FEATURED PIECES
An extremely rare, fine and unusual therianthropic figure of a monkey in human form, made from Brazilian boxwood by a black African enslaved carver in Salvador da Bahia, as a syncretic religious charm.
Circa 1835
$18,000
Large painted pottery sculpture of a court lady
China, Tang Dynasty (618-907), c. 8th century
Beautifully modelled as a classic ‘Tang fat lady’ in moulded terracotta with fine details including incised and hand-worked details to the robe and face, her hands held aloft inside billowing sleeves. Remnant gesso finish and polychrome present. 50.7cm high, 16.5cm wide.
Provenance: Kensoon Asiatic Art, Singapore 2004; William Rogers Collection; Jason Sprague Collection.
$15,500
CARL WANTRUP ASIAN ART
Schneider Glass – French Art Glass at its Finest
A selection of early 20th-century glassware by Schneider, known for its use of colour, form, and acid-etched decoration. Based in France during the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods, Schneider produced cameo and pâte de verre glass with bold hues and stylised botanical designs. Their work is recognised for its craftsmanship and remains valued by collectors.
Left to Right: Jades Pitcher/Ewer $1,630, Garence Vase Sold, ‘Muriers’ Mulberries $3,645, LeVerre Francais Maroons Coupe $3,275, Pierrot Pattern Vase $4,190, Dahlilias Pitcher/Ewer $1,575
CHINEUR ANTIQUES
Editions Max Le Verrier – ‘Pierrot’ Bookends
A rare pair of Art Déco bookends modelled as Pierrot. Cast in ‘fonte d’art’, a metal alloy with an applied bronze finish and ‘verdigris’ highlights. Mounted on green varigated marble bases. Signed in the metal “M. Le Verrier” and Made in France.
French, circa 1930.
$1,585
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UNE BELLE CHOSE BY CURIUM
19th-Century French Napoleon III Ebonised 4 Drawer Escritoire, c.1870. $7,950
VALENTINE’S ANTIQUE GALLERY
WOLRAB, Johann Jacob (1675-1746)
An early eighteenth-century German perpetual calendar.
Nürnberg : Johann Jacob Wolrab, [circa 1720]. Original wooden box, 270 x 105 x 40 mm, with two compartments containing removable cards: 6 double-sided cards for the months and 16 smaller double-sided cards for the days; each card is engraved and hand-coloured, but the larger cards also have hand-painted gouache decorations illustrating the months and signs of the zodiac; the verso of the sixteenth day card (i.e. the card with ’31’ on the recto) has the engraved imprint of ‘Nürnberg zu finden bey Johann Jacob Wolrab‘; the cards have an expected amount of rubbing and handling wear (one has a recent tape repair), but overall they have been remarkably well preserved, the colours still vibrant; the wooden box has a short crack on the underside.
A rare and charming perpetual calendar made and sold by Johann Jacob Wolrab (1675-1746), a Nürnberg bookseller, publisher and art dealer who is perhaps best known for his engravings of dwarf caricatures.
$14,000
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DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS
A fine and rare Australian Silver and cut glass Claret Jug, William Edwards, Melbourne, circa 1865. Superbly modelled, the jug features grape, leaf and vine applied silver decoration, repeated in the engraved glass body.
Interestingly, perched among the vines are a possum and bird, both of which may be unique to Edward’s known works.
$18,000
Mummiform wooden figure of the mortuary deity Ptah – Sokar – Osiris standing on an ancient wooden base. The mummiform figure with extensive remnants of polychrome paint decoration has an elaborate headdress, consisting of two ostrich plumes, a pair of rams horns, surmounted by a painted sun disc. Wearing a curved false beard and Tripartite wig falling over his shoulders. He has wide painted eyes, a prominent nose and mouth. Remnants of hieroglyphs down the front of the body. Sokar the hawk or falcon god sits at the end of the base on a small chest. Ptah was the Creator god, and god of artisans and architects. Osiris the God of the Dead and the Underworld.
Late Period 664 to 332 BC Ancient Egypt
CF. The Met Object number 86.1.88a-d. The Met Object number 21.9.1a-c. Bonhams London Lot 27 7th July 2022. Sotheby’s New York Lot 216 12th June 2001
PROVENANCE: Old Sydney based collection formed prior to the 1970s
$12,995
OBJECTS ECLECTIC
A rare brooch painted by Ada Newman and mounted in silver by Rhoda Wager. This is the ‘sister’ brooch to the one offered by J.B. Hawkins Antiques in 2013 and featured on the back page of ‘Australiana’ November 2013. Signed “ADA NEWMAN/1923′ and the silver mark “WAGER’.
$3,995
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