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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730<br />
A pair of decorative sky blue<br />
and gold Venetian style toleware<br />
hanging lanterns<br />
of waisted hexagonal form, each<br />
pane within gothic arches and<br />
decorated with applied pierced<br />
motifs, lavishly embellished<br />
throughout with applied<br />
leaves and flowerheads<br />
100cm drop, 70cm wide<br />
$2,000–2,500<br />
731<br />
A pair of decorative sky blue<br />
and gold Venetian style toleware<br />
hanging lanterns<br />
of waisted hexagonal form, each<br />
pane within gothic arches and<br />
decorated with applied pierced<br />
motifs, lavishly embellished<br />
throughout with applied<br />
leaves and flowerheads<br />
100cm drop, 70cm wide<br />
$2,000–2,500<br />
732<br />
A William IV style giltwood<br />
convex mirror<br />
56cm diameter<br />
$500–800<br />
733<br />
A trompe l'oeil carved<br />
wood console table<br />
in the Louis XV manner<br />
the rouge faux marble surface<br />
above a shaped skirt and<br />
raised on cabriole legs<br />
82cm high, 156cm wide, 64cm deep<br />
$800–1,000<br />
734<br />
A pair of carved oak torchères<br />
of knopped form and raised<br />
on triangular bases<br />
78cm high<br />
$500–800<br />
735<br />
A large painted Italian<br />
style armoire in the<br />
Neoclassical manner<br />
with an arching pediment, corbels<br />
and decorated throughout with<br />
trophies and formal elements on a<br />
distressed pale ground, opening to<br />
two shelves and long drawers<br />
280cm high, 153cm wide, 55cm deep<br />
$2,000–3,000<br />
736<br />
An Italian gold and floral<br />
painted console table<br />
in the Rococo manner with a<br />
serpentine surface above a carved<br />
and pierced apron in the rocaille<br />
manner above cabriole legs,<br />
with a lightly distressed surface<br />
and polychrome decorated with<br />
flora to the gilded ground<br />
100cm high, 142cm wide, 55cm deep<br />
$1,500–1,800
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