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Art — Cordy's
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| Number of lots recorded: | 96 |
| Lots with images: | 96 |
| Prices available: | 96 |
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| Lot | Description | Price | Image |
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| *** | Webber's famous representation 'The Death of Captain Cook', original engraving, drawn by John Webber and engraved by F.Bartolozzi (figures) and W.Byrne (landscape). Published London 1 July 1785. Measuring 29.5 cm x 40 cm, including caption and plate… | *** |  |
| *** | Michael Smither, still life with yellow teapot, oil on board, initialled and dated 94, 48 x 730. Estimate $15500 | *** |  |
| *** | Henry Pierce Bone, R.A. (1755-1834, British), 'Portrait of Sir Martin Frobisher', an enamelled copper plaque. Frobisher 1576 undertook the discovery of the North-West Passage. He sailed against the Spanish Armada. (see inscribed details to reverse). Henry… | *** |  |
| *** | Peter McIntyre, 'Otago Coastline', oil on canvas, signed, 137 cm x 102 cm, gilt framed. | *** |  |
| *** | Gordon Walters, 'Painting with Red' oil on canvas, signed, entitled and dated 1985 verso, 30.5 x 24.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Maj-Gen. Horatio Gordon Robley (UK/NZ 1840-1930), The Surrender of the Ngai-te-Rangi at Te Papa Mission Station, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand, July 1864', watercolour, signed H.G.Robley, Durham Lt. Inftry. lower left and inscribed Surrender of Ngaiterangi,… | *** |  |
| *** | Gordon Walters, untitled, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1975 verso, 30.5 x 30.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A c.1900 Maori portrait oil on canvas, the gent with moko and wearing a tag cloak, initialled M.B. 24.5 x 19.5 cm. Wide oak frame. Initialled in red | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Taylor (1933-2016) 'Waitemata Harbour', acrylic on board, signed, signed and dated 2004 verso. 63 cm x 62 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Taylor (1933-2016) 'Northland', acrylic on canvas board, signed. 24.5 cm x 25.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Gordon Walters 'Kura', screenprint, title inscribed, signed and dated 1982, number 126 of an edition of 150.55 cm x 44 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Henry Pierce Bone R.A., an enamelled plaque, an allegorical scene, with inscribed details verso: 'Painted for the Duke of Bedford… after the original picture in the collection… at Woburn Abbey'. Faults top right and left hand corners. In gilt frame with… | *** |  |
| *** | An 18th century painted plaque, 'The Men Returning from the Hunt', in the manner of the French and Italian schools. Original gilt frame. Information verso however further research has proved the artist mentioned specialised in portraiture. | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Aldworth (Darby) Ryan (1864-1923), 'Ohinemutu Village & Lake Rotorua', watercolour, signed and inscribed to J. (James) Cowan and dated 1896. Ryan worked as illustrator for Cowan, the author and historian on his first book 'Taupo and the Volcanoes'… | *** |  |
| *** | Toss Woollaston, seated Maori woman, watercolour on paper, signed.36 x 27 cm, framed under glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Samuel Prout (1783-1852) British, 'Sion', water colour, signed and entitled, c.1824, 39.5 x 27.5 cm gilt framed under glass. Note: Sion is in the upper Rhone Valley, Swiss Alps. . | *** |  |
| *** | Three World War I period Gallipoli watercolours by T.V. Auld, all of long panoramic form showing: one of 'The Terrible Country Towards Suvla', another of that similar area showing various steep gorges with soldiers in uniform, the other of an extensive… | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney Long (1871-1955 Aust.), 'Narabeen', watercolour, signed, entitled on reverse. 34.5 x 47.5 cm, framed under glass | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Nathaniel Worsley R.B.A., 'A Winter's Evening' Lago Maggiore, watercolour, signed. 75 x 50 cm | *** |  |
| *** | E. Mervyn Taylor, 'Huias' wood engraving, limited edition 30, signed, entitled and numbered. 10.5 x 15.5 cm framed under glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Robin White 'Mabel Mitchell's Place. Waiotemarama, Hokianga', screenprint, title inscribed, signed and dated July 1977, number 31 of an edition of 4.5 cm. 68 cm x 45.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Gretchen Albrecht, 'Winter', watercolour on paper, signed, entitled and dated '85.60 x 80 cm, Framed Under Glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas Redmayne (UK/NZ/US working 1860s/70s), New Zealand War, 1845-47, Men of the 96th Foot Storming the Palisades of a Maori Pah', ink and watercolour heightened with white, monogrammed lower right, entitled to the mount. 16 cm x 22 cm. Redmayne arrived… | *** |  |
