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The Spring Auction Series, Part II — Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers

Auction House:Gibson's Auctioneers & ValuersNumber of lots recorded:686
Sale Title:The Spring Auction Series, Part IILots with images:686
Auction Location:MelbournePrices available:420
Date:25-Nov-2024
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Hugh Wallace, Bali 2004, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right: H Wallace 04, 49 x 74.5 cm. Provenance: The collection of Hugh & Jackie Wallace, Melbourne
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Artist unknown, landscape, pastel on paper, signed indistinctly lower right: Casper, 24.5 x 49 cm
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Artist unknown, harvest time, pastel on paper, signed indistinctly lower right: Casper, 29.5 x 59 cm
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Artist unknown, river Inlet, pastel on paper, signed lower right: Casper, 39.5 x 78 cm
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Edmund M Wimperis (English, 1835-1900), looking Across Bingham Common, watercolour, signed lower left: E. M. Wimperis, 27 x 36.5 cm
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John Varley II (English, 1850-1933), classical landscape with ruins and figure, watercolour, 26.5 x 41 cm
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European school (late 19th century), classical still life, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 26.5 cm
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Mughal school, four miniatures, each depicting figural narratives, in gouache on book pages, accompanied by margin text and Persian script to the reverse, the pages 29.5 x 16.5 cm (variable). Provenance: The George Brugler & Jasmine Cowen collection, Melbourne
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Neville William Cayley (1886-1950), the Helmeted honey Eater, watercolour, signed with initials and titled lower centre: Nwc / the Helmeted honey Eater / (Meliphaqa cassidix), 25 x 18.5 cm. Provenance: The George Brugler & Jasmine Cowen collection, Melbourne
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European school, the Lover's Walk, watercolour, 30 x 24 cm
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(attributed) Benjamin Barker Jnr, classical landscape, watercolour, 37 x 30 cm
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Charles Thomas Bale (English, circa 1849-1925), the shades of evening, the Repose circa 1870, oil on canvas, initialled lower left: Ctb, label verso with inscription, 22 x 32 cm
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Italian school, Street scene, oil on canvas on board, signed lower right: W Sonia, 75 x 49 cm
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Artist unknown, Japanese calligraphy, ink on paper, with artist stamp lower right, 31 x 32 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Victoria
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Utamaro Kitagawa, beauty looking in the mirror, colour woodblock, inscribed lower right, 38 x 25.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Victoria
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Utamaro Kitagawa, True Feelings Compared, colour woodblock, inscribed upper left, 38 x 25.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Victoria
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Shaotang Li (born 1948), still life, peaches in a basket, watercolour on paper, inscribed upper right and with artist stamp, 32.5 x 43 cm
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After Peter Lely, Amelia, Countess of Ossory and Henrietta Boyle, Countess of Rochester, two mezzotint engravings, each with printed text on margin, engraved by Thomas Walton, published Jan 1 1779, London; together with the engraving, La Gondole Italienne, after J Vernet, engraved by P.J. Duret, circa 1729, 41 x 33 cm (image size, each), 34 x 50 cm (image size, La Gondole Italienne)
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English school, classical landscape with horses and hay cart, oil on board, 21.5 x 29 cm
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Robert Caspers, classical still life, oil on canvas, signed lower left: R Caspers, 39.5 x 29.5 cm
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J a Bond (New Zealand), river scene with figures in a canoe, New Zealand, oil on board, signed lower left: J Bond, 45 x 61 cm
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Horace Rouse, the mill Stream 1879, oil on canvas, signed, dated and titled verso: the mill Stream / by Horace Rouse / 1879, 24.5 x 59.5 cm
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European school, girl with parrot, oil on panel, 21.5 x 16.5 cm
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After a. V. Auden, Gianvani Battisti and N. Dorigny, Raccolta Di Statve Antiche e Moderne (classical sculptural studies), a suite of five engravings, all with printed text on margin, 35 x 21 cm (each). Provenance: Private Collection, Melbourne
