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Decorative Arts — Art+Object

Auction House:Art+ObjectNumber of lots recorded:405
Sale Title:Decorative ArtsLots with images:400
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:259
Date:18-Feb-2015
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Te Ariki Onehunga Mills New Zealand wool travel rug with a Maori tukutuku design in brown red and white. Original label attached
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Manatunga (Maori for Keepsake) wool travel rug with a tukutuku panel inspired design in red, green, black and white. Original label attached
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New Zealand pottery vase slip cast with Maori figural decoration. Height 16 cm
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Rare small titoki liquor bottle modelled as a Maori pou pou figure. Height 16 cm
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Whites Aviation large hand coloured photograph of Auckland depicting the Harbour Bridge in the foreground. Whites inscription to the bottom right hand corner, the other corner inscribed Auckland. 77 cm x 1200
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Sperm whale tooth with contemporary Maori carving, one side featuring a wheku head and the other with an ancestral figure. Length 17 cm
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A late 19th century surveyor's knife, fork and spoon set with ivory handles in fitted leather sheath
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Two puriri leather knives and a later kauri letter knife
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Three leather pouches
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T. Peacock & Son, Auckland, New Zealand brass surveyor's level. 19th century complete with fitted leather case
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Brass surveyor's level in fitted wooden case. Length 11 cm
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Maurice Davis surveyor's leather satchel and contents including plum bob, pencils, tape measures, notebooks with notations, logarithmic tables and survey maps
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Brush & Mae Donnell, Melbourne brass surveyor's measuring wheel Cased
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18th century circumferentor or surveyor's compass by Troughton and Sons, London complete in original fitted case. Length 31 cm
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A collection of surveyor's books including mathematical tables, notebooks, logs and regulations (8 vols.)
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Shamptaloup and Edmiston Stationers, Auckland cased compass together with another compass
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A cased set of 19th century ivory rulers by Elliott of London in fitted case
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Three box wood rulers by J Rabone & Sons, Birmingham
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A collection of eleven wooden rulers by English makers including Reeves & Sons, J Rabone & Son and Stanleys
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Two Whenuapai aerial photographs used in the surveying process by Maurice Davis
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Colonial kauri cabinet with architectural pediment and single drawer above a recessed shelf with two panelled cupboard doors to the base. Height 160 cm. Width 75 cm
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Colonial kauri hall stand with bevel edged mirror below a section with a single drawer flanked by open compartments and raised on turned legs. Height 210 cm. Width 90 cm
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Colonial kauri wall shelf with two drawers above open compartments with three drawers to the lower section. Height 73 cm. Width 800
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William Norrie (attributed). Kauri specimen table the top inlaid with a star burst design in kauri and various other native timbers with a single shelf to the base and raised on splayed legs. Width 48 cm. Height 74 cm
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Colonial solid mottled kauri bookcase the upper section with glazed panelled doors the lower section with two frieze drawers above panelled cupboards raised on a platform base. Height 216 cm. Width 114 cm
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A large 19th century kauri gum bust of a Maori chief with ta moko. Height 36 cm
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Colonial mottled kauri davenport with original tooled leather top above barley twist supports on a platform base with four drawers to one side and dummy drawers to the other. Width 54 cm. Height 86 cm
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A colonial kauri table with geometric cube pattern inlaid to the top and raised on turned legs. Width 60 cm. Height 79.9 cm
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A superb colonial French empire style breakfront sideboard with a single shelf to the upper section with restrained serpentine carving centred by Prince of Wales feathers in relief above a radial cut puriri top, the lower section with three cupboards faced with burr totara flanked by engaged columns on a platform base. Width 154 cm. Height 140 cm
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Colonial solid totara and figured puriri chest of drawers two small drawers above two full width drawers with Victorian facet cut glass drawer pulls. 96 cm x 96 cm
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William and James Norris . Colonial dressing table, circa 1870 of serpentine form in solid mottled kauri, burr totara and rimu with an oval mirror over a lidded glove department flanked by six small drawers, raised on turned legs on a platform base. Width 130 cm
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An important Colonial kauri scotch chest the upper section full width blanket drawer in radial cut kauri with mottled totara fascia above two small drawers and three full width drawers with figured burr kauri fascias and carved handles, flanked by engaged columns on a platform base. Height 120 cm. Width 140 cm
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Colonial solid mottled kauri dressing table with central mirror flanked by two small drawers, each pedestal with four drawers with turned handles. Width 120 cm. Height 165 cm
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Colonial kauri single bed with bobbin turning
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Colonial kauri hall table with a single drawer, original brass tear drop handles raised on turned legs. Width 100 cm
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Late 19th century mahogany caved china cabinet with two glazed doors. Width 100 cm. Height 1000
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An impressive colonial kauri dressing table marquetry inlaid with mottled kauri, totara, rewarewa and other native timbers, with central full length mirror flanked by a bank of eight drawers each pedestal additionally with four small drawers.
