JEWELLERY, DECORATIVE & FINE ARTS AUCTION Tuesday, 29 April 2025 / 10:00 am start
Sally Tagg 'Wreath with Star',
Lot Details
photograph with archival inks on rag paper, signed and entitled 1/3. 980 x 980mm.
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A quality vintage Oriental bronze temple set - includes pair candlesticks/rosokutate (H.480mm), a pair temple vases with removeable shishi handles plus lidded koro/potpourri. In good polish. All in original wooden box.
Estimate: $300 - $600
An 18thC Russian silver table box - the lid cast with a relief scene of two women in a treed landscape surrounded by cherubs. Fine engraved border bands. Stamped mark for 1786. Dia.90mm. 212gms.
Estimate: $800 - $1,200
A Japanese katana - with cloth bound ray skin covered hilt with menuki, the tang with single fixing hole, tsuba with landscape decoration. Small area of pitting to blade and other slight oxidation. Blade L.710mm. Overall in lacquer scabbard with some faults 1050mm.
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One of a matched pair, a massive Japanese Imari porcelain charger - see previous lot for additional details.
Estimate: $500 - $1,000
A rare set of four George II and III silver gilt apostle spoons
Estimate: $1,800 - $3,000
A highly decorative and energetic bronze of a bodhisattva Shaolin monk - wielding his khakkhara staff in his raised arm and manifesting a flaming pearl in his left hand, stamped under the hem of his flaring cloak with two undeciphered zhuanshu script seal marks. The surface treatments including cold painting and enhanced verdigris patination. The poised stance above rising and falling waves mirroring the Buddhist concept of finding balance and equanimity amidst change, the ebb and flow - life and death. H.1010mm,
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A 19thC Russian niello silver cigarette case - finely decorated with figures in horse drawn sliegh and leafy scrolls. Blue gem to the thumbpiece. Maker's mark for Pyotr Ambrosimov of Moscow 1869 - 1908.
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One of a matched pair, a massive Japanese Imari porcelain charger - decorated with madoe panels of 'brocade' patterns, gilt dragon rondel motifs, ancient pines and an unfurling scroll depicting Manchurian cranes in flight between ribbons of mist on a background of jade and gold cloud forms. The reverse rim painted with chrysanthemum and blossom branches in iron red and underglaze blue, Dia.600mm.
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A well carved Japanese bone scabbarded and hilted tanto dagger - the scabbard carved in relief with an elephant and numerous attendants along with observers climbing a tree, the hilt with a group of figures, a small kodzuka blade inset to the scabbard. Straight blade, double edged top side for 90mm. Overall L.280mm.
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A c.1900 Japanese novelty white metal vesta case - as a monkey, its attention drawn to a bee on its leg. The bee and mouth highlighted in gilt and bronze overlay. H.65mm.
Estimate: $160 - $300
An early 20thC decorative silver box - the lid with elaborate fret cut reed, foliate and bird decorated scene jewelled with marcasite's (minor losses) and pink stones on black probably silk ground, geometric engraved Art Deco style decoration. 80 x 60 x 15mm. 118gms.
Estimate: $200 - $400
A Lady Amherst cock pheasant - perched on a natural branch which attaches to the wall. H.950mm.
Estimate: $560 - $1,000
An old katana in tachi mounts (handachi - with cloth bound ray skin covered hilt with tachi kashira, chrysanthemum menuki, chrysanthemum decorated tsuba, the tang with incised and stamped characters, single fixing hole. Overall surface oxidation to blade, multiple nicks to blade edge. In plain wood saya with tachi style koshirae. Blade L.650mm. Overall 925mm.
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A Tibetan Buddhist kartika (ceremonial knife) on ornate axe shaft, 19thC - steel crescent blade set in bronze mounts incorporating swastika engraved octagon mount and vajra terminals on a double baluster knopped shaft. L.340mm.
Estimate: $200 - $400
An Edwardian silver bosun's whistle - presentation engraved 'H.O & R.B. 2-6-06'. Birmingham 1905 by Gorge Unite.
Estimate: $200 - $400
A 19thC Russian niello silver cigar case - finely decorated in a diaper pattern with floral border and framed cartouche. Push button release, the interior with marks for the maker Mikhail Foydorovich Sokolov and Moscow assay master's mark for Victor Vasilyevich Savinsky. 1867. W.120mm. 163gms.
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A superb late 18thC/early 19thC Japanese Shibuichi soft metal tsuba - quality high relief gambolling Shishi playing in a waterfall, with gold and silver highlighted foliage. Signed Terumitsu. In fitted box.
Estimate: $2,200 - $2,800
An interesting NZ Fire Brigade Long Service Medal - to R O Hilton of Christchurch, together with his UFBA Medal with 4 bars (2 fitted), this dated 1980.
Estimate: $200 - $350
A Japanese tanto in bone scabbard and hilt - the sectional scabbard and conforming hilt, carved in low relief with numerous figures. Single edged blade. Overall L.405mm,
Estimate: $300 - $400
An Edwardian silver pair of Georgian style sugar scissor nips - shell bowls. London 1902 by William Hutton & Sons Ltd. 32gms.
Estimate: $120 - $240