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Maria Cirello, Pompei, gouache and watercolour, signed and titled lower right and centre: Maria Cirello / Pompei - Il Trionfo de Venere, 12.5 cm diameter
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School of David Armfield, Terriers in a Hayfield, oil on canvas, 34.5 x 45 cm
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Italian school, figure resting in a classical landscape, oil on canvas, 75 x 62.5 cm
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In the style of Giovanni Romanelli, the Cumaean Sybil, oil on canvas, 26 x 20.5 cm
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English school, Venice, oil on canvas, 26.5 x 36.5 cm
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A Yixing bamboo motif tea set, 20th century, comprising two simulated bamboo teapots and six cups, inscriptions and marks to the bases, the largest teapot 19 cm
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A group of six small yixing teapots, marks to the bases, the largest 8.5 cm high
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A group of seven small Yixing teapots, impressed marks to the bases, the largest 7 cm high
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A group of nine small Yixing teapots, marks to the base, the tallest 8 cm high
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A group of four large Yixing teapots, marks to the bases, the largest 20 cm high
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Two blanc de chine wares, comprising a waterlily comport bowl, leaves and water fowl to the base; and a lotus leaf vase with lotus pods and a crab, 17 cm high, 21 cm diameter (irregular)
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A jade vase and cover, 20th century, carved in archaic style with taotie and stiff leaves and set with four dragon loop handles two with pendant loose rings, the stone in mottled tones of green, 22 cm high
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Two Sri Lankan wood masks, each carved and decorated in bright colours, the largest 33.5 cm high. Provenance: The collection of Hugh & Jackie Wallace, Melbourne
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Three bronze ornaments, including a Chinese archaic style exotic bird and two deities, 33 cm high. Provenance: The collection of Hugh & Jackie Wallace, Melbourne
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A hardwood scroll end low table, 20th century, the openwork apron carved with fruiting grape vine and supported on four inswept legs, 32 cm high, 89 cm long, 43 cm deep
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Two rose quartz figural carvings, one of a maiden standing holding a flowering peony spray, fitted wood stand; the other of a standing figure of guanyin, 21 cm and 14.5 cm high
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A pair of hongmu side tables, 20th century, each with a rectangular top over shaped aprons, 87 cm high, 107 cm long, 65.5 cm deep
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A boxed set of inscribed ink cakes, the longest 10 cm long
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An iron-red and grisaille decorated dish, Guangxu mark, painted with bats and auspicious characters, 17 cm diameter
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A richly carved hardwood stand, of square section, the corner legs supporting a shelf and joined by openwork aprons, 81 cm high, 46.5 cm wide, 46.5 cm deep
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Two small hardwood display stands, one rectangular with stepped shelves; the other square with corner legs joined by openwork dragon scrolls, 25 cm high, 28 cm wide
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A Vietnamese mother of pearl inlaid hardwood tray, supported above the base with corner legs joined by plain stepped stretchers, 11 cm high, 33 cm long, 20 cm deep
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A carved hardwood and marble stand, 75 cm high, 38 cm diameter
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Chinese school, three works on paper, framed, hanging basket, ink and colour, inscribed and with two seals, standing horse, ink and colour, with one seal, flower, collage on paper, 47 x 33 cm, 34 x 45 cm, 28 x 27 cm
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Y an ivory inlaid lacquer cabinet, the two doors each with a black ground panel applied with ivory beauties and seals reserved on the floral decorated red ground, 130.5 cm high, 84 cm wide, 42.5 cm deep
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A Burmese black lacquer food offering box, comprised of seven graduating compartments with red interiors, 38.5 cm diameter
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A sang de boeuf vase lamp conversion, the glaze thinning to buff around the narrow mouth, BADA sticker, 75 cm high to the top of the shade
