one time.

Original hand coloured copper engravings by Elizabeth Blackwell 1730

ā€˜A Curious Herbalā€™ was published between 1737 and 1739.

The book contained the first illustrations of many odd-looking, unknown plants from the New World.

64.5 cm x 51.5 cm

Instagram video

 

Enjoying some old posts on my website from over a decade ago.

Thatā€™s whatā€™s so special dealing in rare one off pieces of furniture and art.

Sometimes I repost sold items as theyā€™re worth sharing.

Karl Blossfeldtā€™s photogravures 1929

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We are pleased to offer these superb photogravures from Karl Blossfeldtā€™s rare and beautiful work, Urformen der Kunst (Archetypes of Art), 1929.

Blaeu – Le Theatre du Monde, Nouvel Atlas – 1647 – CGW134472/2

ā€œLe Theatre du Monde, Nouvel Atlasā€, Title Pages by Joan Blaeu, Dutch cartographer (1596 – 1673)

ā€œNouvel Atlasā€ was a comprehensive world atlas, conceived by Willem Blaeu, but compiled by his son Joan Blaeu, and completed in 1665. The original work consisted of eleven volumes, in Latin, containing 594 maps.

Blaeu was one of the greatest names in early map making. The Blaeu business flourished for over 40 years in the city of Amsterdam. When Willem died in 1638 his sons Johannes and Cornelis took over the business.

Original hand colouring.

 

Last one remaining, all others in photos have sold.

30 cm x 50 cm

Beautiful pieces of art within my showroom. Over 150 framed and many dozens of unframed 16th – 19th century European and Japanese botanicals.

17th century fish 1680. 1930 oil of Anne Bonney, an 18th century Irish pirate, painted by Raymond Lindsay (son)
One of collection of framed watercolours of birds 1827. Various nudes. Portrait of English gentleman, resembling Captain Cook.
Italian school portrait of a Roman dignitary. One of a collection of Picassoā€™s, Le Chat. One of many 17th century English maps. Victorian landscape by G Pillig 1940s.
Scottish highlands. A bright Margaret Tarrant. Napoleon hand coloured lithograph. 19th century NZ landscape.
Soldier 1607 – de Gheyn & Soldier 19th century.
Charcoal of a kitten by Mali Moir,
Exceptional Australian artist and close friend.

See more of her works on my website under Contemporary Art also many in Archives.