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Decorative Arts & Collectables — Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.

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Auction House:Leski Auctions Pty. Ltd.Number of lots recorded:889
Sale Title:Decorative Arts & CollectablesLots with images:818
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:628
Date:20-Oct-2019
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Paul Follot French Art Deco settee, circa 1925 190 cm across the arms
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A pair of Art Deco leadlight bi-fold interior doors, circa 1930, 198.5 cm high, each panel 40.5 cm wide, 162 cm wide total
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Nest of three Chinoiserie coffee tables, circa 1920s, 57 cm high, 37 cm wide, 31 cm deep
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A miniature four drawer chest, stained pine, early 20th century, 36 cm high
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A pair of Trompe L'oiel side tables, circle of Fornasetti, circa 1950s, 52 cm high, 72 cm wide, 52 cm deep
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A four branch timber and brass table lamp with coloured glass shades, mid 20th century, 91 cm high
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An Italian umbrella stand, gilt metal finish, circa 1950, 64 cm high
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Italian expanding standard lamp with three adjustable shades, mid 20th century, rare. Approximately 265 cm high
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A pair of Danish rosewood armchairs upholstered in red leather, circa 1950s, 69 cm across the arms
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A Danish 7 piece rosewood dining setting with drawer leaf extension and red leather upholstery, circa 1950s
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French sunburst convex mirror, mid 20th century, 88 cm across
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An American folk art table with Texas long horn top and painted finish, circa 1930s 76 cm high, 107 cm wide, 73 cm deep
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Blacksmith's bellows coffee table, 50 cm high, 179 cm wide, 60 cm deep
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A seven piece retro perspex and chrome dining setting with oval glass top, circa 1970
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A gilt finished metal ewer based table lamp and shade, 106 cm high overall
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Retro Australian executives desk, Australian walnut, possibly by Rosandro or Zoureff of Melbourne, circa 1970, 73 cm high, 228 cm wide, 107 cm deep
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Ray Godfree retro fruit comport, inlaid sycamore, orange, ebony and conkerberry, 20th century, signed and timbers named on the base, 16 cm high, 38 cm diameter
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A pair of walnut display cabinets, late 20th century, 202 cm high, 87 cm wide, 30 cm deep
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A tribal kilim flat weave rug, circa 1930, 500 cm long, 86 cm wide
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Turkoman Beshir Persian rug, hand knotted pure wool with natural dyes, early to mid 20th century, 230 x 155 cm
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A Persian red and blue pattern rug, 20th century, 190 x 125 cm
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Adadeh rug, south West Iran, circa 1950, 166 x 107 cm
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Karajeh runner, Northern Iran, 393 x 79 cm
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Lilihan runner, south West Iran, 293 x 83 cm
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Baktyari rug, south West Iran, 201 x 155 cm
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Fredan rug, south West Iran, circa 1940, 264 x 199 cm
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Baktyari rug, south West Iran, circa 1930, 303 x 215 cm
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Lilihan rug, south West Iran, 228 x 150 cm
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A Qum silk hand knotted rug, Persian, 20th century, 180 x 180 cm
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A fine cotton and silk Persian rug, 300 x 182 cm
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Unicef exhibition, Chicago, 1960, tapestry in the style Ramses Wissa Wasseff, 97 x 135 cm
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An album of 20 Scottish scene albumen prints, captioned and bound in red morocco, print size 19 x 29 cm
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Group of 60 entertainment publicity and promotional photographs, many captioned on reverse, mainly mid 20th century; together with a miniature cricket bat 'Lord's Taverners old Australia vs. The Crusaders old rest of the World' with signatures including, Greg Chappell, Max Walker, Sunil Gavaskar, Derek Underwood, Geoff Thomson, Graeme Yallop and others, circa 1990
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Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, a signed photograph (15 x 10.5 cm) of his Holiness the Dalai Lama. The signature was obtained directly from the office of the H. H. The Dalai Lama and comes with the original folder. (2 items).
