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Christmas Fine Arts — Davidson Auctions

Auction House:Davidson AuctionsNumber of lots recorded:276
Sale Title:Christmas Fine ArtsLots with images:276
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:208
Date:7-Dec-2022
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Japanese calligraphy. Sokai - Feel so Good' (possible title), 1997. Seal lower left. Ink on paper. 77 x 55 cm (sheet)
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Japanese school (3), early Kunisada (1786-1865), geisha and blossoms, 34.5 x 23 cm; Hiroshige, 'Sudden Shower over Shin-Ohashi bridge and Atake,' late 19th/early 20th century edition, 30 x 20 cm (sheet); and one other similar vintage depicting three geisha, 29 x 19 cm (image) woodblock (3)
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Indian school (4). Four hunting Vignettes depicting Courtiers hunting tigers and leopards. Gouache (4). 11 x 21 cm (each)
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Chinese porcelain floor vase. Late Qing or Republic period. Baluster form vase in a famille rose pallet. Vignette panels depicting the daily life of officials and nobles. Crack and restoration to vase lip. Height 79 cm
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19th century Chinese Peranakan Straits export 5 lobed bowl. Glazed with turquoise ground and yellow clouds and rim. Fixed to a later wooden stand. Diameter 19 cm
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Chinese Sichuan Pottery horse head. Hollow formed, with buff finish. On wooden display stand height 18 cm
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Nest of 4 Chinese rosewood tables. Carved with faux bamboo legs, pierced aprons with bamboo leaf design. Height 73 cm largest)
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Chinese celadon Cong vase. With fine crackle glaze. Height .20 cm
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Bronze Cambodian figure of Vishnu. Four armed figure holding sacred objects. Verdigris patina. Height 28 cm
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Chinese blue & white Meiping vase. Underglaze blue decoration of 'The three friends of winter. 4 character period mark to base. Height 18 cm
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Korean celadon glaze porcelain vase. Decorated with cranes & flowers. Signed to base. Height 23 cm
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Pair Japanese Meiji period bronze vases, by Hidekuni. Carved & inlaid in gold, silver & copper with a cockerel on a plum branch. Each with carved signatures for Hidekuni who worked in the Nogawa workshop in Tokyo. Height 12.5 cm
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Japanese late Meiji period ivory okimono. Finely carved geisha, holding a folded fan. Brocade carving to kimono, with black and red staining. Signed to base. Height 15 cm
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Japanese late Meiji period ivory okimono. Well carved itinerant basket seller. With ginkgo leaf and 2 character signature to base. Nb: ivory export restrictions. Height 13 cm
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Chinese Canton export ivory hand mirror c.1920s/30s. Carved with deep relief dragons chasing a flaming pearl. Some slight age stains and fine age crack. Length 25 cm
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Group of nine Canton pith paintings. Depicting various figures, daily life in Qing dynasty china. 11 x 7 cm (each)
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Chinese porcelain beaker vase. With famille rose decoration. Height 23.5 cm
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Shimaoka Tatsuzo (Japanese 1919-2007). Stoneware Yunomi (tea bowl). Pale grey and celadon 'Net' glaze. Impressed potter's seal to foot. In signed tomobako. Height 5.5 cm D7 cm
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Books (5), 'The handbook of marks on Chinese Ceramics', Gerald Davison, pub. Han-Shan Tang books, 1994; 'A survey of Chinese Ceramics-Sung Wares,' Liu Liang-Yu, pub. Aries Gemini Publishing, 1991; 'Chinese blue & white Porcelain,' third edition, Duncan Macintosh, pub. Antique Collectors, 1994; 'Allen's introduction to later Chinese Porcelain,' Anthony Allen, pub. Harper Photographics, 1996; & 'Chinese Pottery and Porcelain,' R.L. Hobson, pub. Dover publications, 1976.
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Tibetan style cast copper figure of a Lohan. Depicted seated and wearing a robe decorated with auspicious objects height 16 cm. Together with a Chinese cast bronze incense burner. Pierced cover with lion finial, twin mask ring handles and raised on 3 paw feet. Height 19 cm
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Two Chinese coin inset silver dishes
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Two Chinese silver dishes. Each with inset coin. Dia. 9.5 cm W121g (total)
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18th/19th century Indian bronze votive sculpture of Radha, consort of Krishna. A betel in her right hand. With glass inlaid eyes. Height 13 cm
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Benin style bronze bust. Height 15 cm
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Japanese Showa period army officer's sword. Mumei blade with sanbon-sugi hamon. Leather combat cover and silk tsuka likely replaced. Length 63 cm (blade) Length 95 cm (total)
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Japanese late Meiji period bone Tanto. Both scabbard and hilt well carved with low relief decoration of armoured Samurai. Length 38 cm
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Ottoman Tufek Miquelet musket. Full stock with bone and pewter wire inlay. Length 124 cm
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Ottoman hardwood casket. With domed hinged cover, bone and pewter wire inlaid decoration of double-headed eagle. Height 42 cm W54 cm D29 cm
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Cased set of griffin and Tatlock Pairecision laboratory scales. In wood framed timber case. Together with cased weight set. Height 39 cm, width 39 cm, depth 18 cm
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Fifteen Surakarta court belt buckles. Early to mid 19th century buckles worn at the Sultan's court of Surakarta, Java, Indonesia. Iron with gold and 'Suasa' inlay. Typical entwined snake motif. Four with diamond set eyes, one set with rubies and turquoise. In various conditions, some losses and repairs.