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A bronze Pala style figure of Buddha, seated in bhumisparsha mudra on a double lotus throne, wearing a dhoti, jewellery and a high crown, silver inlaid detailing, 12.5 cm high. Provenance: Kari Khedup, Toronto, Canada, 22 September 2015, property from a private collection
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A gilt lacquered bronze figure of Buddha, Thai, 20th century, seated in bhumisparsha mudra on a cushioned triangular base with scroll bracket feet, 39 cm high. Provenance: John Nicholson Auctions, Surrey, England, 21 February 2018, lot 123, property from a private collection
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A group of six Annamese blue and white jarlets, 15th/16th century, each of squat form with narrow mouth, decorated with flower and foliate motifs, the largest 11 cm diameter. Provenance: five with Sotheby's labels
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A group of six brown glazed stonewares, Khmer, 12th/13th century, comprising three jars; two jarlets; and a small kendi, the largest 17 cm high. Provenance: three with Sotheby's labels
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A bronze figure of Avalokitesvara Sadaksari, Tibet, 20th century, the multi-armed deity seated in padmasana on a double lotus base, the principal hands in anjali mudra and the attendant arms raised in vitarka mudra, 21 cm high
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Utamaro Kitagawa, geisha Powdering her neck, colour woodblock, inscribed upper left, 28.5 x 18.5 cm. Provenance: The George Brugler & Jasmine Cowen collection, Melbourne
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Japanese school, the hanging basket, colour woodblock, inscribed centre left, 37 x 7 cm. Provenance: The George Brugler & Jasmine Cowen collection, Melbourne
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Japanese school, geisha, colour wood block, inscribed upper right, 49 x 41.5 cm. Provenance: The George Brugler & Jasmine Cowen collection, Melbourne
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A pair of clay water carriers on stands, Indian, the vessels 24.5 cm high excluding stand
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A Chinese ancestor portrait, of seven family members, framed, 195.5 x 125 cm overall
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Oriental school, baskets of flowers, ink and colour on paper, with two seals, 197 x 132 cm overall
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A pair of ancestor portraits and a large figural painting, framed, the ancestor portraits 128.5 x 73 cm and 129.5 x 70 cm, the figural painting 182 x 200 cm
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Two red lacquered food baskets, the largest 29 cm high
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A bronze figure of Ganesha riding a rat, late 20th century, the corpulent figure seated in 'Royal ease' atop a rat or shrew, housed in a pierced circular canopy with pendent ornaments and surrounded by numerous rodents, 36 cm high
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A group of five blanc de Chine figures of guanyin, 20th century, the tallest 50.5 cm high
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Two red lacquered chests on stand, each 31 cm high, 79 cm wide, 52 cm deep
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Y a Japanese inlaid lacquer wall plaque, 19th/20th century, decorated in gold and coloured lacquer relief with figures in a lakeside setting, the details inlaid in mother of pearl and ivory within the shaped mons border, 74 cm wide
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A famille rose porcelain mounted wood screen, 93 cm high overall
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A pair of large white glazed bowls, 20th century, each 48 cm diameter
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A miniature lantern form hardwood display cabinet, the glazed hexagonal sides below a simulated tiled roof surmounted by dragons, on a galleried base, 40 cm high
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A celadon jade archaistic dragon pendant, 17th century, the coiled body with finely incised detailing, 5.5 cm, Proveanance, dragon culture, Hong Kong, 21 October 2002
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A gilt decorated black lacquered low cabinet, 20th century, the central single door cupboard below two drawers with a two door cupboard to either side, decorated with butterlies and floral sprays, 56.5 cm high, 196 cm long, 44 cm deep
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A carved folk Art tree-trunk vase, Australian, early 20th century, 29 cm high, 20 cm diameter
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A collection of volumes on Art, architecture and culture
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A Mikimoto cultured pearl necklace, the graduated pearls measuring 2.5 - 7.5 mm individually knotted to a silver clasp stamped Mikimoto, total length 520 mm, boxed.
