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ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents. Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
ibson’s is delighted to announce our forthcoming Australian, Maritime & Exploration auction featuring items of Australian historical interest and importance including Australian and Colonial Furniture, Decorative Arts, Paintings and Early Photography, Scrimshaw, Artefacts, Goldfields and Convict interest, Militaria, Books and Documents.
Leading the sale is the exquisite Australian silver cake clock, commissioned by the Myer Emporium in celebration of the Centenary of Melbourne in 1934, made by renowned silversmiths, Steeth & Son, of Melbourne Cup fame. At almost five kilograms of silver, this example is twice the size of the model in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria and presents a unique opportunity for private collectors and institutions to acquire a piece of significant Victorian history.
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A large flying fox cult spirit<br />
figure, possibly Iatmul,<br />
Middle Sepik River, New Guinea<br />
with woven fibre, bead, cowrie shell<br />
and feather adornments, figural<br />
basket hook to base<br />
167cm high, 68cm wide<br />
$500–800<br />
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A ceremonial bowl, Tami<br />
Islands, Huon Gulf, 20th century<br />
with unusual carved club form<br />
designs to the rim on either side<br />
86cm long<br />
$200–300<br />
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A small Orator's stool,<br />
Middle Sepik River Region,<br />
Papua New Guinea<br />
the ancestral figure with applied clay<br />
patterning the enlarged face and<br />
cowrie shell eyes, bordered by money<br />
cowrie shells, feathers protruding<br />
from the head and chin, woven<br />
rattan 'tassels' dangling from the<br />
exaggerated ears, repeated painted<br />
motifs in vegetable pigment paint<br />
across the carved armbands and<br />
down the outer legs, seated upon<br />
a stool in the form of backwards<br />
squatting legs<br />
150cm high<br />
$400–600<br />
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A large male ancestral figure,<br />
Upper Sepik River<br />
of standing form, the bald painted<br />
face with a pointed nose and flaring<br />
nostrils above stylized bared pointed<br />
teeth, his upper arms carved with<br />
horned armbands, the chest with a<br />
raised breastplate, wearing a woven<br />
palm fibre loincloth<br />
190cm high<br />
$400–600<br />
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