Arts of the Middle East

RIGHT

A fine Amritsar carpet, Indian, late 19th century

474 x 347cm

PROVENANCE

Australia

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European Furniture

BELOW

A superb and rare George I scarlet lacquer bureau bookcase, English, circa 1730

215cm high, 100cm wide, 59cm deep

PROVENANCE

From the collection of Mr and Mrs P. HackforthJones, Melbourne Literature Antiques in Australia from Private Collections, John Rogan, Illustrated

Himalayan and South-East Asian Art

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A very fine and rare Nepalese bronze parcel-gilt figure of Tara, 9th-10th century the heavily bejeweled figure standing in tribhanga on a round lotus pedestal with a ring for attachment to a shrine, the right hand in varada mudra, the left in kataka mudra holding the stalk of the lotus (Padma) the flower upon the left shoulder, wearing a transparent robe and a three-leaf crown

25.4cm high

REFERENCE see Hugo Munsterburg Scupture of the Orient, NY, 1972, p. 31 for a very similar Tara in the British Museum

Indigenous Arts

RIGHT

EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE (CIRCA 1910–1996)

Summer Rains on Alalgura, 1991 acrylic on Belgium linen

130 x 230cm

PROVENANCE

Delmore Gallery, Northern Territory, catalogue reference IS06

Formerly in the Collection of Ross Clarke, Brisbane

European Works of Art

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A large carved and gilded polychrome lamentation, probably North German, early 16th century

119cm high, 90cm wide, 22cm deep

PROVENANCE

Graham Cornall Antiques, Melbourne

British Art

ABOVE

HENRY MOORE, BRITISH (1898-1986)

Helmet bronze

Head, 1960

29.5cm high

This bronze sculpture was cast around 1960 from a version made in lead in 1950. It was from a series of works that addressed the theme of protection through the form of a helmet and would have been influenced by Moore’s experiences of fighting in the trenches during the First World War.

Australian Art

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BRETT WHITELEY (1939–1992)

The Turquoise Prince oil on board and collage signed brett whiteley 79 with Japanese character lower right and inscribed; ‘I don’t see him often but the turquoise prince on his occasion fishlessly flows past my garden’ 82 x 103cm

PROVENANCE

Brett Whiteley exhibition ‘Birds’ at Robin Gibson Gallery, Church street, Surry Hills, Sydney, 1979 Mr & Mrs Denis Ryan, Sydney Private Collection, Sydney