| *** | A vintage South American religious painting, oil on canvas, Madonna and baby Jesus, in the manner of the old masters. 70 x 50 cm unframed. | *** |  |
| *** | Ian McMillan (Elam school) passengers in an Auckland bus, oil on hard board, 90 cm x 12 cm unsigned, 1940's, unframed and some distress | *** |  |
| *** | Sydney Lough Thompson (1877-1933), 'Autumn Trees Viewed Beyond a Bridge', oil on board, signed. 21 cm x 25.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two 19th century hand-coloured photographic portraits of Napoleon Bonaparte and Empress Josephine of France, albumen prints hand-coloured in oils and laid on linen, stamped verso with Parisian atelier's details, framed in English gilt frames under glass.… | *** |  |
| *** | Mark cross 'Coral Pools #2', (Tuapa, Niue), acrylic on board, initialled, entitled on reverse. 27 cm x 37 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley (1840-1930), two works, 'From a Painted Door' and 'From a Maori rafter', watercolour on paper, both signed and entitled, 24.5 cm x 17.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | John Weeks, 'Canal Venice', oil on board, certificate of authenticity on reverse, signed by Alan Swinton. 29.5 x 39.5 cm, framed | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Decimus Barraud, untitled Maori figures and rock walled path, oil on canvas, initialled and dated '78. 34 x 19 cm, in original frame with some old losses, old type label on reverse | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Decimus Barraud, 'Roto Mahana - New Zealand', Maori figures in a lakeside wooded setting, oil on canvas, initialled and dated '78. 34 x 19 cm, in original plaster gilt frame. Old type label verso | *** |  |
| *** | Edward McLeod (1881-1973), the paddle Steamer Terranova Berthed at Mansion house Jetty, Kawau Island c. 1900, oil on board, unsigned. (McLeod's father was a Captain for the NSSCo), 45 x 60 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Late 19th century colonial New Zealand artist unknown, Rangitoto and North Head from Auckland wharfs, oil on canvas, unsigned, 33.8 x 54 cm original gilded rustic log design frame. | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Stuart Paterson (1902-68), Council Meeting' watercolour, signed and entitled, 35 cm x 25 cm. Provenance: Private Estate Collection | *** |  |
| *** | Keith Wilson after C.F. Goldie, portrait of Te Aho O Te Rangi Wharepu Mahuta, oil on canvas, titled verso. 58.5 x 38.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Artist Unknown, 'Lieut. Col. King, Light Bengal Cavalry', oils on ivory panel, unsigned. 18 cm x 13 cm | *** |  |
| *** | John Kinder (UK/NZ 1819-1903), Te Papa, Tauranga, NZ', watercolour, signed and entitled lower right, inscribed 'Christmas 1857' lower left. 24.5 cm x 33 cm. Kinder produced many sketches, watercolours and photographs of the Te Papa Peninsula area where… | *** |  |
| *** | Major-General Horatio Gordon Robley, two works, both 'From a Maori rafter', both signed & entitled 24.5 cm x 17.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | H.W. Kirkwood. 'Dusky Sound', Mitre Peak and Lion Rock, oil on board, signed, entitled on reverse. 63.5 cm x 46 cm See back cover | *** |  |
| *** | David J. Payne (1880-1959), portrait of a woman with draped shawl, oil on canvas, signed with artist’s initials and dated 1914. 90 cm x 44.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Margaret Olrog Stoddart, Beach Scene Sumner, watercolour, signed, 26.5 x 36.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Artist Unknown, Street scene with horse drawn carriages, oil on canvas, signed (indistinctly), 69 cm x 93.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A painted shell in the manner of John Philemon Backhouse, 'Ruapehu, Tongariro, lake Taupo, New Zealand' - a view of a war canoes and a marae, oil on black-lipped oyster-pearl shell, unsigned, titled. 18 cm x 17.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Taylor (1933-2016) Untitled, coastal landscape, acrylic on board, signed. 29 cm x 36.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Frank McKelvey, A.R.H.A. (Irish 1895-1974) ‘On the Donegal Coast’ watercolour, signed, circa 1923-1930, entitled on label verso. 36 x 49.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | E. Mervyn Taylor, 'Petunia & Tom', wood block print Ed. 5.5 cm signed and entitled, 41 cm x 27.5 cm in original frame under glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Walter Vernon, oil on canvas, stagecoach outside Young’s White Horse Tavern, signed and dated ‘95, framed in ornate gilt frame. 120 x 160 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Gretchen Albrecht, 'Karekare', watercolour on paper, signed, entitled and dated '75.41 x 54.5 cm, Framed Under Glass. | *** |  |
