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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A cinnabar lacquer circular<br />
box and cover<br />
20th century<br />
carved in relief with birds on<br />
blossoming prunus branches within<br />
floral borders, Qianlong mark<br />
27cm diameter<br />
$800–1,200<br />
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A red lacquered Burmese food<br />
offering vessel<br />
75cm high<br />
$200–300<br />
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A pair of polychrome<br />
covered vases<br />
20th century<br />
each painted with flowering<br />
lotus and inscriptions<br />
42cm high<br />
$200–400<br />
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A cast iron figure of<br />
Ganesha riding a rat<br />
late 20th century<br />
the corpulent figure seated in<br />
‘royal ease’ atop a rat or shrew<br />
and holding auspicious objects,<br />
housed in a pierced circular canopy<br />
with pendent ornaments and<br />
surrounded by numerous rodents<br />
36cm high<br />
$200–300<br />
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A large bronze censer<br />
wood stand<br />
50cm diameter<br />
$400–600<br />
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A pair of sancai glazed pillows<br />
20th century<br />
in the form of a boy and a girl<br />
30cm long<br />
$100–200<br />
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A Thai gilt wood<br />
figure of Buddha<br />
seated in dhyanasana<br />
on a waisted lotus throne<br />
110cm high<br />
$500–800<br />
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Two green glazed provincial<br />
barrel form canisters and covers<br />
27cm high<br />
$100–200<br />
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A polychrome painted wood<br />
figure of an Indian deity<br />
the four arm seated figure<br />
of Saraswati playing a sitar,<br />
the stiff leaf base raised on a plinth<br />
106cm high, 69cm wide,<br />
45cm deep (irregular)<br />
$300–500
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