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Colonial kauri half tester bed
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Pair of mottled kauri mirrors each with bevel edge.
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Pair of mottled kauri bedside cabinets each with white Carrara marble top.
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Colonial kauri washstand with architectural pediment with two small drawers and panelled cupboard raised on turned legs. Width 120 cm
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Colonial kauri scotch chest central mottled kauri drawer flanked by small drawers above three full width drawers above a platform base on bun feet with applied acanthus mouldings. Height 128 cm. Width 120 cm
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Colonial kauri bookcase chiffonier the upper section with a gallery top above two glazed doors the lower section with cylinder to open to reveal a mottled kauri finished interior above panel doors on a platform base. Width 150 cm. Height 260 cm
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Colonial kauri chiffonier up stand back with serpentine shaped single frieze drawer over mottled panelled cupboards on a platform base.
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Colonial mottled kauri wash stand with white marble top, panelled cupboard door raised on turned legs. Width 93 cm. Height 125 cm
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Colonial mottled kauri dressing table the superstructure with a bevel edge mirror flanked by two small drawers above two full width drawers, original casters. Width 125 cm. Height 194 cm
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Mottled kauri colonial double bed
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Kauri and mottled kauri wardrobe with architectural pediment above a central door with full length mirror with a single drawer to the base. . Height 2.2 cmm. Width 120 cm
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A rare totara colonial Scotch chest with ogee drawer above a hat drawer with two drawers to one side and two dummy drawers to the other side over three full width drawers with attached integral table to the side. Height 134 cm. Width 123 cm
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Full size Kauri colonial cheval mirror with serpentine scroll supports on a platform base. Height 160 cm. Width 75 cm
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Mottled kauri wall cabinet. Height 670. . Width 50 cm
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Kauri colonial wardrobe the door with bevel edged mirror. Width 98 cm. Height 196 cm
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A Kauri colonial bookcase with stepped cornice, the glazed panelled door enclosing three shelves. Height 130 cm. Width 119 cm
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The Elmslie Sideboard. An oak and Kauri New Zealand Arts and Crafts sideboard with carving and copper repousse work by Jessie Campbell (nee Elmslie). Width 185 cm. Height 256 cm
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After Isaac Gilsenan. Murderers Bay Copperplate engraving. This is the first image of Maori people drawn by a European artist, showing a crew of Maori in a double-hulled canoe in what is now known as Tasman Bay.
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After Sydney Parkinson. Tetê d'un Guerrier de la Nouvelle Zelande (Head of a warrior of New Zealand) Copperplate engraving. This is the first portrait of a Maori person, from the East Coast of the Nth. Island, drawn by a European artist.