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Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685), school of, tavern scene, oil on tin panel, signed lower left 'Ostade', 25 x 21.5 cm
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Scottish school, highland sheep in landscape, watercolour, signed and dated lower left 'A.B. 1925', 28 x 20 cm
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Alexander Benois Di Stetto (1896-1979), two Swiss alpine scenes, watercolour and gouache, one signed lower right 'A. Benois Di Stetto, 1939', 50 x 60 cm each
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Artist unknown, portrait of a Chinese woman, acrylic on canvas, 85 x 85 cm
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Marc Chagall (1887-1985), circus series, colour lithograph, limited edition 167/500, signed in pencil lower margin, 62 x 73 cm
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Thomas Musgrave Joy (after), I) the lawn Tattersall's Hyde park corner, II) the Yard Tattersall's the Saturday before Derby, hand coloured steel engravings, impressively framed and mounted, 75 x 148 cm overall and 79 x 126 cm overall
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Nicholas Hely Hutchinson (British), Hong Kong by night, gouache on paper, signed lower right, 65 cm x 99 cm
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Seven 18th century French Vue D'Optique prints, hand coloured engravings, framed and mounted, image 28 x 45 cm each
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W.H Burger-Willing (1882-1960) the goat, oil on canvas, signed lower left, 36 x 52 cm
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Diego Velazquez (after) an older Philip IV of Spain, original painted in 1656, 19th century, oil on canvas, 64 x 54 cm
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Norman Rockwell (after), the Connoisseur, acrylic on canvas, 99 x 79 cm
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Pietro of Aquila Imagines Farnesiani Cubiculi frontispiece copper engraving, 28 x 41 cm; c.1680s Title-page to 'Imagines Farnesiani cubiculi cum ipsarum monocromatibus et ornamentis'; two winged males, swathed in billowing cloth, sit on top of a voluted lunette featuring the title, and hold aloft a rectangular cartouche with an inscription framed by sculpted lion heads.
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Arthur pond (1705 - 1758) an etching based on a painting by Giacomo Cortese in the collection of Richard Houlditch, 1735, coloured in shades of grey 19.5 x 27 cm.
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Adrien Manglard (1695 - 1760) Prospetto interno dell'Antiteatro Flavio, chiamato Coloseo dalla Statua Colossale, che era nel Capo della via Sacra. Copper engraving, dated 1753 30 x 55 cm
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John Hamilton Mortimer (1740 - 1779) Cassandra from twelve characters from Shakespeare originally published March 15, 1776, published 1809 40 x 31.5 cm
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Richard Morris some panels from 'Panoramic view round the Regent's park. From drawings taken on the spot by Rich.d Morris, Author of Essays on landscape Gardening'. Hand-coloured aquatints, (London, R. Ackermann, 1831) Lacks covers and is incomplete but includes views of Cumberland terrace, Sussex place, St. Katherine's church and Hospital, Cumberland Villas, St. Andrew's place, park crescent and Hanover terrace. Laid down in two panels, each 60 x 50 cm (overall).
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Various engravings and etchings, all mounted or framed, with images including St. Paul's Cathedral, London; the Choir of St. Paul's Cathedral; comb Abbey in Warwickshire (by Johannes Kip), etc. (7 items); various sizes.
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View of Hong Kong from East point from nature by Heine, figures by brown Lith. Of Sarony & Co., New York. 1856 hand-coloured engraving, 15 x 23 cm
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Alfred Kirchhoff (1838 - 1907) Japaner (nach einer Photographie in Dammann's 'Anthropologisch-ethnologischen album.) (Kassel; Theodor Fischer, 1884) lithograph on thick card, 77 x 63 cm; from a series of 12 images of 'racial types' issued in large format for school instruction titled 'Rassenbilder zum Gebrauch beim geographischen Unterricht' (race pictures for use in Geography lessons).
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Kopf (Austrian, 1873 - 1953) Kirschen und Pfirsiche (Cherries and peaches) oil on board signed and dated 1900 upper right Josef Kopf (Austrian, 1873 - 1953) Kirschen und Pfirsiche (Cherries and peaches) oil on board signed and dated 1900 upper right 22 x 30 cm
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Franz von Bayros (1866 - 1924) the love swing pen and coloured inks, drawing on paper, laid down on wood, 16.5 x 14.5, initialed lower right. Together with the book 'The Amorous drawings of the Marquis von Bayros' (Part 1), the Cythera press, New York, 1968.
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Robert Gibbings (Irish, 1889 - 1958) the lost anchor 1936 wood engraving, initialed R.G. In the plate lower right signed in lower margin; from a limited edition of 200 23 x 22 cm (image)
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Harold Byrne (1899 - 1966), Self portrait, oil on canvas on card, signed in pencil verso, 34 x 27 cm
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Emerson Harold Groom (1890 - 1983) London bridge engraving, titled at left and signed in pencil at right, 27 x 36 cm.
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Henri Matisse (French, 1869-1954) Jeune Femme Assise (young woman seated), 1942. Pen and ink, signed and dated '12/42' lower left, 51.8 x 39.8 cm. Framed. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from the Matisse Archives, dated January 24, 2005 with registration no. H132. Provenance: from Matisse's estate to the Pierre Matisse gallery in New York; then acquired by a private collector in Connecticut in 1959; thereafter held in a private collection in Melbourne. Acquired by the present owner at public…
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Artist unknown Corinthian capital charcoal sketch on paper, 43 x 53 cm.