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A strand of cultured pearls with a gold and ruby clasp, comprising thirty nine uniform cultured pearls measuring 9 mm of cream and white hues, individually knotted to an 18ct white gold floral clasp set with a round ruby of 2 mm, total length 415 mm.
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A Victorian diamond half hoop ring, set with five single cut diamonds, 18ct yellow gold, total weight 2gms.
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Y a carved ivory chrysanthemum brooch, 45 mm diameter.
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A silver gilt mounted coral cross and necklace, polished coral overlaid with silver gilt detail suspended from a coral necklace comprising barrel and spherical beads, total length 475 mm.
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Two gold and coral bangles, one of oval hinged form overlaid with 22ct gold together with a solid circular ivory bangle set with coral and wirework.
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A single antique diamond cluster earring, the centre old European cut diamond weighing 0.18cts surrounded by eight further diamonds totalling 0.70cts, claw set in platinum and 9ct white gold, screw fitting, 1.83gms.
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A gold initial bracelet, the gem set initial "D" set on an open work frame below a faceted rock crystal panel, suspended from a trace chain, crafted in 14ct gold, total weight 4.45gms, total length 190 mm.
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A sapphire and diamond cluster ring, the cushion cut sapphire weighing 3.35cts, four claw set above a halo of round brilliant cut diamonds totalling 0.12cts, 18ct white gold, 4.65gms.
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An amethyst and diamond cluster ring, the cushion cut amethyst weighing 4.61cts, surrounded by a halo of single cut diamonds and further detail to the shoulders totalling 0.32cts, 14ct rose gold, 5.60gms.
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Rado Diastar wrist watch, quartz, circular black ceramic dial with date at six, black ceramic and rolled gold case and bracelet bands, 32 mm diameter.
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Tag Heuer wrist watch, quartz, grey dial with baton numerals and date at three, stainless steel and rolled gold case and bracelet bands, 35 mm diameter.
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Y a vintage ivory bracelet, oversized bracelet of gate link design, finished with a clip fitting, total length 200 mm.
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A pearl and diamond pendant, the Baroque freshwater pearl of white and silver hues measuring 13 x 9.5 mm suspended from an 9ct white gold and baguette cut diamond panel totalling 0.20cts, suspended from a silver trace chain, total length 390 mm.
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A solitaire diamond ring, the round brilliant cut diamond weighing 0.30cts having a baguette and single cut diamond set to each shoulder, 18ct white gold and platinum, 1.90gms.
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A pair of loose aquamarines, the match pair of oval cut aquamarines totalling 6.03cts.
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A pair of loose aquamarines, the matched pair of of emerald cut aquamarines totalling 8.90cts.
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A pair of ruby and diamond earrings, each set with two pear cut rubies totalling 1.80cts and round brilliant cut diamonds, 14ct gold, total weight 6.2gms.
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A ruby ring, the round cut ruby weighing 0.35cts set in 18ct white and yellow gold, total weight 4.9gms.
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A cultured pearl necklace, the graduated pearls of cream hues measuring 3.0-5.3 mm, finished with a silver marcasite clasp, total length 450 mm.
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An antique gold and opal triplet ring by Catanach's, crafted in 9ct gold, 2.98gms.
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A sapphire and gold bow brooch, centred with a blue sapphire of 0.25cts within an 14ct white gold bow brooch with engraved detail, 3.16gms.
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A collection of antique jewellery, comprising three 9ct gold brooches, two set with peridots and one with turquoise, total weight 8.8gms, together with a gold lined brooch and a bangle.
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A Zenith Respirator wrist watch and a Longines wrist watch, automatic, cushion shaped dial with date at four, stainless steel case and leather bands, 32 mm diameter, together with a Longines quartz watch, 22 mm diameter.
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A gold and enamel ring, the full circle band of circular pierced links overlaid with blue enamel, 18ct gold, 5.79gms.
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