Property from the collection of a late Toorak gentleman

LOTS 21–51

21

A LATE VICTORIAN CEDAR-CASED TAXIDERMY DIORAMA OF AUSTRALIAN PARROTS

Arthur Coles, Melbourne, late 19th century

A king parrot, gang-gang cockatoo, crimson and Eastern rosellas, various lorikeets, and budgerigars, variously mounted on a tree and the ground below against a painted background of a wooded river landscape, in an Australian cedar-framed glazed case

Inscribed in chalk to the top of the case 'Mr A. Coles / Cora Lynn / [illegible] / Moonee Ponds'

The vase 114cm high, 101cm wide, 41cm

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, ‘Green Glade’, Torresdale Road, Toorak, Melbourne

Anonymous sale of that collection, E.J. Ainger, 27 November, 1994, lot 251, purchased by the late owner

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

OTHER NOTES:

Arthur Coles, born in England in about 1840, set up business as a taxidermist and furrier in a shop in Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, in 1882. Very successful in this field, he exhibited a case of birds at the Victoria Jubilee Exhibition in 1884 and had work shown at exhibitions in London.

A 1926 newspaper article on Mr Coles’s life and work refers to his residence in Moonee Ponds. $1,500-2,500

22

AN ANTIQUE MANTEL CLOCK IN A SPECIMEN WOOD CASE

The movement Waterbury Clock Company, Connecticut, the case possibly in Australian woods, last quarter 19th century

The thirty-hour balance movement and enamelled dial with glazed cover set within an octagonal case raised on a pair of C-scrolls above the elliptical base, the case, supports, and base geometrically veneered in various contrasting woods, the maker’s original printed paper label to the back of the movement 55cm high, 54cm wide, 23cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$800-1,200

23

A NEW ZEALAND SPECIMEN WOOD BOX BY WILLIAM NORRIE

Late 19th century

Rectangular, the slightly cushioned cover geometrically-veneered in various New Zealand woods including burr totara, rewa rewa, puriri, rata, and mottled kauri above the sides in mottled kauri with through dovetail joints and a base moulding, on turned feet, the carcase kauri, accompanied by an original W. Norrie trade card with a pencil diagram to the reverse indicating the woods used 10.5cm high, 31cm wide, 20cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$600-900

26

AN EARTHENWARE FIGURE GROUP IN THE MANNER OF CLODION 20th century

A seated satyr with a nymph and two putti on a rockwork base with circular foot, in a cream slip, indistict incised signature to the back of the base and impressed G.C to the underside 53cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $600-800

27

AN ITALIAN GLAZED EARTHENWARE FIGURE OF A GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG

Last quarter 20th century

Naturalistically modelled in a seated pose with mouth open, impressed mark ‘Made in Italy’ underside 86cm high

PROVENANCE:

Albany Antiques, Melbourne, 2015

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $600-800

24

A VICTORIAN MAHOGANY HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE DISPLAY AND DISPENSING CABINET, INCLUDING EARLY CONTENTS

Last quarter 19th century

A counter-top display cabinet to the front with an integral sloping desk behind, the front comprising a pair of glazed doors enclosing tubular racks, each for one hundred and sixty cardboard vial canisters, largely filled with late nineteenth and early twentieth century canisters, many never opened, flanking a reverse-painted glass advertisement for ‘Keene and Ashwell’s Homœopathic Medicines’ above a small dispensing window and a printed portrait of Samuel Hahnemann below, the desk with a hinged writing surface enclosing a compartment 77cm high, 70.5cm wide, 58cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$2,500-3,200

25

AN ANTIQUE GLAZED EARTHENWARE

UMBRELLA STAND

Late 19th century

Modelled as a fur-clothed North American hunter holding a baby seal, indistinctly signed or inscribed to the base 98cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$500-700

28

A BRONZE FIGURE OF A RETRIEVER DOG 20th century

Naturalistically modelled rearing up on with front legs out seeking attention, on an integral low base, in brown patina with areas of light verdigris, the collar gilt 82cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

A LIFE-SIZE BRASS-PLATED BRONZE FIGURE OF A TIGER

Third quarter 20th century

Naturalistically modelled in a prowling pose, growling and with the tail outstretched, the tail detachable

91cm high, 182cm long

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

30

A PAIR OF BRONZE REPLICAS OF THE ‘RIACE WARRIORS’

Reduced-scale copies after the pair of Classical Greek bronzes discovered in 1972 in the sea near Riace, Calabria, each on an integral square plinth 127cm and 126cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $2,000-3,000

31

A NEO-CLASSICAL MARBLE RELIEF 20th century

In late eighteenth century style, depicting a nude youth playing the violin while a a classically-draped woman dances with another nude youth

92cm high, 69cm wide, 5.5cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $2,000-3,000

32

Franz Xavier BERGMAN (1861–1936)

An exotic dancer

Cold-painted bronze, the front half of the skirt hinged, lifting to reveal the figure nude beneath Circa 1900

Cast with incised pseudonymous signature to the back: Nam Greb, together with a foundry mark

The rear of the base with applied pressed metal retailer’s label, ‘Nissel & Sikora, Wien’ 33cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $2,000-3,000

33

A VIENNESE PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF A FEMALE NUDE

In the manner of Franz Xavier Bergman, circa 1900 Modelled as a young woman standing on a Persian rug, the figure in a brown patina, the rug cold-painted, the base with applied pressed metal retailer’s label, ‘Nissel & Sikora, Wien’ 34cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

34

A VIENNESE PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF A FEMALE NUDE

In the manner of Franz Xavier Bergman, circa 1900 Modelled as a young woman standing on a Persian rug, the figure in a red-brown patina, the rug cold-painted, the base with applied pressed metal retailer’s label, ‘Nissel & Sikora, Wien’ 35cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

