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Made in New Zealand — Webb's

Auction House:Webb'sNumber of lots recorded:162
Sale Title:Made in New ZealandLots with images:161
Auction Location:AucklandPrices available:112
Date:11-Dec-2019
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A Gavin Chilcott hand-painted plate, signed, dated and entitled 'Rampini Radda in Chianti' to underside, diameter 29 cm
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An early Barry Brickell bowl, blue salt-glazed stoneware, impressed potter's cypher to the lower margin, height 10 cm, diameter 32.5 cm
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An Anna Palnu for Garry Nash large plate, signed and dated 'Anna Palnu for Nash glass '02' to base, diameter 48 cm
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An Olive Jones blue glaze vase, signature incised to base, height 10 cm, diameter 13 cm
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A pair of Olive Jones vases, one in a soft apricot glaze height 7 cm, diameter 11 cm, the other in a blue glaze height 9 cm, diameter 8 cm. Both with incised signature to base.
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A selection of four Billy Apple signed bottles of 1981 Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot, 1981, Sutton Baron, Cabernet Sauvignon / Merlot, Collard Brothers Ltd, Henderson, New Zealand.
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A Fiona Pardington Crown Lynn jug, signed and dated 1993 to base. Makers stamp to base, height 7 cm, diameter 14.5 cm
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An Aquila by Cameron Brown urn, classical ovoid urn shaping, with impressed Egyptian motifs to body. Attached makers tag, height 16.5 cm, diameter 17.5 cm
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A set of five Richard Parker signal plates, terracotta, mid-2000s. Largest depth 12.5 cm
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An Ian Firth baluster vase, in a green and blue textured glaze, with shades of brown to one side. Outwards flaring mouth, height 24 cm, diameter 22 cm
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A Ian Firth spherical vase, in a bulbous spherical shape, with flared mouth and strap handle. Graduating from brown in the lower, through turquoise and finishing in sand coloured glaze in the upper, height 28 cm, diameter 20 cm
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Gimblett, Max. Dogs of Auckland. Edition 48/100, signed. Auckland, the Holloway Press,1998, 18 pages.
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Max Gimblett, untitled ceramic, glazed ceramic, 2007, signed 'Max Gimblett and dated 2007'. 8 x 30 cm
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An Eric Orr for Dilana 'Marquette' rug, showing a 'Max Robot Head' inspired design, over a dark navy ground. Created by American artist Eric Orr, a pivotal figure in the 'Light and space' movement, and hand tufted by luxury rug manufacturer, Dilana, length 73 cm, width 80 cm
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Bill Hammond, puppet, acrylic, carved wood, wire and string. Signed and dated 1970, length 41.5 cm, width 15 cm, diameter 5.5 cm, Hammond has become a celebrated and enigmatic exponent of what is bizarre, surreal and quirky in New Zealand Art. Appropriately, he began life as a toy-maker before taking up oil painting in 1981. A note from the vendor, 'Bill came to me in my workshop in Fitzgerald Ave and asked me to make boots for his boys. I knew bill through the Atlantis market where he sold toys and I sold…
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A vintage composite Maori lamp, height 66 cm, shade, diameter 26 cm
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A Titianware teapot, in a mottled brown glaze, with a raised line of beading to top and bottom, height 18 cm, width 23 cm
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A Jeannie van Der Putten cube set, three cubes of graduating size, hand-painted in pastel tones with a palm tree to each side on all. Largest height 10 cm, width 10 cm, diameter 10 cm
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A pair of Paul Hartigan Tattooware, coffee cups and saucers no, 3 & 4, 1995. Signed and dated, height 6.5 cm
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A Fane Flaws for Dilana 'Skellington, Mumsie' hall runner, a hand-tufted hallway runner manufactured by Christchurch based Dilana, and designed by New Zealand contemporary practitioner Fane Flaws. Showing simplified female stick form over a grey ground with alternating red and blue lines, length 350 cm, width 89 cm
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An Ernst Plischke chair, C. 1948. Constructed from New Zealand pine with hessian webbing and canvas backs, complete with original foam squabs and reupholstered in cream fabric, height 78 cm
