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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185<br />
An antique giltwood mirror,<br />
in the 18th century manner<br />
with an extravagant pierced crest with<br />
urn, fleur-de-lis and other floral forms<br />
above a moulded frame enclosing<br />
aged plate<br />
117cm high, 59cm wide<br />
$3,000–5,000<br />
186<br />
A Louis XV inspired<br />
silvered commode<br />
of serpentine profile with four short<br />
drawers, a dipped skirt and raised on<br />
cabriole legs, with relief carved details<br />
and silvered handles<br />
85cm high, 119cm wide, 57cm deep<br />
$1,200–1,800<br />
187<br />
A bold contemporary<br />
silvered mirror<br />
with a wavy ribbon style moulded<br />
frame<br />
194cm high, 112cm wide, 11cm deep<br />
$2,000–2,500<br />
188<br />
A large vernis martin style<br />
painted Italian chest<br />
of serpentine profile, the surface<br />
decorated with a pastoral figural scene<br />
above a frieze of running foliage in high<br />
relief, the body similarly decorated,<br />
with pendent husks issuing from ram’s<br />
heads to the canted corners and<br />
raised on hoof style feet, with key<br />
95.5cm high, 135.5cm wide,<br />
60cm deep<br />
PROVENANCE<br />
Sotheby's, New York,<br />
17th May 2006, Lot 541<br />
$6,000–7,000<br />
189<br />
A circular Louis XV inspired<br />
cherry wood table<br />
the surface with an inlaid border<br />
above a waisted skirt and raised<br />
on cabriole legs with leafy<br />
carved knees and whorl feet<br />
97cm high, 197cm diameter<br />
$1,800–2,400<br />
185
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