Graham Geddes The Grand Tour
Revered connoisseur, collector and dealer, Graham Geddes has been trading in antiquities, antique furniture, fine and decorative art for over fifty years, gathering a loyal and high-profile clientele along the way. Passionate in his pursuit of beauty and knowledge, Graham is esteemed as one of the world-leading experts in the trade, maintaining his unparalleled reputation via a thorough research programme for the select pieces that he deals in. It is with great pleasure that Gibson’s announces The Graham Geddes Sale, an auction of elegance and eclecticism. The impressive sale will be held over the course of three days, Saturday 14 – Monday 16 October and will include examples of Graham’s trademark tastes in furniture, decorative arts, Greek and Roman antiquities, Chinese and Asian art and garden statuary.
Revered connoisseur, collector and dealer, Graham Geddes has been trading in antiquities, antique furniture, fine and decorative art for over fifty years, gathering a loyal and high-profile clientele along the way.
Passionate in his pursuit of beauty and knowledge, Graham is esteemed as one of the world-leading experts in the trade, maintaining his unparalleled reputation via a thorough research programme for the select pieces that he deals in.
It is with great pleasure that Gibson’s announces The Graham Geddes Sale, an auction of elegance and eclecticism. The impressive sale will be held over the course of three days, Saturday 14 – Monday 16 October and will include examples of Graham’s trademark tastes in furniture, decorative arts, Greek and Roman antiquities, Chinese and Asian art and garden statuary.
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FRENCH SCHOOL<br />
A pair of romantic idylls,<br />
18th century<br />
oil on canvas<br />
each 72 x 58cm, frames 89 x 76cm<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
<strong>The</strong> Farly collection,<br />
North Acton, 1970s<br />
$2,000–3,000<br />
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An Italian walnut<br />
Cardinal type chair<br />
of square section with tooled leather<br />
to the back, turned arm supports<br />
to a stuffover seat, a carved and<br />
pierced seating rail enhanced by<br />
studwork, and raised on a trestle<br />
base with stylised paw feet<br />
153cm high, 66cm wide, 43cm deep<br />
$1,000–1,200<br />
472<br />
A tapestry covered walnut Louis<br />
XV style stretcher-based chair<br />
with camelback, padded arms<br />
and a serpentine seat above relief<br />
carved legs with whorl ends<br />
116cm high, 66cm wide, 58cm deep<br />
$1,500–2,200<br />
473<br />
A Louis XVI style kingwood<br />
parquetry and intarsia bouillotte<br />
table, 19th/20th century<br />
with a low wood gallery enclosing<br />
chequered stringing and a scene of<br />
a romantic couple dancing to a piper<br />
in a formal garden, with twin drawers<br />
and slides to the skirt and raised on<br />
tapering square section legs<br />
79cm high, 66cm diameter<br />
$1,500–2,000<br />
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A large rustic style oak<br />
stretcher-based console table<br />
with four carved frieze drawers<br />
above boldly ring turned legs<br />
united by an ‘H’ form stretcher<br />
83cm high, 235cm wide, 60cm deep<br />
$1,200–1,500<br />
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A pair of similar antique walnut<br />
stretcher-based armchairs in<br />
the 17th century manner<br />
with high square backs with curved<br />
arms, one with bobbin seating rails<br />
and raised on bobbin legs, the other<br />
of plainer form, both upholstered with<br />
matching tapestry fabric<br />
117cm high, 60cm wide, 70cm deep<br />
(to the tip of the curved arms)<br />
$1,500–2,000
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