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Auction House:
Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
Number of lots recorded:21
Lots with images:21
Prices available:21
Category:
Bookends
LotDescriptionPriceImage
*** A pair of Rhoda Wager Australian silver, Arts and Crafts style bookends, circa 1920, Art Nouveau design of curvaceous gum leaves and clusters of gum nuts, worked in relief on a veined beaten silver background 13 cm high, 15 cm wide, 7.5 cm deep ***
*** Ola Cohn (1892-1964), A pair of painted ceramic book ends, featuring a pair of seated literary figures on integral plinth bases, 27 cm high, 13 x 15 cm base. Other Notes: Made by Ola Cohn for the vendor's grandfather ***
*** A pokerwork wood book slide, circa 1920, the face of each upright has a painted blue wren perched on flowering wattle, the inside of the slide has been marbled in tones of charcoal and sky blue, 14.5 cm high, 33 cm wide, extending to 58 cm ***
*** A pair of elephant bookends potter unknown, circa 1920, each modelled as a elephants standing side by side but each in the opposite direction, aqua, blue gloss glaze, 11.5 cm high, 14 cm wide, 8 cm deep ***
*** A pair of pokerwork decorated Huon pine bookends, circa 1920, each incised and painted with gum nuts and gum leaves, painted with muted autumn colours of red, yellow, green and chocolate original patina, 17 cm high, 11 cm wide ***
*** A pair of K.McConnell bookends, circa 1940, each applied with Australian flowers, including Christmas bells, wax flowers, Sturt Desert Pea and heath, light and royal blue glaze, one incised 'K McConnell' to base, 11 cm high, 13 cm wide, 5.5 cm deep ***
*** A pair of merino sheep bookends potter unknown, circa 1930, modelled as a head of a merino sheep, with curled horns to either side, crimson high gloss glaze, 14.5 cm high, 11.3 cm wide, 10.5 cm deep ***
*** A pair of women's work Australian seashell bookends, made from cedar and applied with waxed Australian seashells, 16 cm high, 12 cm wide, 11 cm deep ***
*** A pair of pokerwork, koala decorated Huon pine bookends, circa 1920, of acorn form, each inside and painted with a koala climbing a leafy gum tree, 17 cm high, 11 cm wide, 11 cm deep ***
*** A pair of Gustav Pillig porcelain bookends, circa 1945 (1877-1956), each modelled of a female bust wearing a scarf, with a deep chocolate glaze, 13 cm high, 8.5 cm wide, 10 cm deep ***
*** A pair of Australian kingfisher book ends, each on hardwood plinths, 18.5 cm high, 11.5 cm wide ***
*** A pair of spelter rabbit form bookends, French circa 1930 signed H.Moreau, with Siena marble ***
*** A pair of bronze kangaroo bookends, 14 cm high ***
*** A pair of pokerwork bookends, circa 1930, the face of each etched and hand painted with flannel flowers and Christmas Bells, within patterned border, with retractable metal foot, 17.8 cm high, 17.6 cm wide, 4.5 cm deep ***
*** A pair of onyx and marble spelter elephant book-ends, 14 cm high ***
*** A pair of Australian pottery koala bookends modelled as two koala's clinging to a bough, green, grey and yellow glaze 12.5 cm high ***
*** A pair of carved ebony elephant bookends 17 cm high, 14 cm wide, 4 cm deep ***
*** A pair of marble horse head bookends, 23 cm high ***
*** A pair of poker wood bookends, circa 1930, each etched and hand painted with gum nuts and gum leaves and patterned edges, red, yellow, green, ochre and brown, 14 cm high, 11 cm wide, 9.5 cm deep ***
*** A pair of patinated metal Australian parrot figured bookends, each modelled as a partially opened book surmounted by a parrot, 17 cm high ***
*** A pair of cast iron dog form bookends, 16 cm high ***