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A rare Ernst Pilschke coffee table, C. 1948, in radiata pine, with integral magazine rack, length 56 cm, width 33.5 cm, height 38.5 cm
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A Keith Murray for Wedgwood large vase, C. 1940. Raised on circular foot, with Art Deco styling. Stamped to base, height 23 cm, diameter 18 cm
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A Keith Murray for Wedgwood large vase, C.1940. An early design, with lathe banding and matte white glaze, height 23 cm, diameter 21 cm
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A Crown Lynn slip cast vase, ovoid shape with banding to body, flared neck. Shape 2070 impressed to base, height 26 cm, diameter 20 cm
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An Ernest Shufflebotham for Crown Lynn vase, Hand-potted ovoid vase, with circular foot. Shape 9 incised to the bowl with Crown Lynn factory mark, height 11 cm, diameter 13.5 cm
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An Ernest Shufflebotham for Crown Lynn vase, Hand-potted ovoid vase, with lathe turned centre bands. Shape 11 incised to the bowl with Crown Lynn factory mark, height 13 cm, diameter 11 cm
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An Ernest Shufflebotham for Crown Lynn vase, Hand-potted ovoid vase, with lathe banding to the lower section. Shape 57 incised to the bowl with Crown Lynn factory mark. Hairline crack to base, height 18 cm, diameter 15 cm
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An Ernest Shufflebotham for Crown Lynn vase, Hand-potted ovoid vase, with banding to the lower and top section. Shape 47 incised to the bowl with Crown Lynn factory mark, height 19 cm, diameter 14 cm
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A Crown Lynn Toby jug, blue maker's stamp to base, height 18 cm
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A pair of Crown Lynn Nautilus vases, double shell mantle vase raised on a seabed. Both with impressed 2067 mark to base, height 16 cm, width 28 cm, diameter 11 cm
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A Michael Draper trestle table, New Zealand designed and made, late-20th century. Steel framed legs with white Formica top. Label on reverse, height 70 cm, width 180 cm, diameter 80 cm
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A rare Crown Lynn mottled green glazed kiwi, accents of peach glazing, fractional markings to base, height 12 cm, width 14 cm
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Three Richard Parker canoe vessels, Largest, length 64.5 cm, width 16 cm
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An early Crown Lynn trickle glaze kiwi, mottled red, brown and pale glaze. Fractional markings to base, height 12 cm, width 14 cm
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A pair of Crown Lynn kingfisher 'Flower Frogs', one black with minor surface chips, and one white, both made using slip cast method, height 15 cm
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A pair of Paul Hartigan Churchware – Jesus and Mary cups, 1997. Signed and dated, height 8.6 cm
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A William Seuffert Colonial wine table, inlaid with New Zealand native timbers in a marquetry star motif. Raised on turned baluster base with carved tripod legs, height 72 cm, diameter 56 cm
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A New Zealand wood inlaid table, the square top marquetry inlaid with New Zealand native timbers in a starburst geometric formation, raised on a central turned column with four splayed curved legs, height 70 cm, width 59 cm
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A pair of Colonial kauri Scotch chests, C. 1870, Auckland manufactured. Each with three full drawers below the top with two shorts drawers, two hat drawers, and one long drawer. The sides decorated with scrolled corbels and raised on a platform base, width 128.5 cm, height 146 cm, diameter 55 cm
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A map of the New Edinburgh purchase and reserve for Natives, lithographic print, printed 1844 by James and Luke Hansard, lithographed by J.Arrowsmith. 59 x 46 cm
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A plan map for the City of Wellington, lithographic print, printed 1842 by Luke and James Hansard, lithographed by J.Arrowsmith. 48 x 61 cm
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A plan map of Russell, lithographic print, printed August 1842 by Luke and James Hansard, lithographed by J.Arrowsmith. 29 x 40.5 cm
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A map of the Harbour of Otago, lithographic print, printed June 1845 by Luke and James Hansard, lithograph by J.Arrowsmith. 29 x 41 cm
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A sterling silver and paua ink stand, paua inlaid with two sterling silver ink wells, length 23 cm, width 14 cm