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Indonesian keris with figural hilt. Pamor blade with very unusual bifurcated blade. Length 36.5 cm (total)
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Philippines Gunong knife, from Mindanao Island. With polished bone & gilt filigree hilt. Length 39 cm (in scabbard)
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Good, early 20th century Indonesian keris. Javanese keris with straight, double edged leaf form pamor blade. Length 50 cm
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Javanese Lance head, mounted as a knife. Double edged leaf form blade with distinct pamor. Turned timber hilt with silver mounts. Length 29 cm
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Two Indonesian keris knives. Each with an undulating pamor blade. One with a Sumatran 'Jawa Demam' hilt, the other with a carved 'Dewa' deity hilt. Length 56 cm length ongest, in scabbard)
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20th century Indonesian knives. Includes a Sumatran sewar, rencong, four small keris, rawat knife with horn hilt, and a lawi ayam knife with parrot head hilt.
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Dayak headhunters Mandau sword. With concave/convex blade profile, bone hilt with carved 'Aso' motif. Together with 2 examples of Pisau Raut, by-knives used to dress trophy heads. Also a dayak blowpipe poison dart quiver (Tolor). Length 58 cm (sword in scabbard)
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Boxlock flintlock pistol by hill of London. Spring loaded folding bayonet; turn off barrel. Brass box lock and barrel with engraved trophies. Length 25 cm (bayonet extended)
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Spanish Navaja folding knife. Engraved decoration to blade and hilt. Length 30.5 cm
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Ivory coast 'Mami Wata' Vodou votive figure. Mid 20th century polychrome carved wooden figure. Height 28 cm
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Haitian sequin Voodoo banner (Drapo flag). Depicting the Marasa Guinin (sacred twins). Ex ray Hughes Estate. 83 x 83 cm
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Haitian sequin Voodoo banner (Drapo flag). Sewn by Edgar Jean-Louis depicting sacred voodoo iconography (veve). Ex ray Hughes Estate, 75 x 76 cm
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Regency mahogany tilt-top breakfast table. Rectangular top with ebony band inlay. On turned pedestal with splayed legs ending in brass castors. Height 70 cm, length 145 cm, depth 101 cm
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Pair Colonial cedar side tables. Each with a moulded D-shaped top on a plain pine strung frieze, and four turned tapering legs. First half 19th century. Height 74 cm width 135 cm, depth 60 cm. Provenance: Estate late Trevor Kennedy Am.
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Cedar stool. Rounded rectangular top with central cut out. On square tapered legs. Height 46 cm, width 40 cm, diameter 28 cm
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Pair Victorian Aesthetic movement oak salon chairs. In the manner of E.E. Godwin, c.1880s. Fret and spindle supporting black cotton button back. Height 90 cm and 94 cm
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Modernist style wooden bust of a youth. Mid 20th century vintage. No signature apparent. Height 30 cm
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Artist unknown. Female torso. With monogram. Purchased from Leura fine Woodwork gallery, Leura, NSW, in 2000. Rosewood sculpture. Height 36 cm
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French porcelain mounted ormolu mantel clock. Mid 19th century clock with japy freres movement. The case with foliage and swag decoration, surmounted by a porcelain urn finial. Hand painted porcelain dial and insets. No key, bell, or pendulum. Height 46 cm
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Book, bound volumes of 'L'Illustration' July-December 1899. Hardbound embossed gilt covers.
