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SUPERB EARLY INCISED PARRYING SHIELD, DARLING RIVER REGION, NEW SOUTH WALES, Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (no custom stand) Early nineteenth century. Parrying Shield of bi-convex section and elongated triangular profile, with solid cut handle, showing beautifully carved sections of chevron and linear motifs emphasised by the surrounding smooth surface, terminating with undecorated bosses on the upper and lower face. Approx L80 x 13cm. PROVENANCE Dr Gerald Holt Collection H319 Lord McAlpine Collection Private collection, France Private collection, Sydney
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Antique Chemist shop two height shop cabinet. The Base fitted with 28 named various size drawers, and open three cupboard sections below. The drawer fronts all fitted with glass pulls. The Top with three glazed sliding doors and mirrored back, approx 200cm H x 193cm W, 25cm D
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Finely engraved scrimshaw, titled Boatheads, three mast ship in a polar landscape, signed G Tonkin, approx 13 cm L
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Italian Piaggio Ape 50 4540z in blue, 50 cc, circa 1996, unknown working order and sold as is. Not registered. Great display piece. Approx 246cm L x 122cm W x 160cm H
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Fine LARGE Maori Feast Bowl probably carved by Anaha Te Rahui (1822-1913), New Zealand. Carved and engraved wood with haliotis shell inlay. Large spherical bowl with fitted lid flanked by seated attendant figures on either side and the bowl and lid carved in high relief with a series of tiki faces with haliotis shell eyes (mostly missing) inset, the whole elaborately carved in Rauponga scrollwork motifs, aged deep dark brown patina. The offered bowl is so idiosyncratic in style and treatment that it can be attributed to the carver Anaha Te Rahui. Throughout his long life Anaha Te Rahui saw many changes in Maori culture, and as an artist, his work evolved with the times. Roger Neich has written extensively on the woodcarvers of Ngati Tarawhai (2001). According to Neich, ‘although he almost certainly never worked with stone tools, Anaha was the last of the old Ngati Tarawhai canoe builders. By the time the large carved house building movement got under way, Anaha was already in late middle age and well established as the chief to Ngati Tarahwai. He enjoyed wide contacts with many prominent Europeans and experienced European education through his children, and from his work in the courts. He was literate in Maori. ...Anaha was clearly very much a man of his people, a great leader and certainly not an alienated artist.’ See Neich (2001: figure 15.25) for a another bowl attributed to Anaha Te Rahui as well as a listing of other documented works by the artist. Approx L60cm, B36cm, H43.5cm. PROVENANCE Cornelius Pieter Meulendijk Collection, Rotterdam. Christies London, The Meulendijk Collection - Lot 243, October 21st. 1980. John Magers Collection, Sydney.
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FINE EARLY LEANGLE CLUB, WESTERN VICTORIA, carved and engraved hardwood (no custom stand) The Leangle club which was distinctive of the western Victoria area. These were considered to be the most lethal of all clubs, as their sharply pointed heads could reach around the narrow parrying shields. Approx L68 x 27cm. PROVENANCE Private collection, Queensland
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Rare antique Meiji period Japanese ebonized panel with carved ivory in high relief of peonies, butterflies, birds & signed seal, framed, approx 104cm x 55cm
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Edward Henry Corbould (1815-1905) England, Lady Godiva, watercolour, Originally Purchased by the Trustees of the National Art Galley of N.S.W, The top of frame, inset with The Coventry Halfpenny (1792), signed lower right and dated 1877, approx 80cm x 96cm
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James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 - 20 October 2008) Australia, No22, Herakles III, oil on board, signed lower right, approx 18.5cm x 13cm
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Imperial Chinese flambe glaze vase, Hu Qianlong six character incised seal mark and of the period (1736-1795) The deep bowl-shaped body raised on a spreading foot has a bow-string border below the shoulder and a pair of trailing scroll handles flanking the neck, and is covered with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red colour streaked in purple and milky blue. Along with purchase receipt Hong Kong 1980. Certificate of Identity No C 61144. See also, another example in The Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated by Xiong Liao, Beauty of Ceramics, Gems of Official Kilns, Taipei, 1993, p. 147, approx 22cm H (in fully restored condition, showing signs of the refired glaze flaking)
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