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A Sir Edmund Hillary signed ice axe, a vintage ice axe boldly signed at a later date by Sir Edmund Hillary. With a steel pick and shovel head, and the wooden shaft tapering into a steel point. Impressed maker's mark to pick head. Wear consistent with age and use, length 75 cm, width 30 cm (pick head)
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A papa hou, Maori treasure box, of shallow rectangular shape, this box held the treasured feathers and ornaments owned by high-ranking people, similar to a waka huia, a later version of treasure box carved in the shape of a canoe. The lid is decorated with carved wheku faces, intricate designs throughout the box. Handles pierced and sculpted as high-relief wheku heads, height 50, length 38 cm, diameter 14 cm
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A rare model waka taua, Maori war canoe, of carved wood, with a raised stern (taurapa) displaying an ancestral figure in high relief, the prow (tauihu) distinguished by a projecting carved figure with paua inlaid eyes and a protruding defiant tongue probably depicting Tumatauenga, the god of war. The hull is decorated with intricately carved koru and inset with iridescent paua eyes. The different sections being held together by fibre strings. Waka Taua were truly impressive vessels, that could reach up to…
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A superb hoe, Maori ceremonial paddle, Mid/Late-19th century, large and impressive ceremonial paddle, distinguished by the remarkable wealth of carved decoration. The convex front of the blade features mirrored mangopare as part of the kowhaiwhai design, representing the hammerhead shark, a symbol of strength and power. Embellished with pakati (dog-tooth notches) and haehae (parallel grooves) meticulously sculpted all-over, arranged in rauponga patterns framing the mangopare sections, and extending over…
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A pair of rare Crown Lynn Corgi bookends, each a pair of playful corgis jostling to peer over the garden wall. Unmarked, height 12 cm, length 9.5 cm (each)
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A tall Ian Firth turquoise vase, tapering inwards at the waist and with outwards flaring mouth, height 63 cm
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An Olive Jones squat vase, with flaring trumpet neck and horizontal ribbing to the body. In a lustrous blue glaze. Signature and '23' incised to base, height 11 cm, diameter 12 cm
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An Olive Jones green vase, with flared neck and daubs of sky blue over green glaze, height 11 cm, diameter 12 cm
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A New Zealand wall rug, C. 1970s, woven wool. 126 x 116 cm
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A mid-century lounge chair, with inwards tapering legs and curved arm rests, freshly reupholstered in a deep navy velvet, height 67.5 cm, width 65 cm, diameter 64 cm
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A Backhouse Safari chair and ottoman. Founded in 1948 by Joe Backhouse, the iconic Wellington furniture manufacturer produced some stunning examples of design such as this one, their take on the classic safari chair. With the teak frame featuring the exposed stitching joining the buttoned leather seat and slung leather arms. Chair height 96 cm, width 64 cm, diameter 80 cm, ottoman height 40 cm, width 64 cm, diameter 50 cm
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An industrial copper 'Boiler Room' table, designed and manufactured in Auckland. Copper wrapped dining table set on mild steel base. Copper ex Auckland public library roof, height 76 cm, width 93 cm, length 245 cm
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A Don Lounge Recliner, crafted in solid mahogany, with shaped arms and reupholstered seat and back. Reclining feature with an outwards folding footrest, height 93 cm, width 70 cm, diameter 80 cm
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Two Richard Parker square dishes, length 24 cm, width 12 cm, height 4 cm
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A contemporary sideboard by Michael Draper design, New Zealand designed and made, late-20th century. Steel frame with white Formica panels and frosted sliding glass doors. Label on reverse, height 62 cm, width 203 cm, diameter 49 cm
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Don Ramage, shallow stoneware bowl, length 29 cm, width 29.5 cm
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Four Philip Luxton lotus fountain heads, one with faults, in duck egg and blue glazes. Largest height 16 cm, diameter 26 cm
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A Billy apple 'As good as Gold' 1990 Robart & Butler bottle of dessert wine, Auckland region, 375ml. 'As good as Gold' was named by the artist, Billy apple, who also designed the label and packaging. The label displays a Walter Pater's poem of 1876 Dionysus, the Greek god of the wine. Quoted in Wystan Curnow, Tales of gold.