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World War I trench art trophy. Ivo W. Kerr golf trophy, made from a German 210 mm mortar shell. Engraved inscription ''Ivo W. Kerr golf trophy, Commonwealth Institute of Accountants. This German Howitzer shell case was gathered by the donor on Mont St. Quentin (France) on the 1st September 1918 the day this well-nigh impregnable site was captured by the A.I.F. And is given a perpetual trophy in memory of fellow members of the institution who made the supreme sacrifice in the great war of 1914-1918.' Ivo…
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World War II poster, 'Never been so fit...' one of a series of Australian Commonwealth military Forces second World War recruitment posters issued under the title 'Join the AIF.' this poster subtitled 'Make them proud of you!.. Never been so fit I wouldn't have missed it for worlds!' features a graphic of a woman's hands holding a letter and a photograph of a group of smiling soldiers. The poster extolls the physical benefits of being a soldier, appealing to a sense of pride in military service. The image…
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World War II poster, 'Your country needs You! Join the A.I.F Now!. Australian Commonwealth military Forces (AIF) second World War recruiting poster. A black and white image of Winston Churchill's head and left hand pointing toward the viewer dominates the majority of the poster. The badge of the AIF is positioned lower right in monotone red. The main title and message appear below in red text and reverse white text in a red printed block. This poster is derivative of the pointing finger and appeal of…
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World War II posters (2), 'Blackout outside, Plenty of light inside with Philips Lamps.' second World War poster produced by Phillips Electrical Industries Pty Ltd advertising Phillips lamps. The text only poster uses colour to symbolise the effects of light and dark. On the left side of the poster, set jutting out of the rectangular edge, the title text appears in a palette shaped graphic of opposing dark/light colours. The rest of the text is centred in the other half of the poster in white, yellow and…
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World War II counter top Recruitment displays (3), 'How she'll prize your letters from overseas,' one of a series of Australian Commonwealth military Forces second World War recruitment posters issued under the title 'Join the AIF' this poster is subtitled 'How she'll prize your letters...' and features a woman's hand holding a photograph of her soldier boyfriend on a camel. The letter is one of a bundle of other letters tied with ribbon. The image is in black and white set against a bright yellow…
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Tolkien, J.R.R. (1892-1973), 2 pieces of correspondence Concerning the dating of the 14th century poem, 'Sir Gawain and the green Knight'. A scholarly edition of this work was published by Tolkien and his colleague E.V. Gordon in 1925. The lot consists of a three page typed letter from Mr A.I. Mackay to professor Tolkien with a detailed analysis of the terms used for various pieces of armour and at what date they first came into use. The 2nd letter is the typed, hand signed response from Tolkien expressing…
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Portrait photograph of Sir Henry Parkes (1815-1896). Hand signed by Henry Parkes and dated 1882. Photograph was gifted to Julian Rossi Ashton by Henry Parkes. 14.5 x 10 cm (card) Provenance: by descent to J R Ashton's great grandson (through his second wife).
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Canadian Actress Mary Pickford signed photograph. Black and white photograph, hand signed. (25 x 20 cm
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Eleven early 20th century Japanese postcards. Group posted in envelope addressed to 'Miss Muriel Felstead, Victoria Street, Roseville Sydney, Australia' and dated 1919.
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Book, 'The Sermon on the Mount.' published by John field c.1865. Illuminated by Samuel Stanesby on 20 card leaves, pressed & embossed gilt covers. Inscribed dedications from September 1865, and 25th December 1892.
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Bassett-Lowke O-Gauge live steam Gnr 4-2-2 locomotive & tender. Green with red trim. Old repair. Repainted, and modified. Length 47 cm
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Bassett-Lowke O-Gauge live steam LMS 4-4-0 locomotive & tender. Maroon and black. Repainted, and modified. Length 47 cm
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Bassett-Lowke O-Gauge live steam Gnr 4-6-2 tank locomotive. Repainted blue, and modified. Length 32 cm
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Bing O-Gauge Gwr bogie dining car. Lithographed tinplate with usual marks and scuffs. Length 30 cm
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Carved wooden Chinese 'Door God' (Menshen). Seated figure with polychrome and gilt. Some small losses. Height 14 cm
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After Desiderio da Settignano, (2). Bust of a little boy, bronzed/patinated plaster height 26 cm; and a little boy, painted plaster with losses height 21 cm. Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Richard Brooks, (b.1951), studio Pottery, Pottery charger. Shallow charger raised on a circular foot. Glazed flannel flower decoration. Signed 'R.B. 91' to base and impressed studio potter's mark. Diameter 38 cm
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Les Blakebrough. Heavily potted stoneware fruit bowl. Potter's mark & mark for Sturt Pottery (1962-1973) to base rim. Height 6.5 cm, diameter 28 cm
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Chester Nealie (New Zealand b.1942). Stoneware amphora vase. Spherical body with two small applied loop handles. Chester Nealie paper label to base. Height 17.5 cm
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Peter Rushforth, (1920-2015). Cylindrical stoneware vase. Indented, paddle beaten sides. Impressed potter's seal to foot. Height 19 cm
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20th century Japanese Mashiko stoneware charger. Tenmoku glaze, with central brushed resist stems & flowers. (Dia 31 cm
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John Campbell (1857-1928) Pottery vase. Blue drip glaze, incised 'A308 John Campbell Tasmania'. Height 10 cm
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Harold Randolph Hughan. Celadon glaze stoneware teapot, 1945-1987. Horizontal ribbing, with stylised copper decoration. Signed to base, & stamped for 'Hughan Glen Iris. Very small chip to spout. Height 15 cm. Provenance: Ken Don collection (Kenneth Lawrence & Don Evans); Skepsi gallery, Melbourne, 2007 (receipt available).
