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Auction House:Mossgreen Auctions (No longer trading)Number of lots recorded:581
Sale Title:The Collection of Leo Schofield at Dysart House, Kempton, TasmaniaLots with images:571
Auction Location:HobartPrices available:460
Date:23-Oct-2011
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A silver mounted cowrie shell snuff box, English, dated 1800, engraved: Buphemia Mayne, from William Walker esq, 1800 crested with a swan and initialled
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A silver mounted cowrie shell snuff box, London small letter h circa 1820, the mounts and hinges silver-gilt on the inside
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A pair of good George IV mahogany sideboards, English, circa 1825, with fine quality brass back-rail Provenance: Purchased for Elizabeth Bay house, Sydney, by William (bill) Bradshaw and Paul Kenny
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Ainsi par la Vertu s'eleveni les Herps and Il Est d'un Roi de se Vaincre soi-meme, Sui Victoria indicat Regem Sic Virtus evehit ardena
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A good large Sheffield-plate rectangular soup tureen, liner and cover, English, circa 1820, applied with an engraved coat of arms in silver
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A Georgian Sheffield plate circular warming dish, by Matthew Boulton, English, circa 1800, with engraved crest, a barons coronet 4 cm high 23 cm diameter Provenance: Warwick Oakman antiques, Hobart
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A boxed set of eighteen each silver plated fish knives and forks with crested ivory handles, in three tray mahogany case with crested brass tablet, the crest is that of the Priaulx family, Guernsey
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A Chamberlains Worcester part dessert service, English, circa 1840, with wide duck egg blue borders ad gilt, comprising: 23 plates 23 cm four serving plates 27 cm and a pierced pedestal serving bowl 19 cm high, pattern number 3395 Provenance: Whitesides family Hobart. James Whitesides who traded as Whitesides & Co.arrived in Tasmania from Ireland in 1832, the firm was awarded a gold medal at the great Exhibition for furniture manufacturers. As well as manufacturing furniture, they imported goods for sale…
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A pair of prints of Collegium Medicumn and Die Blufegel, Les Sangsues after Louis Leopold Boilly, 27 x 21 cm and another stipple engraving of La terre, 14 x 16 cm
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A set of six gilt white scroll edge dinner plates, English, mid 19th century, with iron red and black painted crests 26 cm diameter
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A Carrara marble bust of a Vestal after Antonio Canova, Italian 19th century, the original version of this sculpture is in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. 56 cm high
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A collection of white Irish napery, in original gold medal brand boxes 40 x 25 and 29 x 22 cm This linen was supplied for use by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, their two Sons Prince Richard and Prince William, and staff when in 1946 they spent a two month holiday at Malunah, an historic Victorian mansion in Devonport, Tasmania, the Duke was then Governor-General of Australia.
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A fine pair of silver rectangular tureens and covers, London 1804 by Robert Garrard, the finials in the form of a castle turret crested, bases with scratch weights 57.5 and 57.14 and numbered 3 and 4 305gms
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Four exceptional George III mahogany hall chairs, English by Thomas and G Seddon, London, English, circa 1800, bearing painted crests one stamped Tb, 92 cm high, seats 44 cm wide. Provenance: one pair Martyn Cook Antiques, Sydney the other Horners Auctions Norfolk August 2005. Note: the Seddon family ran a large cabinetmaking and upholstery business in London from 1753 until the mid-19th century (C. Gilbert, pictorial Dictionary of marked London furniture 1700-1840, London, 1996, p.414, fig. 821). A pair…
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A gilt bronze and bronze Colza oil lamp, French, circa 1820, with glass shades, approx. 95 cm drop and 65 cm wide. Provenance: Hadspen house, Somerset, England
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Adone prende congedo de venere per andarre alla caccia, Venere, Evfrosine, Aglaia, Talia, Ebe con aureo serto incoronata, G Tognoli dis.Ang bertini incise and D Marcetti incise, a set of four monochrome prints
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Portrait of John Thomas Barber Beaumont, full-length, seated, in a black coat, holding a quill in his right hand, by a table with an inkstand and documents inscribed 'Thorley Sedgewick/..Mons', the County fire office beyond, Exhibited London, Royal Academy, 1823, No. 189. Provenance: Christie's London, May 19, 2005, the Royal and Sun Alliance collection, Lot 41. John Thomas Barber Beaumont founded the County fire and Provident life Insurance offices in 1807, and the office's opening meeting is recorded as…
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A fine George IV mahogany lobby console table, English or Scottish, circa 1825, with thick marble top. Provenance: John Hawkins Antiques, 2005
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Four neo-Pompeian gouaches of emblematic female figures Michelangelo Maestri, Italian, 19th century, four classical figure studies, each approximately 41 x 30 cm, two of these subjects are illustrated in Pompei XVIII Siecle, Gouaches, published by Musee du Louvre, Paris 1992
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A fine Regency period ebonised and parcel gilt scroll end neo-Egyptian settee, English, circa 1815 covered in striped gold silk.
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