Full details of each lot are displayed, except the lot number, estimate and price. You must be a subscriber to view lot numbers, estimates and prices.

Click here to view registration and subscription levels

The Entire Stock in Trade of John Dunn Antiques, Melbourne — Artvisory

Auction House:ArtvisoryNumber of lots recorded:337
Sale Title:The Entire Stock in Trade of John Dunn Antiques, MelbourneLots with images:336
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:286
Date:28-Aug-2022
***
A beautiful Regence period gilt gesso mirror, French circa 1730, 110 cm high 60 cm wide
***
***
***
A Louis XVI period giltwood mirror, French circa 1780, 102 cm high 64 cm wide
***
***
***
An impressive Rococco giltwood marble top console table, Italian 18th century, 137 cm wide, 97 cm high, 69 cm deep
***
***
***
A set of four painted and gilt-gesso candlesticks, Italian circa 1820, 49 cm high
***
***
***
A large carved oak figure of a cherub, English circa 1690 on fabric covered box base, 57 cm high, 66 cm high with base
***
***
***
A large and very impressive walnut and oak centre table, Spanish circa 1680, 222 cm wide, 68 cm deep 79 cm high
***
***
***
A fine Tuscan walnut octagonal table, Italian circa 1680, 108 cm wide, 78 cm high
***
***
***
A painted iron wall candle bracket, French, early 17th century, 50 cm wide 39 cm high
***
***
***
A very rare carved and incise decorated Cyprus wood bureau shaped table box, Italian circa 1700 with fitted interior and secret drawers, 22 cm high 33 cm wide, 21 cm deep
***
***
***
A large and impressive pair of Japanese stoneware wakashishi (lions) inscribed, 19th century, 45 cm high
***
***
***
A small Empire period grained walnut marble-top console table, French circa 1830, 83 cm high, 77 cm wide, 43.5 cm deep
***
***
***
A rare miniature walnut trestle table, Spanish circa 1680, 30 cm high, 54 cm long, 39 cm wide
***
***
***
A turned walnut and tapestry covered stool, Italian circa 1680, 51 cm high 43 cm wide, 32 cm deep
***
***
***
A small walnut stretcher table, Spanish 17th century, 79 cm high, 118 cm long, 73.5 cm deep
***
***
***
A Chinese Ming style cast iron censer in the form of a Buddhistic lion, Qing dynasty 18th century, 18 cm high
***
***
***
A stunning Louis XV period carved walnut bombe commode, French mid 18th century, 90 cm high, 60 cm deep, 120 cm wide
***
***
***
A very decorative Japanese bronze Mizubachi (water container) early Meiji period (1868-1912), 52 cm high 44 cm wide
***
***
***
A set of six Japanese graduated terracotta kitchen gods (Hotei San) circa 1900, 22 cm-50 cm high
***
***
***
A red lacquered leather and wood drum- Kotsuzumi Japanese 20th century, 25 cm high20 cm diameter
***
***
***
A pair of very impressive carved and turned walnut armchairs, Italian 17th century, 136 cm high 82 cm wide 66 cm deep
***
***
***
A very decorative painted metal pub sign of Gulliver in Lilliput, English 19th century, 94c high, 68 cm wide
***
***
***
A rare metal- bound velvet covered domed top casket, Spanish circa 1660, 20 cm high 25 cm wide 14 cm deep
***
***
***
An oak joint stool, English circa 1660, 56 cm high, 46 cm long, 27 cm wide
***
***
***
An impressive polychrome painted gesso and carved wood figure of St Elizabeth, Spanish early 18th century, 121 cm high
***
***
***
A very rare and beautiful painted gesso and carved limewood figure of the Madonna and Child, Flemish circa 1600, 117 cm high 45 cm wide
***
***
***
Italian school 17th century St Catherine at prayer, oil on canvas, 130 cm x 100 cm
***
***
***
Dutch school, 17th century portrait of a young boy with a birds nest oil on canvas, 76 cm x 62 cm
***
***
***
An oak joint stool, English circa 1660 incised with a makers mark of a cross to one apron, 54 cm high, 46 cm wide30 cm deep
***
***
***
A pair of rare walnut console tables, Italian circa 1760, 107 cm wide, 50 cm deep, 73 cm high
***
***
***
A small fruitwood childs chair, French mid 19th century, with rush seat, 70 cm high 36 cm wide
***
***
***
A gilt-bronze sculpture of a squirrel holding a nut, French circa 1880, 8 cm high 9 cm wide
***
***
***
A large Tabriz carpet, north West Persian circa 1920, 480 cm x 345 cm
***
***
***
A turned walnut octagonal stool, Italian 18th century, 50 cm high 44 cm wide 32 cm deep
***
***
***
A large weathered Carrara marble mortar, French 17th century, 20c high 41 cm wide
