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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:179
Sale Title:The Colin Davies CollectionLots with images:179
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:109
Date:7-Jun-2017
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A 15 ct gold mounted champagne cork dice holder, English, circa 1900, makers mark G & SA, 15 ct, the hinged cover monogrammed and inscribed 'Bon Voyage Les from A. J. U. 15.3.1900, with six miniature carved bone dice, 5 cm high
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A Tiffany 18 carat gold opal mounted hexagonal pill box, 20th century, marked Tiffany & Co., Londres, Stamped T & Co., 75, 2.7 cm high, 4 cm diameter
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A collection of five silver mounted semi-precious cut and faceted stones, including amethyst, tourmaline, smokey quartz
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George Baxter (1804-1867), News from Home and News from Australia, two chromolithographs, 11 x 14.5 cm (each)
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A large Goan mother-of-pearl inlaid hardwood marriage chest, Indian, 19th century, 85 cm high 180 cm wide 65 cm deep
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A small collection of English tea plates and tea-wares, 19th century, comprising of six Aynsley cake plates and a Crown Staffordshire cup and saucer, largest plate: 17 cm diameter
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A collection of Australian art history and reference books including Donald Friend, Jeffrey Smart, Patrick Hockey, Ross Watson and Llewellyn Jones and Ildiko Kovacs
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A collection of Australian art history and reference books including William Dobell, Donald Friend, Jeffrey Smart, William Robinson, Justin O?Brien, Sidney Nolan, Eugene Von Guerard, Tom Roberts, Patrick Hockey, John Coburn, Ross Watson and Fiona Hall
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A collection of seven porcelain, bronze and carved hardstone animal figures, 20th century, together with a oval small porcelain trinket box, the largest animal 6 cm high
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A large painted and gilded porcelain dinner set, probably English, 19th century, comprising twelve dinner, dessert and cake plates and twelve large bowls, each decorated to the centre with an elephant and a mahout, the largest plate 26 cm diameter
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An Italian terracotta male torso, in the Roman style, possibly 18th century, on a later black granite base, the torso only 57 cm high
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A pair of colour engravings, engraved for Walpoole's New & Complete Brish Traveller, View of Worcester in Worcestershire, View of Hereford in Herefordshire, and View of Leicester in Leicestershire, View of Lincoln in Lincolnshire, published Alexander Hogg London, 33 x 23.5 cm (each)
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A Chinese red and black lacquer side cabinet, late 19th/ early 20th century, Purchased Ernest Ephinstone, Sydney, 89 cm high 104 cm wide 50 cm deep
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