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Quarterly Collectors Auction — Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)

Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:1,044
Sale Title:Quarterly Collectors AuctionLots with images:1,016
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:734
Date:31-Mar-2015
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Afghan tribal hand knotted rug. 118 x 190 cm
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Gense Swedish Art Deco style stainless steel 6 piece tea service, circa 1960s
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Wilesco D16 German toy steam engine in original box, mid 20th century
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Wood Ware, tribal artifacts & masks, 20th century. (27 items)
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Dunhill 'Table boy' cigar lighter, gold plated, 20th century. 11 cm
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Cartier gold plated cigarette lighter in original fitted case, badges, medallions, lead farm animals, spectacles, coins etc
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Four Hoya Japanese crystal vases, late 20th century
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Malcolm Fraser (Australian Prime Minister): black top-hat belonging to Fraser, related news clipping & wooden sign 'Nareen' from their country property
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Persian hand knotted silk rug, 20th century. 123 x 185 cm
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Collection of vintage pocket knives, English, American, Japanese & others. (100+ items)
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Wedgwood green jasper ware porcelain clock, vases (2), trinket boxes (4) & dishes (4). 11 items
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Wedgwood jasper ware group comprising comport, vase, milk jug, sugar basin, trinket boxes (5), candle holder, kangaroo plaque, dishes & plates. (16 items)
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Wedgwood: group including trinket boxes, dishes & vases. (63 items)
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Group of Wedgwood porcelain trinket boxes, vases, dishes etc. (25 items)
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Concord Range including tickets, model planes, photographs, certificates etc, circa 1990s. (20+ items)
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Versace 'Le Roi Soleil' porcelain teapot by Rosenthal in original box. 16 cm
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Tibetan bone flute with copper mounts, late 19th century. 35 cm
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Chinese ancestor portrait painting. 88 x 117 cm
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Satsuma bowl of circular form, Meiji period (1868-1912) with fluted rim, the interior decorated with shaped panels of figures and floral motifs gilt seal. 15.5 cm diameter
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A rare Chinese European shape mug, painted in bright enamels with precious objects. Kangxi, late 17th century
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Pair of ancient candle sticks, ancestral bowl & horse totem, hand worked iron, Korean from Kuchang south Kyeng sang province. Tallest 34 cm
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A Chinese porcelain figural candlestick, modelled as a seated boy with a bowl on his head, decorated in low-fired red & turquoise enamels 18th century
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Khymer stone torso, Cambodian, probably 11th/12th century. 35 cm high. Provenance: The contents of musk farm
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A pair of Ming style blue & white dishes painted with deer, 23 cm diameter, & 2 other blue & white dishes, 22 cm & 19 cm diameter
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A framed Chinese ink and colour painting on paper depicting 3 tigers, 20th century, 86 x 66 cm
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Chinese inlaid hardstone, lacquer and bone threefold table screen. 50 cm high, 55.5 cm wide, 1.5 cm deep
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Chinese scroll painting, attributed to Yu Wen tao, 20th century. 56 x 140 cm
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Chinese brush washer in sang de boeuf (flambe) glaze, early 20th century, Republic period. 12.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Sotheby's Melbourne November 2004 (private collection)
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Chinese hardwood square table, Qing Dynasty. 48 cm high, 67 cm wide, 67 cm deep
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Tang style pottery amphora vase. 30 cm
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Pair of small Chinese painted marble table screens in timber stands, Qing dynasty. Screens 14 x 9 cm each
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Chinese carved jade ornament, bi disc & pendant, largest 8 cm (3 items)
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Canton enamel dish showing birds & peonies on blue ground, early 20th century. Diameter 16 cm
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Indian bronze dancing figure. 29 cm
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Indonesian pierced bronze dragon dish on stand. Length 62 cm
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Chinese bronze censer, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, in the form of a buffalo, the rider serving as a cover. 27 cm high, 28.5 cm long
