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Fine and Decorative Arts — Philips Auctions Australia

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Auction House:Philips Auctions AustraliaNumber of lots recorded:364
Sale Title:Fine and Decorative ArtsLots with images:363
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:247
Date:16-Jun-2019
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An antique Spanish sampler, 1849 embroidered by Porcarolina Rodriguez in coloured silk thread featuring numerals and the alphabet in various fonts plus blocks of decorative embroidery illustrating a variety of embroidery techniques upon an open weave linen cloth, height 51 cm, width 54.5 cm
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An antique Spanish sampler, 19th century embroidered by Esperanza Tomas in red silk thread featuring numerals and the alphabet in various fonts, illustrating a variety of embroidery techniques upon an open weave linen cloth, height 50 cm, width 49 cm
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Two antique Spanish samplers, circa 1859 embroidered by Florenca Garces and Loizo Monica Garces in coloured silk thread, the larger with a floral border enclosing baskets of flowers and birds, the smaller with a wave border enclosing four vases of flowers and centred with an ecclesiastical motif, height 34 cm, width 43.5 cm, and smaller
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A Russian brass samovar with tray by Batashev, early 20th century, Tula, with maker's mark of Batashev, the charcoal burner samovar of typical form with kettle mount, water font with side handles and burner mounted on a footed stand, maker's stamps to the body flanked by 19th and early 20th century grand Prix stamps, cover also stamped with maker's marks and stamps, height 47.5 cm
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A vintage marble pedestal, with a turned gun barrel pillar and having an extended stepped top and a waisted socal to a faceted base, height 103 cm
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An alabaster model of a lutenist, early 20th century, a female figure in medieval attire seated upon a rough hewn plinth and holding a floral engraved lute, unsigned, height 55 cm
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An Art Deco white marble figural group by Huguenin Dumittan (1888-1975), a female nude figure cradling her child, faint incised signature lower right to base, height 44 cm, length 47 cm, width 12 cm
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An antique marble bust, later 19th century, the white marble bust of a young woman with a serene expression dressed in a ribboned bonnet, upon a pedestal base, height 52.5 cm
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A fine Victorian cast iron boot Scraper, 19th century, the large scale rectangular scraper with rounded trestle style ends embellished with sphinxes, height 29 cm, length 68 cm, width 30 cm
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Two vintage Barometers, 1900 and after, one German, the other marked Maison du Lynx, Brussels, a circular barometer in a timber frame, the other housed in a carved oak case with a thermometer to the stem, length 58.5 cm, width 18.5 cm, and smaller
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A French cast lamp with a glass shade in the Renaissance revival and Louis XVI styles, late 19th century originally an oil lamp, with a pierced cast base decorated with mascarons, a festooned urn form stem decorated and supporting a domed white glass spiral ribbed shade, height 55 cm
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A French fuel lamp, 19th century, the lamp with a porcelain font decorated with the transfer design of a woman in a plumed hat amidst foliage, raised on a shaped cast brass base, with original brass fittings and dials, and having a white dome glass shade and glass chimney, height 58 cm
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A pair of antique brass candlesticks, 19th century slender conical stems with urn form nozzles and raised domed spreading bases in rich copper brass colours, height 22 cm
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A signed white 'Metal D'Art' vase by Chevalier, signed L.Houzeaux, circa 1930s, a baluster vase with bold geometric rays and rose heads in relief upon a textured ground, incised signature near base, stamped marks underside, height 17.5 cm
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An antique, possibly Georgian, burr walnut patch box, early to mid 19th century, with fine figuration and patina, the box of compressed barrel shape with a hinged lid and opal cabochon, length 5 cm, width 9 cm
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An antique Swiss pocket or travelling Compensated barometer, late 19th century, with maker's mark for W.Ecker, Lucerne, in a leather bound and silk lined travelling case and comprising a barometer compass and mercury thermometer, length 8.5 cm
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A framed watercolour miniature of 'Vanity, early 20th century, an oval watercolour upon cellulose depicting the allegorical nude figure of vanity holding a hand mirror in a landscape setting, signed faintly lower right, housed in an ivory tiled frame with stringing and mother-of- pearl details, height 14.5 cm, width 12 cm
