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The Collection of Graham & Elizabeth Cocks - Part 2, Day1 — Bonhams

Auction House:BonhamsNumber of lots recorded:361
Sale Title:The Collection of Graham & Elizabeth Cocks - Part 2, Day1Lots with images:337
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:223
Date:24-Nov-2012
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A Mettoy (UK) large clockwork tinplate fire engine with four firemen, 37 cm length; a Tri-ang Mimic toys fire engine (lacking ladder) 16 cm length; a boxed Tri-ang Mimic toys Wizard stop on car; and a triple petrol bowser (4)
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An Australian Boomaroo 'Hyster' forklift, 28 cm high; a Boomaroo tram, 16 cm length; a Jone's Condamine bull frog bell and three 'Made in Japan' tinplate friction drive vintage cars, a Mobil Gas truck and a Bandai Jaguar YK-E (8)
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Merric Boyd (1888-1959), a moulded gumleaf earthenware candlestick inscribed and dated Merric Boyd 1946, 22 cmhigh
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), a kookaburra vase, glazed earthenware, inscribed Grace Seccombe, Australia, 11 cm high
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), a floral basket, circa 1930 with applied flannel flowers and inscribed leaves, glazed earthenware, inscribed Castle-Harris, 21 cm wide
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Maud Valerie (Val) M cmaster, attributed (1913-1983), an ovoid painted earthenware vase, circa 1935, painted with stylised coloured flower in cartouche, unsigned, 26 cm high
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Allan Lowe (1907-2001), a glazed earthenware jug with incised disc and leaf decoration, inscribed Allan Lowe/triangle/Totemic/Australia, 6.5 cm high
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Sunshine Electrix face jug, circa 1935, mottled green decoration 23 cm high
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Harvey School, a blue glazed earthenware vase decorated with trees in a landscape, inscribed monogram GW and date '2614 cm high
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), two napkin rings, one with a kookaburra and one with a koala, glazed earthenware, inscribed GS, NSW and GS, Aus, 8.5 cm wide (2), good condition
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Melrose Ware Pottery, a Toby jug in yellow brown and black glaze, factory marks, 19 cm high
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Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871-1949), a 'Bronzed' plaster bust of a young woman, raised on a socle, inscribed and dated L.J. Harvey 19 Q, 19 cm high 7' high)
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Arthur Boyd (1862-1940), a blue glazed earthenware pot with zigzag decoration, inscribed A. Boyd, 10 cm diameter
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Stephen Skillitzi (b. 1947), an ovoid carved and glazed earthenware vase, initialled, 22 cm high
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Harold Hughan (1893-1987), a brown green glazed stone ware bottle vase, impressed monogram, 29 cm high
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Shigeo Shiga (b. 1928), an ovoid glazed stoneware vase, impressed seal mark, 18 cm high
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Stone's Bristol Pottery, a brown glaze kookaburra milk jug impressed mark, circa 1920 impressed mark, 12 cm high
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Bosley Ware, a South Australia Centenary green glazed earthenware plate, 22 cm diameter 22 cm in diameter, (8.5' in diameter
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Reynella Pottery (Gladys Reynell 1881-1956), a blue glazed earthenware pot, inscribed Reynella Potters Aus 1922, 5 cm high
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Daisy Merton (1889-1972), a Newtone Pottery glazed ovoid vase, circa 1935, painted with flowers, signed DV Merton, 20 cm high
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An Australian glazed earthenware two handled vase painted with racing greyhounds, inscribed indistinct initials, 17 cm high
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A E Cooper, an Australian glazed earthenware character jug inscribed My Lord, 17 cm high
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Gustav Pillig (1877-1956), a brown painted plaster figure of a nude kneeling girl inscribed G. Pillig, 21 cm high
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Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871-1949), a metallic glazed earthenware bust of an indigenous man, raised on a socle with a boomerang, inscribed LJ Harvey and Q'land Abo. 15 cm high
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A collection of pottery, comprising a Newtone Pottery kookaburra, 10 cm high; an ovoid vase painted with balloons, 16 cm high; a small blue ground vase painted with flowers 10 cm high, a bowl with three geese by Marie Gardner: a budgerigar, marked M. Rennett 7/12/54; and two parrots suspended from a tree (6)