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Herman Diedrich Sporing. 'A Fortified Town or Village Called a Hippah (Pa), Built on a Perforated Rock, at Tolaga in New Zealand'. Copperplate engraving, c. 1769
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After Sydney Parkinson. War Canoe of New Zealand with a view of Gable End Foreland Copperplate engraving
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After Sydney Parkinson. Coffre Sculte des Habitans de la Nouvelle Zelande (A Chest of New Zealand, as a speciman of the carving of the country), publisher: Alex Hogg and 'Bludgeons used as Weapons by the New Zealanders and called Patoo-Patoo's as seen on the Side the Edge and the End' Both copperplate engravings, c. 1770
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William Hodges. A Family at Dusk Bay, New Zealand Copperplate engraving, c. 1775
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William Hodges. Family in Dusk Bay, New Zealand Copperplate engraving, c. 1775
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Unknown Artist. Insulaire de la Nouvelle Zelande Rare and early hand tinted copperplate engraving
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Jean Piron. Uomo e Ragazza della Nuova Zelanda (A man of and a woman of New Zealand), from the 'Voyage in Search of la Perouse'. Hand tinted lithograph, c. 1800
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August Earle. The Wounded Chief Hongi and his family, Bay of Island Hand tinted lithograph, 1828
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John William Lewin. A Hoodee of Gunna Chief of Rangee Hoo Hand tinted lithograph, London: G. & W.B. Whittaker, 1824. Gunna Chief was the first Maori to sell land to the missionaries in the Bay of Islands in 1815
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Joseph Jenner Merrett. Te Kauwau, Chief of the Ngati Te Whatau Tribe and 'Hira, One of the Sons of Te Kauwau - Paora, Nephew of Te Kauwau'. Hand tinted lithograph, London 1842. Drawn on stone and printed by P Gauchi. From Charles Terry, 'New Zealand, It's Advantages and Prospects as a British Colony'.
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Louise Auguste de Sainson. A lithograph illustrating the Maori canoes of Tolaga Bay and Bream Bay, New Zealand
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Richard Aldworth, Captain Oliver. Te Nancihaeta - New Zealand Chief Hand tinted lithograph
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George French Angas. 'House of Iwikau, brother of Te Heuheu and Falls of Ko Waihi at Te Rapa, Taupo Lake'. Hand tinted lithograph from The New Zealanders Illustrated, 1847
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George French Angas. 'To Ohu – An Old Tohunga or Hearthen Priest' and 'Ko Tauwaki and Ko Teonionga – Taupo'. Hand tinted lithograph from The New Zealanders Illustrated, 1847
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George French Angas. Horomona Marahau – Blind Solomon Hand tinted lithograph from 'The New Zealanders Illustrated', 1847
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George French Angas. Lamentation over a Deceased Chief Hand tinted lithograph from 'The New Zealanders Illustrated', 1847
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George French Angas. E Pori and her daughter E Rangi Wawa Hand tinted lithograph from 'The New Zealanders Illustrated', 1847. Original John Leech Gallery label verso, 1967
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Charles Decimus Barraud. 'Te Puni' and 'Rangihaita' Two hand tinted lithographs from 'The New Zealand, Graphic and Descriptive', London 1877
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Wilhelm Dittmer. The Keeper of Pahikaure Chromolithograph, 1906, Christchurch Press Co. Ltd. Portrait of Maori Woman Te Rerehau Kahotea (Wife Te HeuHeu V) Holding the Mere Pahikaure, a Taonga of the Ngati Tuwharetoa.
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Charles Frederick Goldie. A Hot Day – Patara Te Tuhi Chromolithograph, 1823 – 1910. Supplement to the 'New Zealand Illustrated', the Christmas number of the Weekly Press, 1904
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Foy Brothers (Thames). Portrait of a young Ngati Maru woman wearing korowhai and hei tiki. Original carte de visite, c. 1865
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Full length portrait of man wearing korowhai. Original carte de visite, c. 1865
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E. Pulman, Auckland photographer. Portrait of Rewi Maniapoto and his son Original carte de visite, c. 1870
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Portrait of a Maori gentleman in European suite. Original unmounted carte de visite, c. 1870
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Portrait of a Maori woman. Sepia toned contact print from the original glass plate negative in the National Museum, c. 1870.
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company). Portrait of a Maori woman Sepia toned contact print from the original glass plate negative in the National Museum, c. 1870.