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A group of three small porcelain plaques in ebonised frames, mid 20th century, the painted cushion form plaques depicting mother and child, after Raphael, a cupid, after Michelangelo, and a half portrait of a woman in a pink bonnet all set in matching rectangular wooden frames, height 10.5 cm, width 10 cm
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A painted porcelain plaque by Francis Clark, later 20th century depicting a small girl holding a white cat, three keen Jack Russell terriers at her feet, signed F. Clark lower left, Francis Clark joined Royal Worcester as a painter in 1972, height 21 cm, width 18.5 cm
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An Art Deco wrought iron and glass lamp by Muller Freres, circa 1925, glass shade with cameo signature Muller Freres Luneville wrought iron base signed Amiot (Jean?), the lamp base modelled as a swollen stem comprising slender leaves and stems to three whorl feet, surmounted by an acid etched shade, height 28 cm
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An antique European carved wood ecclesiastical group in the medieval manner, a pair of grieving gaunt male and female figures, probably from a Lamentation scene, with remnant polychromy and some filling to aged fissures, the reverse plain and hollowed suggesting the duo was originally part of a larger altarpiece group, height 39.5 cm, width 25 cm
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A vintage carved elephant tusk, the tusk carved as an elephant train comprising four elephants of graduated size, wrythen motifs to either end and supported on a carved ebonised stand, height 8.5 cm, width 31.5 cm
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An antique European ivory and walnut crucifix, 19th century, the well carved figure with steel nails mounted upon a brass strung cross with contrasting burr walnut veneers to the edges, length 34.5 cm, width 19 cm
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A Russian brass pitcher, circa 1892, with two Imperial eagle stamps with dates to lid, the small pitcher of compressed form having a fine aged patina, with a plain scroll handle and a hinged dome lid with fleur-de-lis style mount and knop, height 21 cm
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A quality set of seven all copper saucepans, a straight-sided nesting set with rivet joined steel handles, height 10 cm, diameter 21 cm, and smaller
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Four large Australian shells comprising two baler shells, a gold lipped mother-of-pearl oyster shell, and a bull's mouth cameo shell, height 13 cm, length 29 cm, width 19 cm, and smaller
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A Wiener Werkstatte Secessionist brass basket by Josef Hoffmann, circa 1905, with monogram WW, rose registration stamp, marked Wiener Werkstatte, monogram of Prof Joseph Hoffman, a shallow bowl with ornamental perforated 'Gitterwerk' borders, a tubular arching arm surmounted by a handle with a conforming lattice motif, punch marks to handle, height 21 cm, diameter 20 cm
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A pair of alabaster lamps with shades, the lamps with stems in the form of gadrooned cups and stiff leaf covers above a socle and a stepped base, with conical cream shades, height 69 cm
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A large bronze Casting of the head and shoulders of a stag after Antoine-Louis Barye (1795-1875), a naturalistic model supported on a black marble base, inscribed signature Barye to the shoulder, height 48 cm, width 31 cm, depth 18 cm
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A fine pair of French ormolu mounted marble vases, late 19th century, in the Louis XV manner, amphora vases in richly veined green black stone with elegant cast vegetal mounts with ornate rims, high set scrolling handles and raised on rose embellished pierced bases, height 31.5 cm
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A pair of Louis XVI style ormolu mantle decorations, late 19th century, the decorations in the form of slender knopped urns with elongated necks decorated with festoons and raised on a shaped and acanthus embellished base with shaped gilt wood stands, height 33 cm, width 19 cm, depth 9.5 cm
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An antique neoclassical bronze Roman Charioteer, 19th century, France, the realistically modelled charioteer with whip raised encouraging his pair of galloping and rearing horses, upon a red marble and bronze base with lion's paw feet, unsigned, height 27.5 cm, length 44.5 cm, width 19 cm
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A signed spelter fox pocket watch holder, circa 1920s, the figure of a fox with forelegs raised on stylised rockwork, signed Pienel to the base, and raised on a black marble stand, height 23.5 cm, length 19.5 cm, width 12 cm
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A signed cold painted Art Deco spelter dancing figure, circa 1920s-30s, signed Le Verrier (Max), in verdigris colours, a nude female figure on one foot striking a balletic pose, incised signature to base and raised on a black marble stand, height 27 cm
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A signed Art Deco style spelter dancing figure, in verdigris green colours and depicting a nude dancing with a crescent shaped sweep of fabric, incised mark of Denis to base and raised on a stepped portoro marble base, height 29 cm, width 20 cm
