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AUTUMN INSPIRATION PETER WALKER FINE ART  A very rare early shell portrait of a Satyr in the style of Arcimboldo.Circa 1750, in original re-decorated frame.Image H47 W37cm / Frame H69 W59cm. $3,250 Interior: via House & Garden UK from Designer Laura Gonzalez’s Normandy house CHILTON’S ANTIQUES AND JEWELLERY French Art Nouveau 18ct Yellow Gold...

THE COLE PEPPERBOX PISTOL,  ….FROM HOBART TOWN TO THE EUREKA STOCKADE, … THE MAORI WARS AND BACK TO TASMANIA. 6 GENERATIONS OF AUSTRALIAN OWNERSHIP.  BILL LOWE SILVER SERVICE  It was an ordinary sort of day in May 2018 when a gentleman walked into my shop with a bag, within was...

NED KELLY IVORY  WALKING STICK HANDLE  J.B. HAWKINS ANTIQUES  The silver mount to the ivory handle is stamped KINGSTON & LORD MELB. Following his father Robert’s occupation, Edward Kingston (c 1841–1934) opened an umbrella shop in the late 1870s in the Royal Arcade, later operating in Swanston St ‘opposite...

HAIRWORK JEWELS  ANNE SCHOFIELD ANTIQUES  Of all the materials used in jewellery, I find the most intriguing to be human hair. It memorialises loved ones passed, and is a keepsake to be truly treasured.  I have recently acquired a superb collection of mourning jewellery made from human hair, the...

HELLO SPRING A Fine18th century pastel portrait of a woman by Polish female artist Anna Rajecka (1762-1832) also known as Madame Gault de Saint-Germain. Signed lower left in an oval gilt wood frame. H 72cm W 61.5cm $12,000 EYESPY COLLECTIVE Studio Williams, featured in Belle, see their display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair...

HELLO SPRING AMBROSE PATTERSON 1877 – 1967Luxembourg Gardensc.1905oil on panel26.5 x 35 cmsigned lower right$25,000LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART Interior: Oliver Mark Interiors WE RESTORE ANTIQUE JEWELLERY AND SILVERWAREPictured: 18ct yellow gold Seed pearl and enamel brooch, circa 1885. $2,150 PARAGON RESTORATION Irish Georgian Mahogany Pie Crust Tilt Top Wine Table, Chippendale Period c.1760.Fabulous...

GOODBYE WINTER A ceramic portrait bust of a young woman by Johannes Hedegaard (1915–1999), produced by Royal Copenhagen circa 1960. The figure is modelled in brown matt slip, with a contrasting glossy polychrome glazed headscarf decorated in triangular geometric motifs. The base carries the Royal Copenhagen factory mark together with Hedegaard’s inscribed...

THE WORLD AT YOUR FINGERTIPS BY DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS A large and highly decorative French table globe from the mid-eighteenth century, rich in geographical detail that includes the voyages and discoveries of French, English, Dutch and Russian explorers. This very rare globe shows the discoveries made in the...

DEEP WINTER TALKThursday 31 July2:00 PM BRITISH ART CERAMICS: BY DESIGN AND EXAMPLE WITH DR ANDREW MONTANA Focusing on The Johnston Collection’s Minton ceramic statue (1860) by Felix Summerly as a point of departure, this lecture highlights the importance of British ceramics in the design reform movement of the...

WINTER STYLE An excellent example of an early Australian-themed Christmas card, this card was most likely printed by Gibbs, Shallard & Co., one of the best publishers in Sydney. Colour lithograph, inscribed with Christmas greetings in ink verso, 10.8 x 18.7cm, c.1882. “The practice of exchanging Christmas-themed greeting cards first became popular...