Antiques & Decorative Arts
Our renowned monthly, market leading auctions include a wide range of periods and styles from antiquities and antiques through to mid-century design. European, English and NZ colonial furnishings accompany the broadest range of collectables, silver, ceramics and decorator’s items curated and catalogued by the leading team of experts in the country. Under this section we offer miscellanea, cameras, glass, Modern Movement, boxes, walking sticks, costume, ephemera, studio pottery and all manner of items.
A rare and possibly unique Victorian Grainger Worcester reticulated porcelain exhibition pedestal vase,
probably modeled by George Owen for the George Grainger owned Royal China Works in the late 1880s, predating the take-over by the Worcester factory. Photographs apparently exist in the Dyson Perrins Museum (Worcester) of the vase in the 1890s and the assumption is the vase was kept after the takeover in 1889. A photograph reproduced in Royal Worcester Porcelain 1862 to the present day, Henry Sandon, 1973, shows the vase in an upper floor window of Grainger’s shop-front at Foregate, Worcester. Some professional repair. H.800mm. Provenance: Purchased Art & Object November 2007.
Realised: $18,500
A rare 19thc quality Louis XV Style French kingwood vitrine by 'Monbro Aîné',
of serpentine form, with shaped single glazed panelled door enclosing two shelves, dramatic kingwood angled veneers and ornate ormolu mounts including full borders to the top, glazed door panel front corners and more. Original key. Stamped maker's name to the reverse 'Monbro Aîné'. 780 x 440 x 1070mm. Note: Georges-Alphonse-Bonifacio Monbro (1807-1884) was the eldest son of the Monbro cabinet-making dynasty. Georges Monbro took over the family business in 1838, adopting the professional name Monbro Aîné (‘eldest’ Monbro). He is regarded as one of the most technically accomplished and stylistically influential cabinetmakers of 19thC France. Monbro Aîné pieces are today typically held in private collections and museums, including Musée d'Orsay, Le Louvre and Musée Condé.
Realised: $8,000
LGE ANTIQUE CARVED POLYCHROME RELIGOUS STATUE H.1200mm. On short stand. 1330mm...
Provenance: Gifted to Mercy Hospice by an Auckland Gentleman returning to his country of origin, proceeds to Mercy Hospice.
Realised: $7,000
A Victorian mahogany and brass bound split campaign chest,
three small drawers over three full width, with brass military inset handles, makers Hobbs & Co. London marked to all drawer locks, raised on bun feet. 990 x 480 x 1050mm. Note: Hobbs & Co. were noted as highly regarded makers, famous for producing campaign furniture.
Realised: $6,500
19thC walnut cased polyphon,
highly decorative in two parts, the top contains the 'music box’ with ornate pediment, columns and carved detail, the base cabinet (a 2010 addition) holds the stand/disc container, contents of which are five playable discs, with conforming columns and decoration, a drawer to the base of box contains the winder/crank handle, box door key, five penny pieces.
Realised: $6,000
cantilevered steel flat bar design with black leather upholstery. Provenance: Purchased to match the previous lot
a granite dining table. The table commissioned by Ron Sang in about 2000 to suit our vendor's parent's house that Ron Sang had designed - the chairs purchased to match. Note: This set of chairs matching the chairs that Ron had in his own home - sold by Art & Object 19th March 2023. ($10,966)
Realised: $6,000
A large contemporary art brass statue of a stylised seated figure 'The Thinking Man',
modelled in a seated pose with arms crossed on knees, head dropped below shoulders. After the 'Melancholy' sculpture by Albert Gyorgy. H.1500mm.
Realised: $5,000
An impressive 19thC Venetian glass mirror,
the mirrored frame with traditional etched detail, the centre top and quadrants in deep blue glass with elaborate coloured enamel floral decoration. Damage commensurate with age. 830 x 50 x 1480mm. Provenance: Brought to NZ by Joseph Mandl, great great grandfather of the vendor, in 1864. Joseph then became mayor of Hokitika and established J Mandl and Company Brewery which later became Westland Brewery (sold to Dominion Breweries).
Realised: $5,000
A striking hand-knotted Chobi carpet,
the deep blue ground decorated with stylised floral medallions and meandering vines, one wide border guard with conforming detail together with smaller border guards. 3000 x 2000mm.
Realised: $4,400
A fine hand-knotted Tabriz carpet,
the field decorated with a scalloped form central medallion and surrounded by trailing vines and flowers, on a pastel blue ground, the quadrants with matching trailing vines and flowers on a sandy ground, multiple border guards the widest guard decorated with scalloped medallions. 3500 x 2450mm.
Realised: $4,400