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A pair of Art Deco spelter squirrel book ends, circa 1920s-30s, the stylised pair in lustrous brown colours upon figured rose and white marble bases, height 11.5 cm, length 11.5 cm, width 7 cm
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An Art Deco spelter and marble seagull lamp, circa 1930s, a tapering ovoid shade with vertical veining beside a pair of seagulls in lustrous green, gold and near black colours flying over waves, upon a veined black marble base faced with contrasting white and green onyx tiles, height 21 cm, length 30 cm, width 9.5 cm
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An Art Deco spelter figure of a woman with a dog, circa 1920s, the cold painted figure of a woman with ivorine face, attired in a fanciful laced medieval dress and accompanied by a borzoi, upon an onyx and black marble base, height 33 cm, width 38 cm, depth 14 cm
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An Art Deco bronze dancing figure by Limousin, circa 1920s-30s, a nude female figure with 'Garcon' hairstyle posed on one leg and holding a sweep of draped fabric, incised signature to base, raised on a black marble plinth with a band of striking green onyx, height 43.5 cm
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A cold painted spelter dancing figure, circa 1920s-30s, the silver painted figure of an acrobatic female dancer in a short tunic posed on one foot and spinning a large hoop, raised on a portoro marble plinth, marked made in France to hem, height 50 cm
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A spelter model of a pheasant, circa 1920s-30s, signature of R.Varnier and foundry stamp, the naturalistically modelled fowl posed upon a rocky outcrop and cold painted in muted ochre and bronze colours, above a green veined black marble base, height 41.5 cm, length 45 cm, width 17 cm
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An Art Deco spelter seagull group, circa 1920s-30s, a pair of dramatically posed gulls in full flight sweeping over waves, in lustrous copper and bronze colours, the waves in green, raised upon a marble base with contrasting trims, height 47.5 cm, width 70 cm
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An Art Deco spelter deer table lamp, circa 1930, a deer in bronze colours beside a white globular shade with slender concentric gilt bands, raised on a mottled grey marble base, height 15 cm, length 25 cm, width 8 cm
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A signed Art Deco spelter figure of a woman with a goat, circa 1920s-30s, signed D.H. Chiparus, a woman in a beaded and scroll patterned gown and a textured cloche, with hands and face in ivorine, teasing a goat with a bouquet of flowers, raised on a portoro marble base, etched signature to base, height 48 cm, length 60 cm, width 15 cm
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An Art Deco spelter gazelle, circa 1930, a recumbent gazelle gazing over its shoulder, in lustrous colours mounted on a black marble base, height 19 cm, length 35 cm, width 10 cm
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An Art Deco spelter figural table lamp, circa 1930, a cold painted figure of a woman in 19th century attire beside globular shade with contrasting pale gold and white frosted bands and narrow gilt rings raised on a mottled yellow marble base, height 23.5 cm, length 21.5 cm, width 9 cm
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An Art Deco spelter elephant group on a marble base, circa 1930, a pair of identical trumpeting elephants realistically modelled and decorated in modulating bronze tones upon an elongated two-tone marble base, height 22 cm, length 60 cm, width 12.5 cm
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An Art Deco figural clock garniture, circa 1920s-30s, signed P. Seca to dial, a diamond shaped dial with Arabic numerals set within a shaped red orange arching case with a boy and girl scrambling across the crest climbing a tree with conforming side tazze, with key and pendulum, height 26.5 cm, length 31 cm, width 11 cm
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A figural spelter and red marble clock garniture, 19th century, the clock with two animated maidens carrying baskets above a shaped red marble plinth enclosing a floral decorated enamel dial with Arabic numerals raised on pierced foliate feet and accompanied by two urn form vases of conforming design, with key and pendulum, height 66 cm, width 34.5 cm, depth 17 cm, (clock) height 47 cm, (urns)
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An ormolu mantle clock in the Louis XVI style, 19th century, with a fine enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minute markings set within a finely cast shaped case with urn finial, formal leafy forms and bead details, with key and pendulum, height 31 cm, length 25 cm, width 15 cm
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An antique French gilt metal figural clock second half 19th century, with maker's mark for S. Marti et Cie, case stamped P.H. Mourey, the silk suspension eight day clock depicting an angel and child beside a drum head with Arab numerals to enamelled cartouches above a lavishly decorated shaped oval base with husks, vegetal and scrolling forms, key and pendulum, height 34 cm, width 37 cm, depth 17 cm