***
***
***
A Staffordshire pottery flat back figure of a lamb lying next to a lion, English 19th century, after the story of Isaac van Amburgh an American lion tamer who in his performane made a lion lie down with a sheep, 10 cm high
***
***
***
A small Kashan turquoise glazed vessel, Iraq circa 13th century, 13 cm high
***
***
***
A pair of large and very well carved walnut and parcel-gilt armchairs, Italian 19th century with gilt-gesso foliate carved capitals, 131 cm high 66 cm wide, 62 cm deep
***
***
***
Mahogany serpentine -fronted marble topped commode, German 18th century an impressive walnut serpentine-fronted marble topped commode, French 18th century, 133 cm wide 68 cm deep 84 cm high
***
***
***
An imposing pair of polychrome painted barley-twist columns, Italian 18th century, 199 cm high bases 40 cm square
***
***
***
A beautiful Chinese red-lacquer casket, Qing dynasty, 19th century, 40 cm long 19 cm high, 23 cm deep
***
***
***
A very good painted black and gilt tole ware tea-kettle on stand, English circa 1820, 30 cm high 26 cm diameter
***
***
***
A natural rootwood basket, Japanese circa 1900 or earlier, together with some shells, 55 cm wide 42 cm high
***
***
***
A Japanese black and red lacquer domestic altar table, Meiji period (1868-1911), 12 cm high 55 cm wide
***
***
***
A pair of very decorative and large porcelain figures of cranes, Japanese circa 1900, 41 cm high
***
***
***
A reverse glass painting of St Francois, central European 19th century, 30c cm high 25 cm wide
***
***
***
A very decorative pictorially painted bow front corner cabinet, Netherlands, circa 1720, 89 cm high, 59 cm wide, 36 cm deep
***
***
***
A fabulous octagonal walnut centre table, Bologna region, Italian circa 1640, 78 cm high, 114 cm wide
***
***
***
An embossed metal circular rose water bowl, Dutch circa 1730, 41 cm diameter
***
***
***
A George II mahogany kettle stand, English circa 1750 and later, 55 cm high 28 cm wide
***
***
***
A medieval revival repousse silvered metal shield, French 19th century, approx 58 cm diameter
***
***
***
A large and appealing mountain cedar frog, signed, Japanese, early 20th century, 48 cm long 26 cm high
***
***
***
A silvered copper and wrought iron lavabo, Spanish circa 1780, 80 cm high 35 cm diameter
***
***
***
A fine ormolu mounted small bombe commode, Italian 18th century, 79 cm high 74 cm wide 48 cm deep
***
***
***
A good Tuscan dark walnut upright chest with original bronze handles, Italian circa 1700, with lion mask ring drop handles and figured walnut drawer fronts, 100 cm high 90 cm wide 37 cm deep
***
***
***
A neo-classical dark walnut single-door cabinet, Italian 17th century, 111 cm high, 116 cm wide, 35 cm deep
***
***
***
An exceptional carved walnut Bambocci table top cabinet, Italian circa 1600, with carved standing figures on three sides and original bronze handles, 65 cm high, 70 cm wide 36 cm deep
***
***
***
A superb terracotta lion, French 18th century, 70 cm high, 75 cm long, 38 cm deep
***
***
***
A very impressive walnut buffet, Bologna Italian circa 1680, 177 cm wide, 108 cm high, 64 cm deep
***
***
***
English school early 19th century the Rat-catcher oil on canvas, 34 cm x 42.5 cm
***
***
***
Attributed to Stephen Elmer Ara (1714-1796) still life, Rabbits and pheasant in a landscape, oil on panel, 23 cm x 29 cm
***
***
***
GH British school Rabbits eating lettuce out of their hutch, oil on panel, initialled GH lower right, in frame labelled H East, 29 cm x 39 cm
***
***
***
A fine quality marquetry and mellowed walnut writing table, German in the French manner, circa 1840, 97 cm wide, 74 cm high, 48 cm deep
***
***
***
A fabulous pair of cast iron neo-classical pedestal urns, French 19th century, 140 cm high, 65 cm diameter
***
***
***
A pair of carved giltwood urns, Italian mid 18th century, 23 cm high 18 cm wide
***
***
***
A well carved walnut high back chair in the William and Mary style, English 19th century, 125 cm high, 53 cm wide, 43 cm deep
***
***
***
A carved and silvered gesso lectern, Italian circa 1720, 38 cm high 50 cm wide
***
***
***
A stoneware patinated cast iron lion possibly from a coat of arms, Farnley iron Company Leeds, England mid 19th century, 55c cm high 53 cm wide