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A pair of pounamu bookends, contemporary minimalist design with sloped ends and refined corners and edges, height 13 cm, width 11 cm, diameter 4.5 cm weight 1.43kg each8
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A New Zealand made chess table and pieces, a square chess table raised on knopped and fauceted legs, and a suite of modernist hand carved kauri chess pieces. Table height 70.5 cm, width 80 cm, diameter 80 cm, largest chess piece height 15 cm
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A Garth Chester Curvesse chair, C. 1944, bent plywood, height 82 cm, width 60 cm, diameter 62 cm, Auckland born Garth Chester (1916-1968) is a pioneer of New Zealand design and, just looking at the Curvesse chair, it isn't hard to see why., following in the footsteps of Gerrit Rietveld and Marcel Breuer whilst borrowing from Japanese minimalism Chester created something that is uniquely kiwi, using a 'No 8 wire' response with materials he had easy access to (ply) and his own mechanised presses., Author…
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A Backhouse Safari easy chair, framed in solid teak, with a supple leather buttoned seat, a Backhouse take on the classic safari chair, height 78 cm, width 64 cm, diameter 75 cm
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An oak and mahogany Viking chair, C. 1960s, manufactured in New Zealand, fully reupholstered, height 90 cm, width 60 cm, diameter 70 cm
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A Broadhead Brothers sofa and daybed, with humble beginnings in Auckland's Penrose, Broadhead Brothers secured the licence to produce Fler furniture designed by Fred Lowen. Handcrafted in beech with tapering arms and freshly upholstered memory foam cushions, the reclining function fully functional transitioning the sofa to a lie flat day bed, height 80 cm, width 200 cm, diameter 80 cm, lie flat depth 100 cm
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A Briar Gardner Pottery jug, Sponge and trickle glazed in blue and earth tones. Incised signature and dated 1/1/37 to base, height 13.5 cm, diameter 12.5 cm
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An Airest coffee table, C. 1960s, in mahogany, caned shelf on slim tapered legs, height 42 cm, length 122 cm, diameter 40 cm
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A Morgan rocking chair, solid mahogany with a vibrant grain is contrasted with freshly redone soft blue upholstery. Slight upwards taper to the shaped armrests, height 85 cm, width 60 cm, diameter 70 cm
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A pair of Don armchairs, Don office style armchairs. Raised on slim tapering legs and with elegant armrests. Reupholstered in a charcoal grey, height 80 cm, width 56 cm, diameter 55 cm
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A Don Narvick armchair, with ski-jump arms and tapering cylinder legs. Freshly upholstered in a stone fabric over memory foam cushions, height 90 cm, width 60 cm, diameter 80 cm
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A pair of Whites photographic prints, Lake Wakatipu & Kaikoura coast, hand-coloured, from the collection of New Zealand scenes in the library of Whites Aviation limited, 'New Zealand pictures of outstanding beauty and in glorious colours'. Entitled lower left and signed lower right. 36.5 x 67 cm (each)
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Six signed photographs of Akaroa by Whites Aviation C. 1954, signed lower right, numbered lower left. Approx. 16.5 x 24 cm
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A selection of four early Crown Lynn Fractional trickle glaze vases, one trumpet vase with horizontal ribbing in a mottled brown and white trickle glaze. A brown and purple trickle glazed baluster vase, with horizontal ribbing to body. A Sky blue amd green squat vase, with palm leaf motif moulded in relief to body. The smallest a squat vase with flaring neck, horizontal stepping to body in a green glaze, height 20 cm, height 14.5 cm, height 10 cm, height 10 cm
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A Whites Aviation photograph, Milford sound, hand-coloured photograph. 29 x 37 cm
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A rare J.A Dupree folk art table, a New Zealand made rustic style folk art table, with the octagonal top resting on a base of intertwining branches terminating in four pointed feet. Manufacturers mark stamped to the underside of top, height 73 cm, diameter 80 cm
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A Royal Doulton 'Kia Ora' jardiniere, embellished in relief with hei tiki, masks, spiral motifs, and oval 'Kia Ora' stamps against a mottled blue band. Vibrant darker blue to the lower section, height 17 cm, diameter 23 cm
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Janet Frame's writing desk, Janet frame moved to Avondale, Auckland, in November 1995. In Michael King's biography of Janet frame (Wrestling with the angel) he notes, on page 513, that her home in Avondale had her living room 'taken up almost entirely with a full-sized pool table around which frame and her guests had to edge their way to chairs (she soon swapped it for a large desk).' that desk is the subject of this provenance statement., Janet did not want to keep her full size slate billiard table,…