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A gilded spelter figural mantle clock in the Louis XVI manner, 19th century, with a drum head enclosing an enamel dial with Roman numerals beside a water carrier maiden and raised on a demi-lune onyx base trimmed with cast and pierced neoclassical elements, with key and pendulum, height 37 cm, length 35 cm, width 13 cm
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An Art Deco mantle clock, circa 1920s-30s, signed Delattre Armentieres to dial of bold arching form in contrasting figured maroon and yellow marble decorated with formal cast floral, rope and tassel embellishments, the dial with Arabic numerals, upon a stepped and shaped base, with key and pendulum, height 38.5 cm, length 43.5 cm, width 16 cm
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A Louis XV style ormolu cartel clock, late 19th century pierced and cast with shell and scrolling leaf motifs and housing an enamel dial with Roman numerals and Arabic minute markings beneath a domed glass with key and pendulum, length 56 cm, width 32 cm
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An Art Deco spelter model of a pheasant, circa 1920s-30s, the stylised pheasant in lustrous brown colours raised on a black marble base, height 25 cm, length 83 cm, width 12 cm
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A signed Art Deco style bronze dancing girl, the figure of a young girl holding out her ballet skirt, raised on a mottled green marble plinth, with incised mark of F. Paris to base and foundry stamp, height 32 cm
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A signed Art Deco style bronze figure of a girl with a hoop, circa 1920s-30s, the model of a young girl in pantaloons playing with her hoop, incised mark of F. Paris to base, with foundry mark and design number a 7685, raised on a portoro marble plinth, height 26.5 cm
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An Art Deco signed cold painted spelter musician figure, circa 1920s, signed Leste, the green toned figure of a seated female figure playing a double flute and raised on a two-tone marble base, signed to marble, height 11.5 cm, length 31 cm, width 10 cm
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An Art Nouveau bronze figure, 'Flutiste, circa 1900, signed E. Piron, (Eugene), a dancing pan type figure clad in a fur loin cloth and playing a double flute, incised signature to base and Unis-France stamp, raised on a stepped octagonal green marble base, height 30 cm
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An Art Nouveau Bacchanalian bronze figure, circa 1900, unsigned but attributed to Eugene Piron, a male reveller with a grape vine girdle and a similar wreath to his head dancing and clashing cymbals, unsigned and raised on a stepped octagonal green marble base, height 34 cm
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An Egyptian themed bronze Art Deco table lamp, circa 1920s-30s, the striking figure of a nude male figure in gold colours with head dress and holding aloft a moulded glass shade and raised upon a trapezoid shaped marble base, height 39 cm
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An Art Deco bronze dancing figure after Pierre laurel, the cold painted figure of the rose dancer in patinated green colours raised on a tiered brown onyx demi-lune base, unsigned but numbered 45, height 26.5 cm
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An Art Deco panther on a marble base, circa 1920s-30s, a large figure standing upon a chiselled plinth and a long portoro marble plinth, height 41.5 cm, length 49 cm, width 18 cm
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A spelter model of an Alsatian, circa 1920s-30s naturalistically modelled as an alert recumbent dog on a mottled oyster grey marble base, height 20 cm, length 34.5 cm, width 13.5 cm
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A magnificent Austrian bronze figure of an elephant with game hunters and carrying a slain tiger, circa 1900, with maker's cipher mark for Franz Bergmann (1861-1936), the realistically modelled elephant in muted cold painted colours carrying a tiger across its back, with a mahout and male figure running alongside maker's cipher to the saddle, additional marks to belly including number 1412, height 24 cm, width 27 cm
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A magnificent French Empire style ormolu and Porphyry centrepiece, late 19th century Superbly cast as a boat shaped shell flanked by high set female demi-figures in exotic dress carrying floral branches, raised upon a pedestal to the architectural plinth embellished to each face with lyre and scrollwork plaques, height 72 cm, width 46 cm
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A spelter figural clock garniture with model by Auguste Moreau, later 19th century, with name and title plate, the figural group, 'Char De la Fortune' in patinated bronze colours raised upon a shaped green onyx base, the dial with Arabic numerals and floral embellishments set within a shaped green onyx base upon foliate feet accompanied by ornate conforming candlestick side pieces, key and pendulum, height 76 cm, width 40 cm, depth 23.5 cm