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Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997) 'Litho-Litho' lithograph in colour signed in pencil lower right, dated 1970 and editioned 2/54, publisher's blind stamp in lower margin. 89 x 121 cm
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Sonia Delaunay (1884 - 1979) Tristan Tzara with his monocle lithograph, signed in pencil lower right, 37 x 16 cm, from a 1977 limited edition of 25.
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Catanach's carriage clock in original presentation boxes, marked 'Catanach's Armadale, Victoria, Broome, Western Australia, 15 cm high
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A 19th century French gilt bronze figural mantel clock, (movement not original), 49 cm high
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A French mantel clock, time and strike with open escapement in Belgium black marble case with ormolu mounts, 19th century, 41 cm high
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A German musical clock with 4½' disc player accompanied by approximately 45 discs, late 19th century, 32 cm high
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Watchmaker's novelty advertising clock shop display, mid 20th century 44 cm high
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A French carriage clock, brass and glass cased, 19th century, 14 cm high
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A Swiss table clock in timber case by Buren, early 20th century, 16 cm high
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An English grandfather clock with subsidiary calendar dial, by Thomas Haden, Stourbridge, England, circa 1760. Fine mahogany case with string inlay and brass mounts, 217 cm high
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Seth Thomas time and strike hanging wall clock with inlaid timber case, mid 19th century, 95 cm high
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A French 3 piece clock set, Sevres porcelain with ormolu mounts, 19th century 35 cm high
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Kieninger & Obergfell German 400 day dome clock, 20th century, 30.5 cm high
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A rare pair of Chinese cloisonne cranes on carved wooden bases, Qing Dynasty, Daoguang period 1820-1850, 47 cm high
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A fine Chinese cloisonne and silver incense burner, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, 13 cm high
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A pair of Chinese cloisonne vases, 19th century, 15 cm high
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Ando Jubei Japanese cloisonne enamel vase with coy carp decoration and gold wire, Meiji period, Taisho era, circa 1900-1920, Ando seal mark to base in silver wire, 25 cm high
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A Japanese bronze tiger statue on wooden stand, Meiji period, statue length 49 cm
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Two 18th century Chinese export ware porcelain bowls with famille rose decoration in the English style, circa 1760. 23 cm across
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A Chinese export ware famille rose porcelain snuff box, circa 1800. 9.5 cm across
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Imari ware Japanese floor vase by Fukagawa, Meiji period, eight character seal mark to base with old label, 79 cm high
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Satsuma Kinkozan Japanese earthenware vase with autumn scene decoration, Meiji period, circa 1900, signed in gold script seal 'Kinkozan' and repeated impressed seal mark, with carved wooden stand. The vase 30 cm high
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Satsuma Japanese earthenware vase, Meiji period, seal make to base, 25 cm high
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Satsuma Japanese reticulated pottery vase by Ryozan, Meiji period, 15.5 cm high
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Satsuma Kinkozan Japanese lotus shaped earthenware bowl with enamel pomegranate, butterflies and peony designs, Meiji period, late 19th early 20th century, ten character seal mark to the side. 16 cm high, 44 cm across
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A fine Chinese porcelain bowl decorated with dragons amidst a floral motif, glazed in Imperial yellow and turquoise ground, 19th century 9.5 cm high, 23 cm diameter
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A Japanese Kutani 1000 flowers porcelain teapot with stopper; signed to base, circa 1920s. 25 cm tall.
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A Chinese Imperial yellow cloisonne dragon charger with four character mark to rim, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, 31.5 cm diameter
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain vase, late Qing Dynasty, 19th/20th century four character mark to base 26 cm high
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A pair of Chinese bronze horse statues with ornate brass inlay, 19th/20th century, 98 cm high, 91 cm long
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A Chinese blue and white underglaze bowl with enamel highlights, circa 1840, 10.5 cm high, 22 cm diameter
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A Japanese fine silk embroidery of a sea eagle, Meiji period, 160 cm x 118 cm
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A Japanese fine silk embroidery of a rural scene, Meiji period, 148 cm x 85 cm
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A Chinese bronze temple dog on wooden stand, Qing Dynasty, 19th century, the statue 22 cm high, 23 cm long
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A Japanese ornamental Samurai helmet, cast metal and brass with silk cord, Meiji period, 28 cm high
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Chinese blue and white porcelain tea caddy, tea bowls, saucers and serving bowl with European gilded highlights, 18th century, the caddy 13 cm high
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A Chinese porcelain 'Willow' patterned washer, 19th century 19 cm across
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A Chinese blue and white porcelain lidded jar, early Qing Dynasty, 21 cm high
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A Chinese blue and white lidded bowl, Ming Dynasty, 7 cm high, 9 cm across
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Dynasty. Screens 14 x 9 cm each. Pair of small Chinese painted marble table screens in timber stands, Qing Dynasty, 14 x 9 cm
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