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Regal Art Pottery, three glazed vases,one in the Egyptian manner, 21 cm wide; two-handle vase with a naked female; and a blue glazed vase with kneeling figures, 14 cm high; and a similar wall vase moulded with a kangaroo (4)
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), a kookaburra on a log, glazed earthenware, signed Grace Seccombe, 17 cm high
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Janet Gray (John Barnard Knight, 1910-1993), a green glazed earthenware plate decorated with a lyre bird, inscribed Janet Gray Australia, 19 cm diameter. Notes: John Barnard Knight taught pottery at Royal Melbourne Technical College from 1934-1971. During the 50s and 60s he produced a commercial line of pottery under the name Janet Gray
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Alice Mylie Peppin (1907-1992), a blue glazed earthenware plate, circa 1960 decorated with leaves and berries, inscribed AMP '61, 20 cm diameter
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Port Arthur Pottery, a floral moulded green plate, 22 cm diameter; and a small floral milk jug (2)
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A white glazed kangaroo vase, attributed to Fowler Ware, 16 cm high, and a pair of Fowler Ware white glazed pottery urns, each of square base with swirled waisted body, 35 cm high (3). Notes: For similar kangaroo vase see Australian Pottery of the 19th and 20th century by Marjorie Graham, plate 14
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A circular pottery 'Give Us This Day Our Daily bread' plate, probably Cornwell Pottery, 30 cm diameter
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William Ricketts (1898-1993), an earthenware wall plaque of an indigenous elder, unsigned, 13 cm high
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Louisa Taylor, a blue glazed earthenware squat candle stick, circa 1925, with an applied mushroom, inscribed twice L. Taylor, 13 cm diameter
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Derek Smith, attributed (b1945), a glazed stoneware cup in a cream glaze with freeform rim, 13 cm high
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MCP (Modern Ceramic Products), a pair of Disney character wall pocket vases, Thumper and blossom, 16 cm and a figure of Bambi (3)
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Maud Valerie (Val) M cmaster (1913-1983), a sgraffito earthenware ovoid vase, with orange floral scroll all over decoration, signed and dated Val M cmaster 1933 not glazed, 22 cm high
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Daisy Merton (1889-1972), Newtone Pottery glazed ovoid vase, circa 1935, painted with gumtrees by a river, signed DV Merton, 21 cm high
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Ethel May Warburton (1894-1992), a set of six coffee cup and saucers painted in black with red zigzag borders, signed E.M. Warburton (6)
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Fowler Ware, two pottery dogs, 22 & 16 cm high; a Toby jug, 18 cm high; and a kettle painted by Ruby Cosier (4)
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Stephen Benwell (b. 1953), a Greco-Roman styled pottery chariot milk jug and cover, 12 cm and a bowl decorated with sunrise in a landscape, signed and dated S. Benwell 1982, A.N.G, 19.5 cm diameter (2)
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William Ricketts (1898-1993), an earthenware wall plaque of an Indigenous elder, inscribed Wm. Ricketts, 22 cm high
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), koala on a branch, glazed earthenware inscribed 'GS and Aus', 11 cm high
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Shigeo Shiga (b. 1928), a brown glazed textured vase, impressed seal mark, 13 cm high
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Jenny Orchard (b. 1951), a sgraffito decorated rectangular earthenware planter signed, 14 cm high
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Gustav Pillig (1877-1956), a cream glazed porcelain bust depicting an Art Deco style woman inscribed G. Pillig, 17 cm high . (for similar bust see Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950, Casuarina Press, plate 391)
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Elise Harvey, a brown glazed earthenware three handled vase with bandsof floral carved panels, the base inscribed 'To Valerie From Elkie 1920', 14 cm high. Notes: By repute the vase was made by the daughter of L.J. Harvey and given to the potter Valerie McMaster
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Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871-1949), a plaster portrait panel depicting the profile of a young girl and carved lettering 'On the Sweet Sounds of Spring That Strike the Ear', carved signature and date L.J. Harvey 17, within an original gum leaf and nut carved frame. 33 x 23 cm overall
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'the Mikado' by Studio Potter ray Johnson, comprising a stage and figures of Mikado, Yum-Yum and Nanki-Poo, stage 16 cm wide. (4)