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Two full length portraits of Maori men in photographic studio environments. Sepia toned contact prints from the original glass plate negatives in the National Museum, c. 1870
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Two studio portraits of Maori women, one with 'whaka' tattoo on one arm, the other with lip and chin moko. Sepia toned contact prints from the original glass plate negatives in the National Museum, c. 1870
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John McGarrigle (American Photographic Company) Two studio portraits of a young Maori man holding Polynesian clubs and wearing exotic feathers in his hair and beard. The first is a sepia toned contact print from the original glass plate negative in the National Museum, c. 1870; the second is a black and white print via the Burton Brothers, Dunedin.
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Burton Brothers (Alfred Burton), Dunedin Three images from the King Country & Taranaki, May 1885: 'Rane' at Taumaranui – King Country; The Fair 'Orini' at Ti Eke – King Country; Tuohu (a Maori Belle in ball dress), Parihaka. All black and white contact prints (1975) from the original glass plate negatives in the National Museum, 1885.
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Burton Brothers (Alfred Burton), Dunedin. 'At Taumaranui King Country', May 1885. Original large format carbon print, c. 1910. Published by Muir & Moodie, Dunedin, no. 3573
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Photographer unknown. 'Group showing Maihi Paraone Kawiti O'Waiomio. Rangatira no Ngapuhi. Tere Tana Hoa wahine = Wi Kupa = Major Dane, American Literateur, T.P. Moody. Edward Hansen & others of the Bay of islands.'. Original vintage photograph, c. 1880
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J.R. Blencowe. 'Nurse and child' and 'Maori mother'. Contact prints from the original glass plate negatives taken in Rotorua near the beginning of the 20th century.
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J.R. Blencowe. 'Mother and child' and 'Maori cooking operations, Rotorua' Original vintage hand coloured contact prints from the original glass negatives taken in Rotorua near the beginning of the 20th century
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James McDonald. 'Te Rerehau of Taupo – Wife of Te Heuheu, Paramount Chief of Tu Wharetoa and Kahotea – Her Son'. Contact print from the original glass plate negative in the National Museum, c. 1910.
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Photographer Unknown. A full length portrait of a young Maori woman holding a carved decorative paddle (Hoe) from the Rotorua School of Carving. Contact print from the original glass plate negative in the Rotorua Museum, c. 1910
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Arthur James Iles. Full length portrait of a young Maori girl in studio 'bush setting' Vintage hand coloured photograph, c. 1910
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A collection of three portraits of Maggie Papakura including an original postcard 'Guide Maggie, Rotorua no. 16', signed 'Aroha – Maggie Papakura'; and two contact prints by J. Blencowe, the first a double portrait of Maggie Papakura and her sister Bella, photographed in the window of Tene Waitere's carved house Rauru; the second a portrait of Maggie Papakura wearing korowhai, head scarf and hei tiki, c.1910
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Photographer Unknown. Maori Woman and Child with Blanket Unique hand coloured photograph, c. 1910
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Photographer Unknown (Auckland). Full length studio portrait of a young Maori man with bentwood chair and flower arrangement. Contact print from the original glass plate negative from the John Perry Collection, c. 1912.
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Photographer Unknown. Double portrait of Maori men in top hats and tails, in front of a banner advertising the Ratana Maori Lady Orchestra performing at the Drill Hall, Friday the 6th of July. Contact print from the original glass plate negative in the National Museum, c. 1925
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Photographer Unknown. Maureen Kingi (Miss New Zealand 1962) and Wihapi (Hapi) Wineata in 'traditional' Maori costumes, cooking using traditional Maori methods at Whakarewarewa, Rotorua. Original hand-coloured photograph, c. 1964
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Arthur Iles (1870-1943). Maori portrait, circa 1905 silver gelatin print signed and with imprinted with number 107 19.6 cm x 14 cm
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Portrait of Guide Susan wearing a hei-tiki, circa 1900 albumen print signed with initials JM, imprinted title and number 175 20 cm x 14 cm
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