35

A PATINATED BRONZE FIGURE OF DIANA

Late 19th century, after Jean-Antoine Houdon

On an integral bronze base mounted on a circular ebonised wood plinth, with cast inscription to the base ‘Diane de Houdon’ 66cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,200-1,800

A PAIR OF PATINATED BRONZE FIGURES OF MERCURY AND FORTUNA

20th century, loosely after Giambologna

Each on a circular Neo-Classical marble and bronze plinth, each with cast inscription to the base ‘J. Bologne’ (Giambologna)

Respectively 85cm and 79cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$900-1,200

37

TWO SAMSON PORCELAIN FIGURES EMBLEMATIC OF THE ASIA AND AMERICA

After the 18th century Meissen model by J.J. Kaendler, late 19th century

Each female modeled holding their continent’s respective attributes, Asia a camel and America an alligator Asia 19.5cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$600-800

38

A MEISSEN PORCELAIN FIGURAL GROUP

After the 18th century model by J.J. Kaendler, late 19th century

Modelled as Aeneas rescuing Anchises and Ascanius, underglazed blue crossed swords and model no. 2103 17cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

$700-900

39

FLEMISH SCHOOL First half 18th century

Adam and Eve in the Garden watched by the Archangel Michael Oil on canvas 98 x 73cm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $2,000-3,000

40

Follower of Peter Paul RUBENS (1577–1640) 18th century

The Descent from the Cross Oil on oak panel 57 x 59cm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman

OTHER NOTES:

A copy in reverse after the far larger central panel of Rubens’s 1612–1614 triptych in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp. $800-1,200

41

FLEMISH SCHOOL 17th century

The Lamentation over the dead Christ Oil on copper 27.5 x 34cm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,500-2,500

42

P. MOLENA (working late 19th century)

A capriccio landscape of a riverside town in the Near East Oil on canvas Signed lower right: P. Molena 66 x 103xm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

43

ENGLISH SCHOOL Third quarter 19th century

A group of figures below a watermill in a mountainous European landscape Oil on board 59 x 68cm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

A PAIR OF ANTIQUE BRASS-MOUNTED MARBLE PEDESTALS

Last quarter 19th century

In the form of Tuscan order columns, each with a square top in plain black marble above a shaft of variegated red marble on a stepped black marble plinth base, with cast brass capital and mouldings to the base 109cm high

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,200-1,800

45

AN ANTIQUE-STYLE DUTCH CAST BRASS CHANDELIER

First half 20th century

Of typical form, the twelve lights raised on two tiers of scrolling arms radiating from a baluster stem, 79cm high, 66cm diameter

PROVENANCE:

Private collection, ‘Green Glade’, Torresdale Road, Toorak, Melbourne

Anonymous sale of that collection, E.J. Ainger, 27 November, 1994, lot 233, purchased by the late owner

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

46

A GEORGE III FIGURED MAHOGANY EXTENDING DINING TABLE Circa 1770

Comprising a pair of half-round ends, a central section with paired gate-leg supports to each long side to accommodate adjacent leaves, and two spare leaves, all above a plain frieze raised on ‘Marlborough’ moulded square supports 70cm high, 280cm long (fully extended), 122cm wide

PROVENANCE:

Purchased from Pelham Galleries, London, 7 June, 1979

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

47

A GEORGE III MAHOGANY ARCHITECT’S TABLE

Third quarter 18th century

The hinged top with removable book-rest rising on a ratchetted support for use at desk height and rising further on a second ratchetted support for use at standing height, the interior of the frieze drawer fitted with a sliding leather-lined writing surface enclosing an arrangement of compartments and concealed drawers and a swing-out pen and ink compartment to the right side, on square supports with engaged quarter-columns to their inner corners, on concealed casters

78cm high (not extended), 90cm wide, 61cm

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,500-2,000

AN ANTIQUE WALNUT CABINET

Probably Franco-Flemish, late 17th / early 18th century

The egg-and-dart cornice surmounted with a (probably added) swan-neck and urn pediment sculpted with recumbent female figures above a pair of doors enlosing an open space, on a moulded plinth base on double volute feet, the doors panelled between half-columns, the upper panels carved in low relief with Classical designs, the sides panelled 200cm high, 122cm wide, 57cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,000-1,500

49

A GEORGE III FIGURED MAHOGANY CLOTHES PRESS

Early 19th century

The upper part with a moulded cornice and frieze above a pair of oval-panelled doors enclosing an interior with one slide, the lower part with two short above two long drawers, on splayed bracket feet 198cm high, 128cm wide, 64cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $800-1,200

50

A FRENCH JAPONOISERIE STAINED BEECH DISPLAY CABINET ATTRIBUTED TO GABRIEL VIARDOT

Late 19th century

The raised shaped and moulded top above an asymmetrical arrangement of glazed compartment, open shelves, small drawer, and cupboard, on shaped feet, the velvet-lined interior of the glazed compartment with removable shelves, richly decorated throughout with fretwork, carved elements, applied ivory, and bronze mounts 170cm high, 75cm wide, 45cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Christie’s, Melbourne, 27 March, 2000, lot 273 ($4,800, as by Viardot Frères & Cie)

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,200-1,800

A FRENCH JAPONOISERIE STAINED BEECH VITRINE IN THE MANNER OF GABRIEL VIARDOT

Late 19th century

The stepped top and key pattern relief frieze above a glazed door and sides enclosing an asymmetrical arrangement of wooden shelves above movable glass shelves, on shaped feet flanking fretwork aprons, the lower part of door and sides with finely carved and incised floral and key pattern decoration 167cm high, 86cm wide, 41cm deep

PROVENANCE:

Property from the collection of a late Toorak Gentleman $1,000-2,000