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An Art Deco cold painted figure with dogs group, circa 1920s-30s featuring a woman in a green and gold flowing gown holding a bird and flanked by a pair of seated Alsatians, raised on a black marble base further decorated with geometric shapes in black and veined cream marble, height 33 cm, length 56 cm, width 12.5 cm
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A Louis XVI style three piece ormolu mantle clock garniture, late 19th century, marked Au Negre and Sarazin Paris to dial finely cast with a drum head enclosing an enamel dial with Roman numerals ram's head and laurel wreath handles, an urn surmount and other pierced and patterned neoclassical elements, the four light candelabra side pieces conforming, with key and pendulum, height 38 cm, length 29 cm, width 15 cm
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A fine Art Deco Egyptian inspired marble clock garniture, circa 1920s, in mottled rouge marble, the portico style clock surmounted by a winged sphinx, the arching body enclosing an enamel dial with Arabic numerals and supported by four columns and a pair of jauntily posed caryatids in short tunics, with matching caryatid side tazze, key and pendulum, height 66 cm, width 36.5 cm, depth 16 cm
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An onyx Art Deco clock garniture, circa 1920s, with maker's trademark F C enclosing a cog of arching triangular form with an oval Lucite dial with cherry coloured Arabic numerals, embellished with grey angled stripes and a small cast floral motif, the side tazze of conforming design, key and pendulum, height 27 cm, width 39 cm, depth 12.5 cm
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A bronze figure, 'Reverie Au Champ' by Corneille Henri Theunissen (1863-1918), the cast patinated bronze depicting a pensive female harvester at rest, her fork beside her, incised signature of Corneille Theunissen, twice incised with foundry marks for Susse Freres, Paris, height 43 cm, width 50 cm
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An antique Japanese six panel screen Meiji period, 1868-1912 depicting figures and their horses in sublime landscape settings, beautifully and subtly decorated en grisaille with red accents, the paper panels upon gilt leaf backing on navy and gold silk, framed with patterned paper to the reverse, height 171 cm, width 370 cm
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A two section Mizuya (kitchen Tansu), in red toned wood, each section with an arrangement of three drawers with iron swing handles and a pair of sliding cupboard doors with vertical slat details, height 115 cm, width 115 cm, depth 50 cm
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A porcelain panel table screen, the circular panel decorated with a bird upon a bamboo stem above a flowering peony shrub, set within a pierced and carved square wooden frame with a trestle base, height 62 cm, width 51 cm, depth 21 cm
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A moulded polychrome vase, early 20th century, the thickly potted high shouldered baluster vase with lion head and ring handles, depicting courtly narrative scenes in high relief decorated with thin glazed colours to two reserves upon a diaper patterned yellow ground moulded apocryphal reign mark underside, height 34 cm
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A rosewood ruyi sceptre, in honey toned rosewood, pierced and carved as stems of lotus with leaves flower heads and buds, embellished with two small frogs perched upon a leaf, length 38 cm
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Four finely decorated Cantonese export tea wares: a teapot, creamer and two plates Republic era, 20th century each profusely decorated in a sophisticated famille rose palette with a profusion of auspicious flowers upon a gilded ground, a six-character marks underside, height 10 cm, and 7 cm, diameter 17.5 cm
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A moulded celadon Longquan type vase baluster shaped with a slender neck and flat rim, flowers and tendrils to the body between a key fret collar, stiff leaf border to the neck and lappets to, the foot, height 22.5 cm
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A blue and white pot, late Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the ovoid pot loosely decorated with a dragon and phoenix flying between flaming clouds between a collar with bat motifs and a border of waves to the base, concentric blue rings to the glazed base, height 13.5 cm
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Four Cantonese export ware plates Republic era, mid 20th century, the mandarin rose plates typically decorated with reserved decoration featuring figures engaged in narratives in garden pavilion settings, and birds, insects and flora, upon a profusely embellished ground, one plate as found diameter 19 cm
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A ten piece Japanese Kutani porcelain tea service probably Taisho period, early 20th century comprising a teapot, covered sugar bowl, two tea cups and saucers, side plates and dinner plates, delicately decorated with landscape and pavilion scenes in a muted soft grey, brown and green palette with hints of red upon a white ground, with gilt brocaded borders, Dai Nippon painted marks underside, height 19 cm, (teapot) diameter 24.5 cm, (plate) and smaller
