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Furniture — Mossgreen Auctions

$197,175
Arguably Australia's Most Important and Earliest Cedar Secretair…
$164,910
A most important cedar and string-inlaid sixteen- leg D-end sect…
$99,678
A Most Important and very rare first period cedar and New South …
$71,700
A Rare and Important early colonial Neo-classical cedar bookcase…








Auction House: Mossgreen Auctions
Number of lots recorded: 1,045
Lots with images: 1,040
Prices available: 1,045
Category: Furniture




Lot Description Price Image
*** Arguably Australia's Most Important and Earliest Cedar Secretaire Bookcase yet found Circa 1820-25 115 x 249x 51 cm Previously undocumented with 18th century design elements and Georgian master crafted cabinet work. With Hepplewhite inspired swan necked pediment with Chippendale pinwheel adornment. Georgian 13 pane glazing bar pattern with original drawn glass. Of beautiful line and proportion constructed from select early dense cedar.… ***
*** A most important cedar and string-inlaid sixteen- leg D-end sectional dining table Australian circa 1835 76 x 315 x 138 cm Provenance: By repute the Macarthur Onslow family Lady Greene Sydney ***
*** A Most Important and very rare first period cedar and New South Wales rose mahogany (dysoxylon fraserianum) sofa table Australian, Sydney, Circa 1820 159 x 71x 65 cm Veneered to the top with rose mahogany on cedar and to the drawer fronts and in the solid to the splayed Regency legs, burr cedar to the stepped pedestal and the quadraform platform base, all other secondary wood cedar, stringing detail in ebony, original slip on brass castors.… ***
*** A Rare and Important early colonial Neo-classical cedar bookcase Australian, Sydney, Circa 1835-45 153 x 260x 56 cm Multi-paned glazed top with original drawn glass (11 panes to each side), carved scroll crests, fielded cross-banding to doors and cornice, two ogee fronted drawers, framed with acanthus carving, the cupboard doors with carved corner adornments flanked by boldly carved serpentine scrolls, standing on lions paw feet.… ***
*** A fine set of four silver-plated display cabinets, French, circa 1925 By Joly & Cie, Paris Provenance A boutique jewellery store in Rue de la Paix, Paris, circa 1925. ***
*** A Highly Important first period early colonial cedar demi lune Circa 1810-15 71 x 95 cm Cedar demi lune semi circular string inlaid fold over side table, Australian, Sydney, Circa 1810-15 Primary timber tested as red cedar, secondary timber (back rail) tested as eucalypt, scientific wood test document supplied. Concave scratch moulded edge, cedar veneer on cedar apron frieze detailed to the edge with a lighter timber.… ***
*** A exceptional and very rare Elizabethan oak refectory banquet table of impressive proportions English 17th century. 412 x 80 x 80 cm ***
*** A magnificent coromandel gilt and polychrome on black lacquer eight-fold screen, early 19th C, depicting a genre scene of people going about their daily pursuits, within a walled town, a range of mountains in the background, framed within a decorative, floral border, 245 cm high x 451 cm long. A very similar screen sold by Mallett At Martyn Cook (Antiques) Pty Ltd, 1992. invite cover illustration. Provenance: Martyn Cook, Sydney. ***
*** A William and Mary burr walnut and feather banded escritoire, English, late 17th Century, 160 x 98 x 48 cm ***
*** A Pair of Art Nouveau walnut display cabinets by P Dumas. Identical to one shown at the Paris Exhibition of 1900, French, Circa 1900. Ombelle pattern. 234 cm high, 191 cm wide, 56 cm deep. The Exposition Universale, Paris, 1900 was a landmark event in the history of design and decoration. The florid Art Nouveau style being championed by Emile Galle and Louis Majorelle and the L'Ecole Nancy caused a huge impression at this exhibition.… ***
*** A rare and important cedar Pembroke table Australian circa 1825 68 x 67 x 46 cm on an usual shaped pedestal to a platform base and four splayed legs. The only small Australian Pembroke documented of this form Excellent colour and patina ***
*** A Japanese black lacquer storage trunk Circa 1860 68 x 131 x 62 cm Decorated in raised gold lacquer with a flock of birds amongst flowering wisteria, engraved metal mounts ***
*** A large Tasmanian farmhouse table, circa 1840, the top made of two solid planks of huon pine. ***
*** The Important Somercotes Neo Classical early colonial double ended blackwood sofa Circa 1830 87 x 264x 66 cm Fine restrained wave shaped curvilinear backboard with folded vegetalia surmounted by a compact Prince of Wales feather pronounced outswept arms terminating in a circular paterae repeated to each end of the front rail, with an elliptical feature carved paterae to the centre on turned blackwood feet.… ***
*** A very fine and rare George IV specimen marble and carved mahogany pillar table, English or Scottish, circa 1820 in the manner of William Trotter, of Edinburgh. ***
*** A fine quality antique English ormolu mounted kingwood bureau plat in the Louis XV Style, circa 1880 76 x 158 x 80 cm The three drawer desk finely inlaid with kingwood and fruitwood, fitted with Bramah locks by J.T. Needs, Piccadilly, London ***

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