| *** | John MacPherson (British act. 1858-1884), Herd of Cows at Watering Hole, oil on board, signed. 59 x 90 cm, gilt framed. | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Taylor (1933-2016) Untitled, coastal landscape and ship, acrylic on board, signed. 29 cm x 39 cm | *** |  |
| *** | L.W. Wilson, ‘Wallingford Bridge’, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1893, entitled on reverse. 49.5 x 89 cm In contemporary silvered finished frame. | *** |  |
| *** | Charles C. McPhee (1910 - 2002) 'Portrait of Hine Rauwha Tamaipaere', oil on velvet, signed. Provenance: Collection G.J Grace; a unique work commissioned from the artist by Grace of the renowned kuia who died in 1973, one of the last to bear the kauae… | *** |  |
| *** | Louise Henderson, 'Leaves' (untitled), oil on board, unsigned. 56 x 76 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Trevor Lloyd, 'A Giant Rata' etching, signed and entitled.39.5 cm x 19 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Karl Maughan, park scene landscape through a window, acrylic on board, signed, dated 1984 April on reverse.86.5 x 86.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | A 1935 vintage 'Railway Studios' Christchurch travel poster, 'New Zealand, South Island, The Playground Of The Pacific, Christchurch. Three vignettes to the lower image, detailed 'Railway Studios' lower left. 99 x 56.5 cm. Canvas backed. | *** |  |
| *** | Samuel E. Stuart (1855-1920), Portrait of Paora Tuhaere paramount chief of Ngati Whatua', overpainted albumen print by George Pulman, signed Stuart and dated 1893 lower right. Image 13.5 cm x 10.5 cm in ebonized frame, overall 30 cm x 27 cm | *** |  |
| *** | John Philemon Backhouse (1845-1908), 'Tongariro' - A View of a Waka and Sailboats on the lake with Ruapehu and a smoking Ngauruhoe in the background, oil on black-lipped oyster-pearl shell, signed with artist's initials and entitled. A large example and… | *** |  |
| *** | Pat Hanly, 'Innocence', etching, entitled in the plate, signed and dated '81, Number 12 of An Edition of 1.6 cm 49 cm x 50.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Robert Carrick (British 1829-1904), ‘Lost in the Woods’, oil on board, signed and dated 1887. 27 cm x 19 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Don Binney 'Kaiarara Kaka, Great Barrier', screenprint, title inscribed, signed and dated 1982, number 20 (partially obscured), of an edition of 15 cm 62.5 cm x 36.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Pearson, 'Lyttleton Gardens Ii', heavy, oil on board, signed, entitled and dated '74 on reverse. 30.5 x 305, original stained frame | *** |  |
| *** | A set of six equestrian engravings, Winners of the Great St Leger Stakes at Doncaster by (after) John Frederick Herring Snr, later coloured in oils, each gilt framed. 30 x 40 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Thomas John Grant (act. New Zealand 1845-58), A Maori Marriage Ceremony', ink and watercolour, entitled. 11 cm x 19 cm. Grant saw service in the 58th Regt. in the New Zealand Wars, of fourteen works held in New Zealand institutions all are of Maori… | *** |  |
| *** | John Tole, Floral Still Life, oil on board, signed. 34 cm x 30 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A fine antique hand painted oil on porcelain portrait of 'Louis Bonaparte' late King of Holland, depicted in formal military attire. Named to the reverse. 14.5 x 11.5 cm. In ormolu frame: Note: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (born Luigi Buonaparte; 2 September… | *** |  |
| *** | Attributed Emanuel Teter (born in Salzburg circa 1780) fine 19th century hand painted oil on ivory of Miss Grace Rose, the young Miss Rose stands with blushed cheeks wearing a white silk dress with blue ribbon highlights and shoes, holding a flower filled… | *** |  |
| *** | Alan Taylor (1933-2016) Untitled, shoreline with figures and ship, acrylic on board, signed. 29.5 cm x 39.5 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A chromolithographic print of C.F. Goldie 'All 'E same t'e Pakeha' or a good Joke (1905) Te Aho-o-te-Rangi Wharepu, a warrior chief of ngati Mahuta. Oval image 33 x 25.5 cm in period frame 54 x 46 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Robin White, 'P'kakariki Hotel Ii', colour screen print, signed, entitled, numbered 7/22 and dated 1972?. 43.5 cm x 30 cm, aluminium frame under glass | *** |  |