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A vintage Qantas New Zealand tiki poster, C. 1970s, 'Printed in Australia, P45'. 99.5 x 64 cm
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An Ian Firth mountain form vase, with sculpted decoration and in a pale yellow, brown and ivory variable glaze, height 40 cm, width 50 cm, diameter 20 cm
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A Titian studio model waka trough vase, satin white glaze. Shape s.104 and maker's stamp to base, length 30 cm
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A pair of Olive Jones green glaze vases, both with incised signature to base. One with a squat body and elongated neck height 10 cm, diameter 10 cm, the other a squat vase with flaring neck, some slight glaze loss, height 9 cm, diameter 12 cm
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A pair of Richard Parker signals, depth 11 cm
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A Briar Gardner vase with everted rim, Variable blue and lavender glazing, with some yellow. Incised signature to base, height 9 cm, diameter 13.5 cm
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An Olive Jones squat vase, blue glaze with green glaze effects to both interior and exterior. Incised makers mark to base, height 10 cm, diameter 15 cm
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An Onehunga Woollen Mills travel rug, in a yellow and green tartan pattern. With original smaller tiki label attached. A/F, 160 x 130 cm
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An Olive Jones small stoneware dish, circular shape with koruru decoration. Green glaze, signed to base, diameter 9.5 cm
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A tall cylindrical Olive Jones vase, olive green glaze, with textural mottling to the body of the vase. Incised signature to base, height 20.5 cm, diameter 11.5 cm
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A Roselyn Dunedin textiles Manatunga woollen travel rug, with a tukutuku panel design in green, blue and ivory. With original label attached. 180 x 135 cm
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A Roselyn Dunedin textiles woollen Manatunga travel rug, with shades of teal, olive and blue in geometric formations. Original label attached. 200 x 140 cm
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An Onehunga Woollen Mills travel blanket, in shades of lavender, with white and green pinstriping. Original larger tiki label attached. 200 x 140 cm
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An Onehunga Woollen Mills travel blanket, with wine and green shaded stripes over a vibrant orange ground. Original smaller tiki label attached. A/F, 170 x 135 cm
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Burton Bros, Hinemihi Meeting house, Te Wairoa, 1885, albumen silver print, inscribed 3846 Runanga house (Hinemihi.) Wairoa, Burton Bros. Dunedin on negative lower left. 14.5 x 20 cm
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A superfine Kahurangi pounamu hei tiki, meticulously carved with head tilted to the left, wide open paua inlaid eyes, flared nostrils, heart-shaped mouth with tongue out and hands clasped to thighs. Suspension hole with lanyard above the left eye. Deep dark-green colour. Hei tiki were and still are one of the most appreciated and emblematic traditional adornments in Aotearoa, considered as a taonga (treasure). Carving pounamu into hei tiki demands a high-level of skill and requires dexterity and patience…
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A 19th century pounamu hei tiki, with head tilted to the right, wide open red eyes, flared nostrils, heart-shaped mouth with tongue out and hands clasped to thighs. Suspension hole above the right eye. Hei tiki were and still are one of the most appreciated and emblematic traditional adornments in Aotearoa, considered as a taonga (treasure). Carving pounamu into hei tiki demands a high-level of skill and requires dexterity and patience due to its hardness. Traditionally worn around the neck by high-rank…
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A large argillite toki, Maori adze blade, of tapered trapezoidal form, blade slightly curved, non-polished, surface with evidence of flake chipping. This adze made of D'Urville Island argillite would have been a product of high value exported over long distances in pre-European times. Provenance: From the collection of Keith St Cartmail. National registration number: Y509, length 24.5 cm, width 8 cm, diameter 4.5 cm
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An exquisite 20th century pounamu waka huia, while Maori high-ranking people used treasure boxes to store their prestigious adornments, the waha huia themselves have always been exquisite works of Art and personal objects that were highly valued and handed down from one generation to another. This contemporary treasure box is delicately carved from translucent mottled pounamu into a canoe shape. The tiki, in a squatting position with their extended necks on each side of the box supporting it high with…
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