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A circa 1725 English Georgian spring table clock with an ebonised bell top case and ormolu mounts (lot 641) doubled its high estimate of $6000 ($13,145 with buyer’s premium) to take out top billing at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions decorative arts and collectables sale on March 18.
An antique red stone statue of the Indian goddess Rajasthan (lot 1006) filled second spot with a price tag of $9560 – while a pair of late 18th century demi-lune commodes (lot...
Despite some of the more valuable painted Royal Worcester plaques not going under the hammer, there was plenty of interest in Ken and Gloria Ely’s world-renowned collection of works by the English porcelain manufacturer at Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions February 27-28 sale.
At $20,000 hammer price and more than three times the catalogue estimate, the top selling item was a signed 1912 William Hawkins porcelain plaque (lot 14).
Painted after Jean Louis...
Fred Williams (1927-1982) You Yangs c1962 (lot 6) was the most expensive painting to go under the hammer and Deutscher and Hackett’s timed online modern and contemporary art auction in Melbourne on February 15 – realising its upper catalogue estimate of $45,000 ($56,250 including buyer’s premium) – as 27 of the 36 works listed sold on the day.
Surprisingly, famous street artist Banksy’s work Gangsta Rat 2004 (lot 25) did not achieve the $40,000-$60,...
A rare 1813 holey dollar (lot 60) met all expectations when it sold for $145,000 at Melbourne-based Leski Auctions coins, banknotes and stamps auction on February 16.
Struck on a Spanish Charles III 1806 eight reales from Mexico City the sale price was at the higher end of the catalogue estimate.
Introduced by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1813 and Australia’s first coins, holey dollars were used in New South Wales during the early days of penal settlement....
When auction buyers know a painting’s provenance, it invariably adds to its sale value.
And so it proved for popular Sydney collectors Colin and Elizabeth Laverty’s collection of Aboriginal and contemporary art, sold by Deutscher and Hackett on December 13 in Melbourne, which at $421,455 including buyers’ premiums was a 152 per cent by value and 98 per cent by volume return for the 47 paintings and sculptures involved.
Duetscher and Hackett this year had...
Paintings by Hermannsburg School Aboriginal artist Albert Namatjira (1902-1959) occupied the first two spots in South Australian-based Elder Fine Art’s December 4 art auction that also featured many other well-known Australian painters.
Finke River Gums, Central Australia (lot 26) was knocked down for $57,500 ($67,620 including buyer’s premium) while Ghost Gums, Jay Creek – MacDonnell Ranges (lot 27) sold for $57,624.
Another of his works...
Who would have thought a bunch of sawn wooden soft drink crate pieces could be worth $1 million?
Probably no one, except in the hands of masterly Australian artist Rosalie Gascoigne (1917-1999) they take on another life – and, once the bidding started at Deutscher and Hackett’s Melbourne December 1 auction, there was no stopping the price escalation.
The work, entitled Beaten Track, 1992 (lot 6), was finally knocked down to a determined phone bidder...
Renowned Royal Worcester artists Charles Baldwyn, Harry Davis and John and Harry Stinton featured prominently in Melbourne-based Gibson’s Auctions November Spring Auction Series when several of their creations filled the top 10 sale spots.
One of Baldwyn’s 1899 ewers (lot 222) brought the highest price of $9500 against a catalogue estimate of $4000-$6000 – and an 1892 covered urn vase (lot 220) $5500 – while Davis’s 1906 scenic vase (lot 230) sold for $6600, closely...
Always surrounded by mystery, an enthusiastic buyer paid $40,120 (including buyer’s premium) against a $25,000 catalogue estimate for a 1930 penny in very fine condition (lot 3142) at Melbourne-based Abacus Auctions three-day November Stamps, Postal History and Postcards, Coins and Banknotes, Sporting Memorabilia and Collectables sale.
Pennies from that year were not officially struck at the Melbourne Mint – possibly because it coincided with the start of the Great...
If iconic Australian businesswoman Millie Phillips were still alive, she no doubt would not have been surprised that two of the paintings in her auction collection would achieve world auction records for the artists involved.
And so it proved on November 23 at Menzies Sydney sale when Lloyd Rees’s Sydney – The Source 1973 (lot 17) and Yosl Bergner’s The Last Supper 1982 sold respectively for $564,545 and $79,773 including buyers’ premiums – as most...
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