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Meiji Japanese Satsuma charger dish, of lobed design with geometric, floral & bird designs. Signed Dai Nihon, Kinkozan Kyoto Sei. 33.5 cm wide
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A large Chinese stone axe head, two holes drilled through, old cracks and surface wear, 20th century, 34 cm long
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Qing Dynasty Chinese cloisonne panel with floral & butterfly design. 24 cm long
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A blue glaze Cong vase with elephant handles & Qianlong mark on the base, 20th century. Height 25.5 cm
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Chinese glass vase, enamel glass decorated with auspicious themes in brown, green & red colours in high relief, 20th century. 27 cm
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A Chinese blue and white vase with 'Shou' characters decorated on the exterior in underglaze blue & a underglaze blue Studio mark on the base, 20th century. 28 cm
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A globular body rising from a round splayed foot with the interior decorated with a branch of underglaze blue chayote and the exterior with a gold lacquer depicting dragons and other auspicious symbols on an overglaze red enamel ground; the underglaze six-characters mark on the base. 13 diameter, 8 cm high
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A rare ladies blue gauze Summer dragon court robe, circa 1875, with gold and silver couching. 133 cm x 200 cm. * for an earlier example see: Christie's Hk 28 May 2014, Lot 3352 'Imperial Textiles from the collection of an American gentleman'
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A Mongolian silver-mounted marble bowl with inlays, a faint floral design on the marble, 15.2 cm diameter
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A Huanghuali document box, 17th/18th century, with original brass fittings, the base in jichimmu wood, 13.5 cm high, 36.3 cm wide, 20.5 cm deep
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A Japanese double-gourd shaped Kutani vase, Meiji period, 1868-1912, decorated with figures, four character seal mark to base, 36 cm high
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An inscribed Chinese inkstone in a mother of pearl inlaid hardwood box, 20.5 cm long
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A Japanese mixed metal bronze vase, Meiji period, inlaid in gold copper and shakudo, 14 cm high together with a shibayama inlaid ivory box, 6.5 cm diameter. (2 items)
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A lady's Chaopao 'Piling' collar, late Qing Dynasty, circa 1875, from a lady's formal or state robe, framed with a pair of dragon's in gold thread above waves. 83 cm wide.*for a complete lady's Chaopao in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (accession number: 35.84.4), where it is stated: 'Surviving examples of women's formal court robes are rare: not many were made, as women were not often included in court ceremonies'
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Japanese plate decorated with mother of pearl & ivory on a gold lacquer ground, 19th century. 35 cm diameter
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A Chinese baluster vase, people's Republic, 20th century, painted with a continuous landscape and inscribed Deng Guojun, red seal to base, 38 cm high
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Framed Chinese textile badge, 20th century. 26 cm square
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A pair of Chinese polychrome ladies, Peoples' Republic, 20th century, each one very finely modelled holding a sceptre in one hand, the flat base with a russet burn. 42.5 cm
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A pair of Chinese silk and cotton embroidered panels, early 20th century. 172 cm long
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Chinese paper passport with English consular revenue stamps, early 20th century
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A pair of Chinese Ming style yoke-back chairs, 20th century. 106 cm high, 52 cm wide
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A pair of Chinese Huali square stools (Fangdeng), 20th century, each one with cane seats & hump-backed spandrels. 48 cm high, 59.5 cm wide, 59.5 cm deep
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A bronze Buddha, 20th century
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A Chinese soapstone figure, 20th century
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A good Chinese hardwood wine table (Pingtouan), Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, with floating panel, a shaped apron with pierced ruyi-heads and leg braces at each end. 81.5 cm high, 115.5 cm wide, 52 cm deep. For a similar hardwood table see: Christie's New York, Chinese Ceramics and works of Art, 20 and 21 March 2014, Lot 2295
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A Chinese bamboo summer vest, 19th century. *Refer Linda Wrigglesworth 'Orientations', November 1990, for a similar vest
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A yellow painted Japanese bowl in wooden box
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A rare Thai Bhudda, Ratanakosin holding a mandorla (removable). 33 cm high. Provenance: Mossgreen 21 Feb 2011, the Robert Doble collection, Lot 233
