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SPRING DELIGHTS
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
Loet Vanderveen (Dutch, 1921 – 2015)
Sitting Panther, c. 1994
Patinated bronze with polished detailing
Signed LOET © 49/1750
H 31.5cm, L – Tail to Foot Paw 31cm, Base width 11cm; Weight 6.7 kilos.
$1,995 CHINEUR ANTIQUES
Featured in the 2025 Antiques & Art Fair Sydney Catalogue – OUT NOW!
Studio Williams, featured in Belle, see their display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Powder flask
Rare extensively carved green coconut “bug-bear” gun powder flask. English c.1790. L 15cm W 11cm H 9cm. $850
PENTIMENTO
Pentimento is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
ANTIQUES & ART FAIR SYDNEY 2025 CATALOGUE
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An unusual full-sized pale-blue Portland Vase.
The mid-19th century shade of blue is particularly pleasing.
H 25cm. Base 12.8cm. Wedgwood, c. 1860. $8,000 ETRURIA ANTIQUES GALLERY
Featured in the 2025 Antiques & Art Fair Sydney Catalogue – OUT NOW!
TALKS AT THE FAIR
Featuring leading experts in antique jewellery, Australiana and silver. Drawing on decades of experience, they will share insights into the history, design and collecting of these fascinating areas.
Saturday 8 November 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Anne Schofield
Mourning Jewellery – ‘mementos moris’ from the past.
DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882)
On the origin of species, by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. (1859)
London : John Murray, 1859. First edition (with two quotations only, from Whewell and Bacon, on the verso of the half-title leaf). $625,000 DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS
Douglas Stewart Fine Books is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair, Glasshouse, State Library of New South Wales 23 – 25 Oct 2025. Presented by ANZAAB. Along with the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair 8-10 November, the Toronto Antiquarian Book Fair 14-16 November and Firsts Hong Kong 5-7 December 2025.
An Early Colonial Australian Fold-Over Card Table att. to the Sydney master cabinetmaker Lawrence Butler (act. 1802-1820), Butler advertises in 1815 that he has for sale (… patent dining tables on pillars, on the newest construction, dressing and shaving boxes with glasses, card tables an elegant cabinet and escritoire,…)
This table is of superb quality and “high style” It features blackwood cross-banding to the top and the skirt has a panel of blackwood. Huon pine inlay is used extensively including the top, skirt, platform & the legs which terminate with brass castors, NSW origin, 19th century patina, c.1815 (74.5 x 92 x 45.5) $45,000 SIMPSON’S ANTIQUES
Antique 22ct Yellow Gold Half Sovereign Coin ‘1916’. $1,295
A fine Demetre Chiparus Art Deco gold patinated bronze & ivory fruit gatherer figurine, the young girl wearing a pinafore, bonnet & stockings with bow trim and all raised on a white marble base, c.1920. H 23.5cm $8,950 ABBOTT’S ANTIQUES
John Richard Passmore (1904-1984)
Australia
Landscape with Figures and Tree, circa 1940
Oil on canvas
41 x 51 cm
Provenance:
The Passmore Trust, Sydney
$24,500
PETER WALKER FINE ART
Antique Onyx and Diamond Ring
Art Deco, c.1920, plaque ring featuring a rectangular onyx panel with inverted oval to centre of onyx stone in a double claw setting, featuring a central bezel set old cut cognac diamond, with wire detailed upswept shoulders and a polished band in 18ct white gold.
Total Estimated Diamond Weight: 0.12ct
Colour Cognac, Clarity P1
W 4.275grams
$2,850 RUTHERFORD
Rutherford is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Vincent Jenden Designat the AAADA Melbourne Fair, see his display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Written from the Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, 10 May, 1787
A wonderful original letter by Newton Fowell, the eighteen-year-old midshipman on HMS Sirius whose moving and evocative letters from the First Fleet have been one of the treasures of the State Library of New South Wales since they were acquired in 1987. This candid letter to his father John Fowell of Black Hall, North Huish, Devon, is dated “Sirius, 10 May 1787” and was written aboard the flagship of the First Fleet just three days before she set sail for Botany Bay.
Quarto, three pages and address leaf, manuscript in ink on paper, with original wax seal, two filing holes in lower margin of each leaf; stamped “Gosport”, small collector’s stamp with manuscript cancellation.
$165,000 HORDERN HOUSE
Hordern House is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair Glasshouse, State Library of New South Wales 23 – 25 Oct 2025. Presented by ANZAAB
George III Oak High Dresser North Country three drawer dresser with open rack compartmented for display of Delft and Pewter etc, c. 1770. The pediment with dental cornice. The drawers to the base with original swan neck handles, crossbanded and strung fronts. D 51cm H 182cm W186cm $6,400 WESTBURY ANTIQUES
OWEN YALANDJA 1962– (Kuninjku)
Yawk Yawk Spirit Figures 1998
natural earth pigments on carved hardwood
Provenance: Maningrida Arts and Culture
H 172cm & 151.5cm
$8,000 & $6,500
LAURAINE DIGGINS FINE ART
Lauraine Diggins Fine Art is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Studio Williams, featured in Belle, see their display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Thea Proctor (Aust., 1879-1966).