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A bamboo tea caddy, a Yixing type teapot and a boxwood drum stand, the tea caddy with flat lid, inscribed with date, 1958, lightly engraved and inked with a lotus flower, a russet toned small teapot with elegant lotus decoration in low relief, and a small pierced 'Drum table' with quatrefoil piercings, beading and raised script, height 9.5 cm, and smaller
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A Japanese cloisonne vase Meiji period 1868-1912, the baluster vase with a trumpet neck embellished in colours with patterned and stylised formal floral borders to the neck, collar and shoulder above a deep lappet frieze with four writhing dragons and pendant floral devices upon a deep teal blue ground, with copper edges to the rims, height 37 cm
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A blue and white tulip vase, the lobed vase with five apertures, decorated with prunus flower heads to the slender neck and body, and two shaped reserves with narrative scenes depicting scholars in garden settings, between lingzhi fungus and lappet borders, height 21 cm
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A Satsuma Koro, a lacquer box, a part sake set, 20th century, a square section baluster koro raised on shaped legs and having a domed lid and figural finial, partial signature and red seal mark, a cinnabar style box typically decorated with landscape and figural scenes, a part sake set comprising two double gourd bottles and five little cups decorated with flowers and fungus heads, height 13 cm, (koro) height 5.5 cm, length 18 cm, width 9.5 cm, (box)
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A rosewood and mother-of-pearl brush pot, 20th century, the hexagonal straight sided pot with inlaid mother-of-pearl vases and flora each edge trimmed with shaped metal brackets, height 18.5 cm, length 19 cm, width 16 cm
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A jade figural seal, the deep olive green seal of square form with seal script underside and surmounted by the figure of a snarling lion dog, height 8.5 cm
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A small bronze jardiniere, the heavy gauge tapering square section pot decorated in relief to each face with auspicious flora and raised on integral bracket feet, bearing antique seal script to cartouche underside, height 8 cm, length 10 cm, width 10 cm
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A relief carved zitan brush pot cylindrical with a scalloped rim and continuously decorated with lotus flowers and buds, height 15 cm, diameter 12.5 cm
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A green black spinach jade bowl, the bowl in deep mottled colours with a band to the rim and raised on a shallow foot ring, height 6 cm, diameter 14 cm
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A jade brush rest carved as a Scholar's rock, the roughly hewn celadon jade carved as a rest for two brushes, length 11 cm
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A Jun Ware style ewer, the ewer of traditional shape with a mottled teal glaze splashed with purple red colours falling shy of the base, height 21 cm
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Two seals: Shoushan stone and jade, a petite plinth in shoushan stone relief carved with figures in mountainous settings, and a cylindrical seal with a rounded top in bright green colours small fault, length 6 cm
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A celadon jade page turner, the small turner of typical elongated form with rounded ends, lightly relief carved and pierced with prunus blossom and leaf motifs, a flat unadorned silver band serving as a finger rest, length 21 cm
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An antique painted wooden head of a Buddha probably Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, the Buddha of typically serene form with downcast eyes, long ear lobes and tightly coiled hair with prominent ushnisha, with remnant colours, mounted on a modern and removable display stand, height 36 cm
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A Chinese silver gilt, enamel and jewelled magnifying glass, 20th century, the circular hand glass with a decorative frame embellished with filigree work, enamelled leaves, flowers and semi-precious cabochon stones upon a wire mesh ground, a similar handle set to one side with white jade and flanked by enamelled bat mounts, stamped silver, length 19.5 cm
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A pair of small cups in the Ming style, the pair of craquelware cups decorated to the exterior with four underglaze roundels of fruiting peach branches in brown with red inflections, concentric blue rings to the rim and base, bearing apocryphal Chenghua marks underside within double borders, height 3.5 cm, diameter 7 cm
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A small Shoushan stone mountain with stand depicting two elderly male figures, one walking and one sitting beneath a craggy tree in a mountainous village setting, in shaped amber coloured stone and housed in an fitted rosewood display stand, height 8 cm
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Two jade items: an ornament and a pendant, a small carved and pierced ornament in celadon with a splash of bright green a creamy celadon pendant of near rectangular form with pierced arabesques and planes of textured spots, length 5.5 cm, width 4 cm
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