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An Australian stoneware ginger beer bottle by Thomas field, circa 1855, the brown salt glaze bottle impressed 'T. FIELD / POTTER / SYDNEY', 17 cm high. Thomas field was born in 1814 in Barnet, Middlesex. He learnt pottery from JA Gransby between 1838-41. He arrived in Sydney as a free settler in 1842 and established the pottery business T field & Co in April 1843, producing ginger beer and cordial bottles until his retirement in 1872
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Daisy Merton (1889-1972), a pair of doghouse bookends, circa 1940, glazed earthenware, signed DV Merton, 14 cm high (2)
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John Castle-Harris (1893-1967), a leaping marlin, circa 1940, glazed earthenware, inscribed Castle-Harris, Sydney, 21 cm high
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Lithgow Pottery, an earthenware cheese dish and cover 21 cm high; two brown glazed oval jelly moulds, 11 x 13 cm; and a pipkin (4)
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Melrose Ware, a pottery inkwell modelled as John bull in a hat, factory marks, 10 cm high
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Alan Lowe (1907-2001), a brown glazed earthenware vase, 1932, applied with gum leaves and branches, inscribed and dated, Allan Lowe, triangle, 29.2, 32, 15.5 cm high
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Stone's Bristol Pottery, a brown glazed teapot, circa 1920, with snail finial, unmarked, 13 cm high
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), a koala on a branch,glazed earthenware, signed Grace Seccombe, 14.5 cm high
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Fowler Ware, a brown glazed jug, 20 cm high; a squat mottled vase, 14 cm diameter; and a blue and lilac vase, 14 cm high (3)
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Rosedale Pottery, a figure of a platypus, 14 cm wide and a koala, 10 cm high (2)
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Stone's Bristol Pottery, Brisbane, an orange glazed comport, 19 cm diameter
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Melrose Ware, a Pottery blue glazed gum leaf and nut moulded vase, factory marks, 8 cm high
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Harvey School, blue glazed earthenware chamberstick inscribed 'A Book and a Light, What at the Night' and modelled with moths, inscribed monogram SH and date 1937, 14 cm high
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Lithgow Pottery, a 'Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread', glazed earthenware oval two-handled bowl 36 cm wide
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Harvey School, a glazed earthenware vase moulded with trees in a mottled green glaze inscribed monogram GW, 18 cm high; and another moulded with grapes and vines (2)
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A large glazed earthenware two handled vase, with blue and white crystalline decoration and two small handles to the slender neck, inscribed initials ES, 74 cm high
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A large green glaze earthenware vase, raised on a square base with fluted body 50 cm high
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Carola (Ola) Cohn (1892-1964), an earthenware wall mask by inscribed Ola Cohn, 16 cm high
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Lucy Boyd Beck (b. 1916), a painted earthenware plate painted with a horse and moon, signed Lucy, 26 cm diameter
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Neil McCredie (1901-1968), an orange glazed fish earthenware vase modelled with fish and seaweed, inscribed monogram NMC/Epping NSW, 16 cm high. (illustrated Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950 Casuarina Pess, plate 272)
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Neil McCredie (1901-1968), a black metallic glazed earthenware seated smiling Siamese cat inscribed McCredie Ware and monogram, 18.5 cm high
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A brown glazed earthenware profile of John Batman, probably by Bendigo Pottery (some loss) 16 cm high and two Bendigo Pottery 'Agate' vases 12 & 14 cm
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Merric Boyd (1888-1959), a cream and green moulded earthenware jug with large fronds issuing from the handle and palm tree to the background, inscribed and dated Merric Boyd 1936, 15.5 cm high
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Una Deerbon (1882-1972), a green glazed earthenware jug, circa 1935, with applied grapes and leaves and bifurcated handle, inscribed Deerbon, 75/L28, 20 cm high
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VI Eyre (1870-1956), a deep blue glazed earthenware bowl, signed VI Eyre, 13 cm high
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Bosley Ware, a glazed earthernware kookaburra in shades of brown, green, and yellow, impressed mark 20 cm high
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Frederick Mann (1894-1962), a glazed earthenware jug painted with yellow dots between green spirals and brown lines, painted initials, house and gumnut mark 8 cm high