The Balcony
c.1919. Colour lithograph, signed in pencil lower right, 28 x 27.5cm.
From an edition of 50, which was not completed, and is rarely seen in the market.
The man depicted on the balcony is Maurice, the son of artist George Lambert. Ref: Butler #9. $8,800 JOSEF LEBOVIC GALLERY
Josef Lebovic Gallery is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair, Glasshouse, State Library of New South Wales 23 – 25 Oct 2025. Presented by ANZAAB
Josef Lebovic Gallery is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Look for the trusted gold AAADA Logo at the various fairs around Australia that our Members exhibit at.
It ensures they:
~ Adhere to professional standards that protects the value of items purchased
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Members of Confédération Internationale des Négociants en Œuvres d’Art (CINOA)
Cottage Flowers
Rehfisch, Alison
c.1940’s
Oil on board
28 cm x 23 cm
$8,800
CHRISTOPHER DAY GALLERY
Studio Williams, featured in Belle, see their display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
A sterling silver and enamel Australian Coat of Arms. Angus and Coote, Sydney c 1940.
10 cm X 15cm. 170 gms $4,750 TRINITY ANTIQUES
Trinity Antiques is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
This medal alludes to the dowry brought with Charles’s marriage to Catherine, which laid the foundation of the British Empire in India or possibly to the acquisition of territory notably in North America and Asia….
Read the full article on p.71 of the 2025 Antiques & Art Fair Sydney Catalogue – OUT NOW!
Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596) Cyclops
Artist: After Tibaldi Pellegrino (Italian 1527-1596)
Engraver: Jan de Bisschop (Dutch 1628-1671)
Polyphemus and the Flight of the Greeks Copperplate Engraving on Laid Watermarked Paper
Image Size: Height 17 cm x Width 13.7 cm. (Note: this item is not framed but is supplied in an acid-free mount).
Sheet Size: Height 30.8 cm x Width 22.7 cm.
Condition: Good, has been cleaned, small blemish of old mat burn and a small repaired tear to the centre left edge of the print. Both the faint mat burn and tear are easily concealed by the mount. $650 WRIGHT GALLERY FINE ART
WE RESTORE ANTIQUE JEWELLERY AND SILVERWARE
Australian Locket brooch in original fitted “JM Wendt” box Circa 1890.
Two colour 15ct gold alloys, finely made, with hand set flower design.
Burmese Pink Sapphire, rose-cut diamonds and seed pearls.
38mm x 26mm $2,500 PARAGON RESTORATION
Vincent Jenden Design at the AAADA Melbourne Fair, see his display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Fine George III Sterling Silver Snake Handled Cup, London 1808, maker Rebecca Emes and Edward
Barnard I.
H 7.5cm, width including handle 9.5cm, weight 165 grams. $950 SILVER SERVICE ANTIQUES
Silver Service Antiques is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Maurice Frecourt – ‘Isis’ Bookends
A rare pair of Art Déco / Egyptian Revival bookends each with a bronzed metal bust of the Egyptian Goddess, Isis. Mounted on square Potoro marble bases. Impressed marks ‘Frecourt, Made in France’.
French, circa 1925.
Very good antique condition. Some minor losses to patina and some small nibbles to edges of marble. H 13cm Bases: 9cm x 9cm $1,875 UNE BELLE CHOSE BY CURIUM
Une Belle Chose by Curium is exhibiting at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
Pair of Figured Lamps
Lovely pair of spelter figures with beaded lamps. labelled Amour & Printemps and by Rancoulet. c.1900. $1,400 PAGE ANTIQUES
Asia and its Islands according to D’Anville, c.1787; Divided into Empires, Kingdoms, States, Regions & with the European Possessions and Settlements in the East Indies and an Exact Delieneation of all the Discoveries made in the Eastern Parts by the English unde
Image Size: 120cm x 145cm Paper Size: 120cm x 145cm
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697 – 1782)
James Whittle (1757 – 1818)
Robert Laurie (1755 – 1836)
Robert Sayer (1725 – 1794)
$ 8,500 ANTIQUE PRINT MAP ROOM
Antique Print Map Room is exhibiting at the Sydney Rare Book Fair, Glasshouse, State Library of New South Wales 23 – 25 Oct 2025. Presented by ANZAAB
Home Comforts invites visitors to ponder, ‘What makes a home, a home?’ Each room of Fairhall has been re-imagined, revealing new stories about the meaning of ‘home’ in the 1700s and 1800s, with a focus on family life…
Read the full article on p.60 of the 2025 Antiques & Art Fair Sydney Catalogue – OUT NOW!
Vincent Jenden Design, see his display at the AAADA Antiques & Art Fair Sydney, 6-9 November, Paddington Town Hall.
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