At $4000, a mid-20th century an Italian silver and gilt finish horse and carriage procession ornament weighing more than three kilograms on a wooden base (Lot 144 ) finished well within its $3000-$5000 catalogue estimate range.
Furniture within the collection performed strongly with an exceptional pair of 19th century English figured and burr walnut veneer bedside tables (Lot 769 ) well above estimate at $3800.
Likewise, a late 19th century English French-style rosewood bijouterie table (Lot 772 ) more than doubled its lower estimate at $3500 and a circa 1870 French boulle fold-over card table, inlaid with scroll brass floral marquetry on red tortoiseshell (Lot 767 ) brought a similar result at $3400.
The catalogue cover piece, a rare 19th century pate-sur-pate Phanolith Neoclassical charger of the Argo by Jean Baptist Stahl (Lot 507 ), finished well within its estimate range at $3200.
Born in 1869 into a family of potters, Stahl invented and designed the phanolith – and his detailed, translucent, finely worked porcelain won him the Grand Prix at the 1900 World Fair in Paris.
The same price was reached for a 19th/20th century New Zealand Maori carved wood and paua shell box (Lot 280 ), while a 19th century English marquetry sewing companion cabinet (Lot 184 ) sold for $3100 on an $800-$1200 estimate and a pair of Japanese silver stem vases (Lot 90 ) for five times its upper estimate at $3000.
