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Eggs, Mounted Emu and Other Large — Precious Objects - Philips Auctions Australia
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| Philips Auctions Australia | |
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| Number of lots recorded: | 5 |
| Lots with images: | 5 |
| Prices available: | 5 |
Category:
Eggs, Mounted Emu and Other Large
| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | A Victorian carved emu egg and silver plated epergne, 19th century, unmarked, an emu egg carved with Australian fauna raised on a plated trunk with bracken branches, and having a serpentine base with a patterned apron supporting applied emus and kangaroos… | *** |  |
| *** | A Colonial silver mounted emu egg with presentation plaque, circa 1875, provenance offered at small & Whitfield, 19/10/87 as lot 88, the egg mounted on a prick worked stem stand and surmounted by an emu on a raised naturalistic ground, the applied shield… | *** |  |
| *** | An emu egg and silver-plated epergne beneath a glass dome, 19th century, the relief carved emu egg surmounted by an emu figurine and flanked by two frilled conical glass vases held in silvered framework with fern frond embellishments and little kangaroo… | *** |  |
| *** | A fine Victorian Sheffield plate ostrich egg centrepiece, circa 1850-60s Sheffield, with maker's mark for Edwin Howard & Son, a cast arched and floral decorated frame suspending two ostrich eggs relief carved with Australian fauna, upon an elongated… | *** |  |
| *** | A carved emu egg mounted on a silver pedestal, circa 1893. Carved with an image of a koala in a tree at sunrise, the egg supported on the upswept ferns of a palm tree the silvered base set with a kangaroo and emu, signed 'G. Samuel '93' height 18 cm | *** |  |