View ▼ Items per page 102550100 Sort by DefaultTime LeftLot#Lot NameNewestHighest PriceLowest PriceBids (Low - High)Bids (High - Low)Views (Low - High)Views (High - Low)Relevance Filter By Categories Category match ANY of the aboveALL of the above Featured Exclude closed lots Price Lot Number Results: Viewing items 1-18 of 18. Previous|1|Next Image Lot # Item Title Quantity Time Left Your Bids 154 DAME NELLIE MELBA INTEREST. A superb antique Australian miniature chest of six drawers with cantilever top and finely carved rococo corbels, Australian cedar and celery pine with kauri pine and cedar secondary timbers, late 19th century. The piece is purported to have belonged to Melba and was part of the furnishings of COOMBE in the Yarra valley on the outskirts of Melbourne. An exceptional piece befitting the famed diva. 58cm high, 49cm wide, 34cm deep Estimate$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold View details 156 A fine Australian antique apprentice chest of nine drawers with full turned columns and feet, kauri pine, circa 1870, 46cm high, 37cm wide, 26cm deep Estimate$2,500 - $3,500Price Realized$4,000StatusSold View details 157 An antique Colonial writing slope box, blackwood, huon pine, tulip wood, cedar, pine and fiddleback blackwood, Tasmanian origin, 19th century, 16.5cm high, 45.5cm wide, 46cm deep Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$750StatusSold View details 158 RUDOLPH W. UNGER (Germany, South Australia, 1846-927), rare carved wooden jewellery box in the Black Forest style with unusual pivot swinging compartments, South Australian origin, late 19th century, signed "R. Unger", 14cm high, 18cm wide, 10cm deep Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,800StatusSold View details 159 An antique Australian apprentice chest of four drawers, birdseye huon pine and cedar with kauri pine secondary timbers, circa 1875, 35cm high, 39cm wide, 28cm deep Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSold View details 160 RUDOLPH W. UNGER (Germany, South Australia, 1846-927), carved panel in frame, circa 1900, Australian timbers, 84 x 64cm (overall). Unger arrived in Australia from Germany in 1883. He was in business with his sons in Adelaide between 1900 and 1904, and later on his own account until 1916. He is represented in the Art Gallery of South Australia, and a blackwood book chest incorporating a panel carved by him was presented to the Duke and Duchess of York in 1901. It is in the collection of the Stat Estimate$4,000 - $6,000StatusUnsold View details 163 SCHRAMM (attributed), superb fiddleback blackwood antique picture frame with kookaburra print, Melbourne, Victorian origin, late 19th century. August Schramm operated from 38 Kerr Street Fitzroy from 1891-1904, and then moved to 60 Westgarth Street Fitzroy until 1924. His work using Australian native timbers was unsurpassed in his day, making spectacular specimen wood boxes and superb picture frames using the finest cuts of timber. 58 x 53cm Estimate$600 - $1,000Price Realized$3,400StatusSold View details 164 A fine and rare silk and silver thread embroidered Australian coat-of-arms, circa 1890s, the central shield depicting cattle, shipping, mining and wheat harvesting, supported by an inward facing emu (left) and kangaroo (right), surrounded by four flags, with the rising sun at top, a panel with "ADVANCE AUSTRALIA" and various fruits and vegetables at base. Attractively displayed in a period oak frame and in superb condition, 72 x 73.5cm (overall, including frame). Estimate$2,000 - $3,000StatusUnsold View details 165 An Australian Coat of Arms, cast bronze mounted on timber panel, late 19th century, 40cm high, 77cm wide Estimate$1,200 - $2,000Price Realized$4,100StatusSold View details 166 WILLIAM NORRIE (New Zealand) jewellery box, handsomely inlaid with native New Zealand timbers including, totara, puriri, mottled kauri, kohekohe, pukatea, rewarewa, white maire and others. Interior fitted with two lift out trays with original red cloth lining, late 19th century. William Norrie, Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand was awarded a medal for excellence at the Sydney International Exhibition 1879. 21cm high, 43cm wide, 24cm deep Estimate$3,000 - $4,000Price Realized$8,500StatusSold View details 167 ROBERT PRENZEL (attributed), rare Australian Art Nouveau mantel clock, early 20th century. Shallow stepped inverted bell top case supported on full height sabre pilasters terminating in out swept feet, marquetry inlaid black bean dial with maple inlaid Arabic numerals and brass spade hands, fiddleback maple hinged door with leaf floral inlay to the corners and decorative patinated copper strap hinges. Case unusually fitted with a single drawer for clock key storage with figured blackwood knobs, Estimate$6,000 - $8,000StatusUnsold View details 168 ROBERT PRENZEL "Kookaburra" carved timber panel in original carved framed, early 20th century, 61 x 72cm Estimate$15,000 - $25,000Price Realized$12,000StatusSold View details 169 JOHN KENDRICK BLOGG stunning Australiana panel depicting a naturalistic eucalyptus branch, superbly carved in high relief, signed and dated "John K. Blogg, 1924". Museum quality. A Tour de Force of Australian craftsmanship. One of the finest examples in private hands. 48 x 121cm. Estimate$40,000 - $60,000Price Realized$135,000StatusSold View details 170 A most unusual 1934 Melbourne Centenary sampler, with a verse from Banjo Paterson, a Cobb & Co coach, the winning aeroplane from the MacRobertson Air Race, the Melbourne coat of arms, etc., attractively displayed in a Tasmanian musk frame (circa 1830s). 53.5 x 46cm overall Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$2,200StatusSold View details 171 TABUA scrimshaw whale's tooth, 19th century. An unusual combination of a Fijian chieftain's whale tooth pendant that has been souvenired by a sailor and decorated at some later point with biblical scene of Abraham about to sacrifice Isaac. A rare example. 12cm high Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,200StatusSold View details 172 An impressive scrimshaw whale's tooth engraved with ship portrait and whaling scene, signed on both sides (illegible), 13cm long Estimate$1,000 - $1,500Price Realized$1,400StatusSold View details 173 An impressive miniature mahogany breakfront wardrobe, interior attractively fitted with drawers and compartments, circa 1870, 76.5cm high, 103.5cm wide, 35cm deep Estimate$2,000 - $3,000Price Realized$1,600StatusSold View details 174 A. PERUGIA & SON pair of antique terracotta architectural statues on column pedestals, 19th century, incised "A. PERUGIA & SON, MELBOURNE", 217cm high overall 2 Estimate$8,000 - $10,000StatusUnsold View details Items per page 102550100 Previous|1|Next Previous 1 Next