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Merric Boyd (1888-1959), a mottled blue glazed earthenware vase with waisted neck, signed and dated M. Boyd 1928, 25 cm high; and a small grey glazed earthenware bowl by Merric Boyd (1888-1959), painted with a green tree, inscribed and dated Merric Boyd 1937, 10 cm diameter (2)
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Lewis Jarvis Harvey (1871-1949), a green and brown glazed earthenware bowl with mottled ground, inscribed and dated LJ Harvey 1919, 16 cm high
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Hatton Beck (1901-1994), an earthenware goblet glazed in blue, 15 cm high; and a pair of ashtrays with kookaburras (3)
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Essexware, a glazed earthenware figure of a rooster, signed Essexware, Laura, 18 cm high
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Violet Mace (1890-1968), a green glazed earthenware jug carved with gumnuts and leaves, inscribed initials VM/Bothwell/1914/Tasmania, 10 cm high. Notes: for a similar jug see Australian Art Pottery 1900-1950 Casuarina Pess, plate 281
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Frederick E Cox (Jolliff) (1871-1965), a glazed earthenware jug in a blue/green glaze, inscribed hand built, Jolliff, 1947 and monogram FEC, 11 cm high
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Ethel Atkinson (1887-1991), a brown glazed earthenware jug, circa 1930, carved with gum leaves and with bifurcated handle, inscribed E Atkinson and monogram CAS (ceramic Art Studio) 9 cm high; and a small dish painted with leaves and flowers (2)
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Milton Moon (b. 1926), a stoneware vase with textured and glazed body inscribed Milton Moon 18 cm high
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Grace Seccombe (c. 1880-1956), a kookaburra perched on a branch, glazed earthenware, inscribed GS and Aus, 7 cm high
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Rose Noble, an 'Agate' Ware glazed earthenware vase, 11.5 cm high and a small jug with a boomerang, marked Avalon NSW, 6 cm high (2)
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V. Stewart, a Henry Lawson Pottery chamber stick, modelled with the poet's profile and inscribed 'Henry Lawson, born in June at Grenfell N.S.W.', inscribed signature, 16.5 cm high
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Mashman Brothers, Willoughby, a glazed earthenware vase moulded with leaves, impressed circular mark, 13.5 cm high
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Les Blakeborough (active from 1957), a white glazed earthenware vase with flared rim, inscribed monogram, 18 cm high
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Nelson Illingworth (1862-1926), an Art Nouveau painted plaster bust of Vulcana, circa 1904, titled and signed and dated. Together with a composite stand, 108 cm high., weathered
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A collection of stoneware items, comprising a brown glazed stoneware vase by Richard Brooks with vertical carved body below three lug handles, unsigned, 23 cm high; and a stoneware vase decorated in panels and strips 30 cm high; a stoneware flask, 21 cm high and a vase with gum leaves (4)
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Harry Lindeman (1872-1948), a brown and yellow floral glazed earthenware vase, circa 1930 with a vertical striped neck above a band of flowerheads, inscribed Lindeman, 18 cm high
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Jeff Mincham, attributed, (b. 1950), a large ovoid glazed earthenware vase, with red, green and grey glaze on a textured ground, unsigned, 34 cm high
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Remued Pottery, two gum leaf jugs, one with red/green glaze, inscribed Remued hand made 1934, 13 cm high; and a green glaze jug with paper label 11 cm high (2)
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Marguerite Mahood (1901-1989), a glazed earthenware figure of a Victorian elegant lady, dressed in a maroon ruffled dress and green shawl, inscribed Marguerite Mahood, D1965, 13 cm high
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Stephen Harrison, a slender salt glazed earthenware vase, impressed monogram, 31 cm high
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John C. Goodchild (1898-1980), a green glazed earthenware model of a goldfish, inscribed signature, 12 cm high
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Klytie pate (1912-2010), a purple glazed earthenware vase carved with a band of stylised leaves, inscribed K. Pate, 22 cm high
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Ada Ione Newman (1870-1949), a porcelain charger, the border painted with butterflies on a cloudy blue sky, signed A.J. Newman, 36 cm diameter; and a set of six coffee cups and saucer painted with gumnuts (7)
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Marguerite Mahood (1901-1989), a blue glazed earthenware jug, the lip decorated with stylised stiff leaves, inscribed D810 M. Mahood, 14 cm wide
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