A New Auction Concept
A New Auction Concept
Arts of the Middle East
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A fine Amritsar carpet, Indian, late 19th century
474 x 347cm
PROVENANCE
Australia
Artvisory is proud to announce a stylish and new auction concept — Exceptional in Australia.
This auction category is open to all disciplines and will showcase the very best that is available for auction in this country encompassing the following fields: Arts of the Middle-East, British Art and Applied Arts, Fine Chinese, Japanese and Asian works of Art, Australian Indigenous Arts, European Silver and objet d’art, Australian History and Art.
Exceptional in Australia offers a unique, curated auction structure with suitable entries being defined as an artwork or an object that is truly exceptional for its quality
and/or rarity. These items will be catalogued in depth and showcased within a beautifully published catalogue and marketed at the highest level throughout Australia, the UK, Europe, North-America and Asia.
Artvisory’s specialists are the most experienced in their fields and will collaborate together for this annual auction that will be unlike any other auction held before in Australia.
We invite you to take part in our inaugural Exceptional in Australia auction and encourage you to contact our specialists who are available to visit you privately at your home or assist with your enquiry via email or telephone.
The Property of the family of a Maharajah now living inEuropean Furniture
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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
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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
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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
Fine Chinese, Japanese & Asian Works of Art
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A superb and rare Imperial Chinese giltbronze figure of Avalokitesvara, Xuande mark and period, 1426-1435
The jewelled and crowned Bodhisattva seated in “lalitasana”, on a double-lotus throne, with one foot resting on a lotus flower, the right hand in “varada” mudra, a tiny image of Amitabha within the crown, each hand holding a fully opened lotus, adorned with beaded necklaces, pendant earrings and bracelets, the throne engraved with a six character mark, the gilt base sealed with an incised visavajra 26.5cm high, base 17cm wide
European Silver & Objet d’art
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An outstanding set of four George IV silver wine-coolers, Benjamin Smith, London, 1808 of heavy gauge and of classic campagna shape, with reeded borders and each with matching coats-of-arms, the loop handles terminating in lion masks 36cm high
Australian History
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An important museum quality ships cabin trunk, Australian red cedar and whale bone with rope and leather handles, early 19th century 56cm high, 100.5cm wide, 50cm deep
International Art
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ANDY WARHOL
Mick Jagger, 1975
one plate (F. & S. II.147) colour screen print on Arches Aquarelle signed in pencil by the artist and in felt–tip pen by Mick Jagger numbered 136/250 published by Seabird Editions, London, ink stamp to verso 110.5 x 73.3cm
PROVENANCE
Formerly in The Collection of Martyn Cook and Thomas Hamel
Specialists
Arts of the Middle East & Historic Textiles
Susan Scollay PhD FRAS +61 418 175 694
Indigenous Australian Art
Shaun Dennison +61 410 501 857
Chinese and Asian Arts
Luke Guan +61 455 891 888
Australian and International Art and Decorative Arts
Paul Sumner +61 412 337 827
European Furniture & Decorative Arts
Sandy Bruce +61 421 920 387
Email enquiries: mail@artvisory.com.au
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Images used in this brochure are illustrative of the type of items we are seeking only.
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