***
***
***
A fine carved dark walnut cassone, Italian circa 1640 with central coat of arms, 172 cm long 69 cm high, 54 cm deep
***
***
***
A charming polychrome painted carousel horse, labelled star maker, English circa 1880, 75 cm high 105 cm long
***
***
***
Italian school late 17th century portrait of Saint Giovanni, although the spelling of the name on the book is Giovanni Colombi it is assumed that the painting represents Blessed John (Giovanni) Colombino founder of the Apostolic Seminarians of St Jerome, or Jesuati in Sienna in 1355, 100 cm x 76 cm
***
***
***
An extraordinary carved mother of pearl and olive-wood 3D Last Supper group, Jerusalem, circa 1880, 30 cm high 34 cm wide
***
***
***
A painted dummy board figure of a Dutch girl, English 18th/19th century with carved oak base, 100 cm high 40 cm wide
***
***
***
A rare and finely detailed gilt copper processional cross, Italian 15th century, 57 cm high 35 cm wide
***
***
***
A polychrome painted two-drawer commode, Southern Italian, circa 1790, 119 cm wide, 96 cm high, 56 cm deep
***
***
***
A large and fine polychrome painted and carved wood figure of a lamb, Spanish circa 1700, with green painted box base, 35 cm high, 37.5 cm high including the base 73 cm long
***
***
***
A pair of painted metal foliate shaped wall sconces, Italian 18th century, approx. 76 cm wide and 50 cm high
***
***
***
An unusual gilt and blue ground Satsuma koi dish, Meiji period (1868-1912) Koshida Company mark, 15.5 cm diameter
***
***
***
A famille-rose enamel stem cup, early 20th century, 9 cm high10 cm diameter
***
***
***
A gilt-bronze anamalier figure of a rabbit, French circa 1880, lacquer tray stand, 8 cm high 9.5 cm long
***
***
***
A Japanese stoneware figure of the god Hotai San, circa 1920, 30 cm high
***
***
***
An exceptional giltwood and gesso mirror, French 19th century, 300 cm high 160 cm wide
***
***
***
A Louis XV period walnut armchair, French circa 1700, 114 cm high, 64 cm wide, 68 cm deep
***
***
***
A Louis XV walnut stool, French circa 1770, 46 cm high, 60 cm wide, 39 cm deep
***
***
***
A Sawankhalok celadon glazed stoneware vase, Thai 15th century, with silver rim, 20 cm high
***
***
***
A Jun type pink splashed pale blue glazed bowl, song style, Ex: John Kenny collection Melbourne, 14.5 cm diameter
***
***
***
A fine kingwood and gilt-bronze mounted bureau-plat, French circa 1865, 142 cm wide, 77 cm deep, 77.5 cm high
***
***
***
A Louis XIV period oak throne chair, French circa 1660, with a misericord that allowed the occupant to rest upon it whilst appearing to stand, 167 cm high, 73 cm wide, 69 cm deep
***
***
***
A large wide Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 138 cm high high, 64 cm wide
***
***
***
A large wide Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 142 cm high, 65 cm wide
***
***
***
A tall Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 173 cm high, 30 cm wide
***
***
***
A medium sized Asmat war shield, Papua New Guinea, 20th century, 121 cm high, 50 cm wide
***
***
***
A rare oak and early Gothic linen fold cupboard, French 16th century, 121 cm wide, 54 cm deep, 110 cm high
***
***
***
A set of twelve brass studded green leather and oak turned leg dining chairs, 88 cm high, 47 cm wide, 46 cm deep
***
***
***
A large green painted iron window grille, Italian 17/18th century, 192 cm high, 110 cm wide, 21 cm deep
***
***
***
A pair of oak linen fold panels English 15/16th century, 156 cm high, 37 cm wide
***
***
***
A pair of oak linen fold panels English 15/16th century, 142 cm high, 36 cm wide
***
***
***
A Chinoiserie lacquer sewing box with gilt metal mounts, English circa 1830, 30 cm wide, 22 cm deep 9.5 cm high
***
***
***
A large and impressive carved and polychrome wood Royal Coat of Arms, British 19th century, inscribed Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense (Evil to him who thinks evil) and motto Dieu Et Mon Droit (God and my right) with the rose thistle and Shamrock celebrating the Union of England, Ireland and Scotland, 114 cm high, 148 cm wide 23 cm deep
***
***
***
A rare and fine quality mahogany serpentine commode, Nante region, French 18th century, 125 cm wide, 85 cm high, 63 cm deep
***
***
***
A pair of powerfully and expressively carved wood heads of angels, German circa 1680, on velvet backboards, approx.30 cm high by 30 cm wide
***
***