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Harold Randolph Hughan. Stoneware teapot with cane handle. Celadon glaze with hint of flambe. Brushed iron signature to base. Height 27 cm (with handle) height 19 cm (to top of lid)
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Milton Moon, (1926-2019). Stoneware jug. With applied strap handle, incised horizontal ribs, matte brown glaze and incised signature to base. Height 25.5 cm
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Peter Rushforth, (1920-2015). Stoneware blossom vase. Ribbed, paddle beaten body with buff and celadon glaze. Impressed potter's seal to foot rim. Height 18 cm
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Barbara Swarbrick. Double handled square bowl, 1989. The central reserve painted with stylised faces, with shell & starfish decoration to the borders. Stamp, & incised signature & date to base. 30 x 20 x 2 cm
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Castrol Oil enamel sign. Single sided. In good condition. Diameter 90 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Nrma enamel sign. Double sided sign with losses to enamel. (61 x 49 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Gargoyle Mobiloil enamel sign. Single sided. (26 x 46 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Shell oil enamel sign. Single sided. Some corrosion losses. (23 x 63 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Pennant kerosene enamel sign. Double sided sign. (30 x 56 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Three Austin advertising signs. Austin Sales & Service', and 'Austin Genuine Parts' (2). 31 x 76 cm (each) Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Three Austin advertising signs. Austin Sales & Service', and 'Austin Genuine Parts' (2). 31 x 76 cm (each) Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Cedar framed fusee railway clock, by H. Williamson. Circular white dial with Roman numerals, marked 'Fairfax & Roberts Ltd, Sydney'. Diameter 40 cm Provenance: Deceased estate, Sydney.
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Noel Hart (b.1955) art glass vase. Golden-Shouldered Parrot', with pate de verre finish. Signed, titled and dated 2004 to base. Height 26 cm
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Ola Hoglund (b.1956) studio art glass vase. Large sommerso vase from New Zealand 'Hoglund art glass'. Clear glass with red, blue and yellow. Decal studio label to base. Height 37 cm
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Timo Sarpaneva (1926-2006) Iittala 'Minora' glass vase. Textured ice finish. Polished rim and base, engraved initials 'T.S' to base. Height 17 cm
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Dino Martens (1894-190) art glass fish for Aureliano Toso. Yellow, red and clear sommerso glass. Bears factory paper label 'Murano a. Bon' for Vetreria Artigiana Aldo bon factory. Length 35.5 cm
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Czech Harrachov Glassworks vase. Clear vase 'Harrtil' lattice pattern. Height 12 cm
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Paolo Venini (1895-1959) vintage Murano ruby glass plate. Mid century ruby red plate with etched studio mark to base, 'Venini, Murano Italia'. Diameter 17.5 cm
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Jean Claude Navarro (French b.1943). art glass vase. Smoked glass with wide, flattened base and tall narrow neck. Engraved signature to base. Height 22.5 cm
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Angelo Donghia (1935-1985) clear Hour-Glass vase. Etched signature to rim. Height 49.5 cm
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Marco & Mattia Salvadore studio art glass vase. Spirale' collection ovoid vase with battuto finish, engraved signature to base. Height 33 cm
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Freeform Murano art glass vase. Light grey bulbous vase with clear and blue swirl foot and narrow neck. Minor scratch to shoulder. Height 37 cm
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Murano studio art glass swan bowl. Hand blown and applied clear, grey and amethyst glass. Unsigned, possibly Antonio Da Ros. Length 30 cm
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Edvin Ohrstrom (1906-1994). Two Orrefors 'Waterfall' crystal vases. Includes one tall, and one spherical form. Both engraved 'Orrefors' to base. Height 19 cm (tallest)
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Seguso Viro art glass vase. Blue and pale blue vase. With original foil label and engraved signature to base 'Seguso Viro Murano'. Height 25 cm
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Orrefors Edvard Hald (1883-1980) Deco crystal vase. Clear with black foot. Engraved to base 'Orrefors Ha 167/2'. Height 18.5 cm
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Set of 3 Murano 'Fishtail' vases. Ruby red, yellow and clear sommerso design. Each bearing 'Formia' decal labels and engraved signature to base. Height 30 cm (tallest)
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