| *** | An 18th century oil on canvas caricature, 'An Essay on Woman', unsigned. 40 x 29 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Robert Chilvers, Yachts and Boatsheds, oil on board, 50 x 60 cm, signed and dated '63 | *** |  |
| *** | Cedric Savage, 'Westhaven Inlet', oil on canvas board, signed, original label on reverse with title, price and artist. 43 x 52 cm gilt frame | *** |  |
| *** | An etching by Trevor Lloyd (1863-1937), 'Be It Ever So Humble', signed and titled. 10 cm x 20 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Attributed to Emanuel Teter (born in Salzburg c.1780), fine 19th century hand-painted oil on ivory of Miss Grace rose, the young Miss rose stands with blushed cheeks wearing a white silk dress with blue ribbon highlights and shoes, holding a flower filled… | *** |  |
| *** | Hello Sailor - Christmas '77 at the Gluepot', band poster, unframed. 33 x 20 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An outstanding French memorial needlework and watercolour on silk, titled 'Tel Est L'amour Filial Le Tem(p)s Ne Saurait Le Fair Passer', in eglomise mount and gilt frame. Overall 41 x 49 cm. Manuscript note verso: 'Embroidered at the age of 15 by… | *** |  |
| *** | After Louis Wain, ‘We Don’t Care If We Never Have A Vote’, oil on artist’s board, entitled. 30 x 74.5 cm, original oak frame. | *** |  |
| *** | Michael Smither, Mt Taranaki, acrylic on paper, unsigned, named, entitled and dated 1968 on reverse. 32.5 x 36.5 cm, plain silvered frame, under glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Juliet Peter (1915-2009), 'The World of the Night Firers', lithograph 15/20, signed, dated '73, entitled and numbered. 51 x 94 cm. Some fading. Provenance: from the estate collection of the Auckland potters Ennis and Joyce Oliver. It hung in their studio… | *** |  |
| *** | Two vintage prints of Louis Wain cats and dogs, 'The cat's Circus' and 'The Dog's Academy', in original oak frames. The print's surrounds have been overpainted. 45 x 54 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | An early 20th century nearly life size 'American Frohse Anatomical' chart, Plate No. 2, showing the muscles of the human body in 'Front View' and 'Back View', dated 1918, published by A.J. Nystrom & Co. 160 cm x 104 cm framed under glass. | *** |  |
| *** | Douglas Badcock, 'Old Beech Trees Near Lake Ohau', oil on board, signed and dated '62, labelled on reverse, 39 x 50 cm wide. Gilt frame. | *** |  |
| *** | Charles Henry Howarth, Wanganui river, oil on board, signed, 34.5 x 50 cm, framed. | *** |  |
| *** | World War II African Campaign watercolour by C. Hansen, No.4 (gun) of F Tp 30th Bty. at No.4 position at El Alamein, further descriptive details of the scene verso. Signed, mounted, unframed. Foxed. 23.5 x 35 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Venetian School, Portrait of Mary Magdalene, oil on canvas, inscribed verso 'Original painting, Venezian school, XVI sec'. 42 x 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Robert Franken, Untitled, oil on board, 1986. 111 x 1220. A.B.: 'Robert Franken's painting career runs parallel to mine in clay, in its timing. (We are) both Dutch immigrants from the 1960s. His work is well known in Japan, and the Netherlands, but less… | *** |  |
| *** | Kenneth Jack (Aust. 1924-2006), 'Church & 2 Storey House, Braidwood N.S.W.', oil on board, signed and dated 1966, entitled verso. 20 x 25 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Julia Van Helden, Self portrait submerged in Wellington harbour', oil on board, 1975. 140 x 94 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Garth Tapper, 'Scrub', oil on board, signed, entitled verso on Leech Gallery label. Purchased from the One Man Festival Exhibition 1970. 44 x 58.5 cm. | *** |  |
| *** | Louis de Sainson, 'Nataï...', hand coloured portrait lithograph, from the Atlas of the First Voyage de L'Astrolabe (Dumont D'Urville) 1827, published in Paris 1833, plate 63: Some foxing. 44 cm x 32 cm | *** |  |
| *** | A Carrara plaster bronzed panel from the pedestal base of the Maori Statuary Group by J. McDonald (Wellington), from the New Zealand International Exhibition of Arts and Industries, Christchurch 1906-1907, illustrated in Cowan's Official Records pg.107.… | *** |  |
| *** | John Clifford, 'View from Devonport's Mt Victoria to Auckland City and its Sky Tower', acrylic painting, signed. 48 x 119 cm | *** |  |
| *** | Two 19th century English still life floral paintings on porcelain one rectangular 14 x 11.5 cm, in the manner of James Rouse Snr for Derby; the other circular 15 cm, of peonies and tulips on a marble plinth. Both in gilt gesso frames with some distress.… | *** |  |
| *** | A hand-coloured aquatint by John Cleveley (1747-1786) 'The Death of Cook', some faults and restoration 43 cm x 59 cm | *** |  |