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Chinese archaistic bronze ding & cover with upright handles, supported on three tall feet, decorated with an overall key fret design. 28 cm high, 26.4 cm wide
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Chinese silk embroidered textile, Qing Dynasty, finely worked with a pair of birds and flowering shrubs in subdued colours. 85 cm x 92 cm
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A small parcel gilt bronze Tibetan snow lion, 16th/17th century. 4.8 cm high; 5 cm wide. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, early 1990's
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A rare fencai enamel square-shaped seal box, Qing Dynasty, early 19th century, with chamfered corners. Cover painted with a scholar & attendant beside a large waterfall with sloping rim with a faux-wood design. Further miniature landscapes in sections around the waisted base, four character red seal mark 'The blue cloud Studio'. 10 cm diameter. Provenance: R & V Tregaskis, late 1980's/early 90's
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Bronze Bhudda statue 19th to 20th century. 22 cm high
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Chinese tiger embroidered textile, 20th century. Length 145 cm, width 85 cm
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Chinese ivory chess set in fitted silk lined games box. Mid 20th century
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Two Japanese Tsubas, bronze & gilt. 20th century (reproduction). Approx. 8 x 7 cm each
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Marble seated Bhudda sculpture nicely carved in a Longmen style with left hand holding a sutra and right hand in 'Fear Not' mudra, 20th century. 60.5 cm
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Chinese 4 drawer timber hall table with brass butterfly handles. Height 84 cm, width 115 cm, depth 59 cm
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Chinese rosewood and softwood partners desk with foot rests, 20th century. Height 81 cm, width 179 cm, depth 100 cm
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Pair of Korean side cabinets on stands, early to mid 20th century. Height 75 cm, width 90 cm, depth 42 cm each
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Pair of Chinese horseshoe timber armchairs, 20th century
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Satsuma Japanese lidded vase, circa 1930s. 24 cm
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A bronze figure of a seated Bodhisattva on burl wood base, 18 cm high including base
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Chinese grey rock crystal brush washer, 20th century. Length 12.5 cm, height 7 cm
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A lacquered Chinese painting table, 19th century
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Chinese Imari porcelain dish, 18th century. 12.2 cm diameter
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Chinese wooden table screen mounted as a mirror, early 20th century, 73 cm high
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A very unusual pair of Thai portrait vases, 20th century, each one with a medallion of King Rama V (1868-1910) reserved against an enamel Bencharong style background. Gilt mark on the base is Chulalongkorn (King Rama V). 31 cm high
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Chinese export blue and white basket, 18th century. length 26.3 cm height18 cm
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Chinese pale green stone carving of a pheasant perched on a rock, Republic period. 24.5 cm high
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Three Chinese jade toggles, 20th century. Largest 6 cm
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Japanese ivory netsuke, warrior on horseback, Meiji period, signed to base
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Square porcelain enamel vase with elephant handles on two sides, 20th century. 30 cm high
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Seated bronze Tibetan monk Bhuddist statue, 20th century
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A group of 7 Chinese scrolls including Queen of the Western Hills, peacock in mountain landscape, Fishes swimming & Zhong Kui on donkey with poem T'aoist trad, 20th century
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Three bronze Bhudda statues, 20th century. Tallest 23 cm
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Soapstone carving depicting birds and peony, 20th century, 24 x 36 cm
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Chinese double gourd vase decorated with dragons and aquatic animals in enamels & iron red, 20th century, 41 cm high
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Chinese Wucai enamel ewer & cover, Guangxu iron red mark with Karas collection n.56, exhibited Ccs n.3
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Chinese rectangular inkstone, well carved with birds amongst clouds, 32.4 x 21.5 cm
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Chinese celadon glazed mallet jar, 20th century, 22.8 cm high
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Chinese silk embroidered textile wall hanging, 18th/19th century. Framed 115 x 63 cm
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Pair of Chinese dragon paintings on silk, 18th/19th century. 30 x 172 cm each
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Ceramic Himalayan guard dog statue, 19th century. 22 cm
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