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The Connoisseur's Collection - Part 1 — Sotheby's

Auction House:Sotheby'sNumber of lots recorded:330
Sale Title:The Connoisseur's Collection - Part 1Lots with images:288
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:219
Date:27-May-2008
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A pair of fine Sevres style ormolu mounted vases and covers, 19th century, each raised on a stepped circular plinth rising to a knopped standard cast with two frollicking putto, the bowl decorated with mask heads and floriate swags below a painted and gilt bleu celeste panel, the conforming covers with a putti finialsigned Hublob, 69 cm high
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A Sevres style bleu celeste 'Napoleonic' vase and cover, 19th century. Height 55 cm
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A Sevres style ormolu mounted vase, late 19th century. Height 43 cm
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A large Sevres style bleu celeste ormolu mounted vase and cover, late 19th century. Height 52 cm
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A Sevres style rose pompadour figural sweetmeat dish, late 19th century, 39 cm high
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A Sevres style ormolu mounted rose pompadour clock garniture, 19th century, the clock of serpentine form cast with classical motifs, surmounted by an urn and painted with panels of lovers in a landscape, flanked by mask head handles, the urns with conforming decoration
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A French porcelain and gilt bronze mantel clock, 19th century, the painted Arabic numeral enamel dial within an ornate gilt bronze case decorated with ornate gilt bronze classical motifs, surmounted by a jewelled, painted and gilt urn and cover
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'Trompe L'oeil' by Nobby Seymour, painted in oils, depicting an enchanting Landscape scene on three panels. Nobby Seymour was born in Naracoorte South Australia and was admitted as an Associate to the Royal Australian Institute of Architects in 1974. He has designed and carried out over one hundred and twenty mural commissions in Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the United States of America
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Albert Ernest Carrier-Belleuse (1827-1887) 'La Liseuse', the patinated bronze and ivory figure of a young woman reading, dressed in a headdress and elaborately embroidered costume in the pre-Raph'lite style, holding the pages of her book in two hands
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A French ivory figure of Corpus Christi, probably 17th century, figure 20.5 cm frame 25 cm wide 40 cm high
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A marble bust of a young woman, early 20th century, with a scarf around her forehead holding her hair aloft, her arms across her breasts with her hands clasping a diaphanous wrap, 60 cm high
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A finely carved Italian marble sculpture, signed 19th century, modelled as a hen with her chicks on a gilt wood base, 65 cm high
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Isidore-Jules Bonheur (French, 1827-1901) mare and foal, bronze, modelled as a standing mare with her foal, on an oval base. Provenance: Gifted to the present owner by the Bonheur Family
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Alfred Barye (1839-1882) bronze figure of a hound, modelled seated on a naturalistic base, and raised on a rectangular rouge marble plinth
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Pierre Jules Mene (1810 - 1879) two hunting dogs, circa 1860, modelled with one dog standing, the other in a seated position, on a naturalistic base with an oval black veined marble plinth. Width 46 cm
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After Clodion, a bronze figure group 'Cupid and Psyche', late 19th century, modelled as a seated semi-draped nymph with grapes in her raised hand, holding a putti across her lap, on a naturalistic base, 23 cm high
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After Clodion, a gilt bronze figure group of two nymphs, 19th century, modelled as two classically draped female figures with flowers to their hair, raised on a circular stepped onyx base
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A marble bust of Faustina the Younger, 61 cm high
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A bronze bust, French, 19th century, 65 cm high
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Fernand Lian (French) bronze bust of young woman, late 19th century, the patinated bronze bust modelled as an elegant young woman wearing a bonnet and a rose tucked into in her bodice, supported on a turned ochre marble socle, inscribed Fernand Lian Paris and stamped Goldscheider editeur Paris, 40 cm high
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Attributed to Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich Portrait of a Bearded Man, oil on canvas laid on board, 47.5 cm by 37 cm
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A fine pair of rock crystal corinthian capital lamps, 48 cm high
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A collection of eight tazza shaped Indian glass bowls, 40 cm diameter, 33 cm high
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A Victorian model of a ship 'Seeadler' made for Asprey of London 1889, titled 'After the Storm', a skillfully crafted timber three masted sailing vessel, fully rigged and out fitted with an oil painted landscape backdrop and the sea realistically created in painted paper, complete with key wind automation providing gentle motion for the ship amidst waves; the original glass case with velvet top and gilt wood base labelled 'After the Storm', 'Asprey London by J.Cabor, rue Leot Paris', Gold Medal of Merit,…
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A swiss silver gilt and enamel singing bird box, 19th century, 10 cm wide, 6.5 cm deep, 5 cm high
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A pair of rococo style gilt bronze candelabra, 19th century, each with a chamfered square base rising to an ornate acanthus leaf decorated standard emanating four scrolling leaf capped arms, terminating in conforming drip pans and sconces, 32 cm high
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An Aubusson silk and wool tapestry, French, late18/19th century, 291 cm high, 288 cm wide
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A large Flemish verdure tapestry, 18th century, the foreground woven in polychrome hues with birds amongst trees and flowers overlooking a boat sailing between headlands, a long low fortress on one headland and a classic building on the other, within a continuous border of trailing flowers and swags
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An Aubusson tapestry, 19th century, 137 cm wide, 336 cm high
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Yomud carpet from West Turkestan. Provenance: Purchased from Lisel Stein of South Yarra in the late 1960s
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