SH208 The Robert Hutchinson Collection of Australiana
auction
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162 Queen Street, Woollahra NSWAustralian Cedar Tabletop Book Rack
with pierced handles to sides
- EStimate $600 - $800
- sold $798 Incl BP
Australian Cedar Gladstone Bag
c. 1930with leather handle and brass hinges
- Measurements:
- height 19 cm width 43 cm depth 18.5 cm
- EStimate $400 - $600
Hinks & Sons
with bayonet duplex burners, clear and blue glass fonts, fluted gilt-metal columns (2)
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $1,105 Incl BP
Various Australian Specimen Wood Serving Trays
some with chrome or bakelite handles, some inlaid with Australian animals and native flowers (8)
- EStimate $80 - $120
- sold $491 Incl BP
Georgian Mahogany Sewing Box
c. 1830with pin cushion, two side drawers and clamp
- Measurements:
- approx. height 26 cm width 17 cm depth 12.5 cm
- EStimate $400 - $600
Two Australian Toleware Hat Boxes
one inscribed ‘DK WILKINS 63 TAMWORTH NSW AUS’ (2)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $515 Incl BP
Pair of Australian Figural Cast Iron Andirons
cast with emus and kangaroos (2)
- EStimate $600 - $800
- sold $920 Incl BP
Australian Carved Wooden Frame
hand carved with native birds, roses, kangaroo and dated 1925
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $7,364 Incl BP
Australian Tramp Art Wooden Frames
comprising one rectangular double picture frame and one triple picture frame (2)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $245 Incl BP
Australian Tramp Art Cedar Box
with mirrored top and velvet interior, presentation plaque ‘Presented by Red Cross Society to Miss Lilian Brewer’ (A/F)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $123 Incl BP
Australian Pine Red Cross Suggestions Box
the lid carved with a red cross
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $356 Incl BP
Four Australian Specimen Wood Boxes
one inlaid with Australian coat-of-arms, one hand painted with shells, together with two others (4)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $798 Incl BP
Gerbing & Stephan
of oblong form with two handles, decorated with stylised flowers, marked, together with a print illustrating this vase with flowers, titled Sydney Wild Flowers (2)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $920 Incl BP
Eliza Thurston (1807-1873)
watercolour and gouache on paper
- EStimate $3,000 - $5,000
- sold $7,977 Incl BP
Attributed Conrad Martens (1801-1878)
Marble Rockpencil on paper, titled l.l.c. ‘Marble Rock July 31/16’
- Measurements:
- 17 x 27 cm
- EStimate $1,200 - $1,800
Australian School (20th Century)
pencil on paper, some titled below image (6)
- EStimate $800 - $1,200
- sold $736 Incl BP
Australian School (19th Century)
watercolour on paper, inscribed ‘WK’, ‘Pennentian Parrot, This Species is Often Found about Port Jackson N.S.Wales’
- EStimate $600 - $800
- sold $736 Incl BP
Anne Bottrell (19th Century)
hand painted on terracotta plaque, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘Anne Bottrell 1884’, with ‘Eneret P-Ipson Kjobenhavn, 431’ embossed mark verso, A/F
- EStimate $600 - $800
- sold $1,105 Incl BP
Frances Blower Gibbes (Scottish/ Australia 1815-1904)
watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.r.c. ‘F.B. Gibbes 1876’
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $368 Incl BP
Australian School (19th Century)
oil on board, inscribed verso in texta ‘P. Lee, c. 1890, Camp in the Blue Mountains’, in carved frame
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $1,105 Incl BP
Catherine Devine (Australian, Scottish, working 1880-1900s)
watercolour on paper, signed and dated l.l.c. ‘Catherine Devine Nov 1887’
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $515 Incl BP
J. Smith (20th Century)
watercolour on paper, signed l.r.c. ‘J. Smith’
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $1,841 Incl BP
Australian School (19th/ 20th Century)
watercolour on paper, depicting two Koalas pointing at ‘Ferdanez Fish’, signed l.r.c. and dated ’91
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $5,400 Incl BP
P. Arnold (20th Century)
oil on board, signed and titled l.l.c. ‘Three Sisters, P. Arnold’ in ornate gilt frame
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $491 Incl BP
Australian School (19th Century)
gouache on card, titled l.c. ‘Sydney Harbour’
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $1,718 Incl BP
Australian School (19th/20th Century)
handpainted on gumleaf
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $430 Incl BP
Australian School (19th Century)
watercolour on paper, indistinctly signed l.l.c.
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $245 Incl BP
Charles Rodius (1802-1960)
Profile Sketch of a Gentleman, in a Black Jacket, 1833charcoal and conte, signed l.l.c. ‘Ch Rodius 1833’
- Measurements:
- 13 x 11.5 cm
- EStimate $1,200 - $1,800
Luin Hing (19th/ Early 20th Century)
she holds black gloves in her lap and is seated next to a basket of flowers, oil on canvas, stamped to canvas verso ‘Luin Hing, Portrait Painter, 197 George Street Sydney’
- EStimate $700 - $900
- sold $675 Incl BP
19th / 20th Century School
Portrait of a Mature Gentleman, sporting a large grey moustache and beard and thin metal rimmed glassesoil on paper/photograph on canvas, together with Portrait of a Gentleman, with mutton-chop/burnside facial hair, sitting in a crimson upholstered chair, oil on paper/photograph on canvas, together with Portrait of a Bearded Man, oil on paper on canvas (3)
- Measurements:
- 54 x 39 cm; 54 x 38 cm; 54 x 44 cm
- EStimate $600 - $800
British School (19th Century)
oil on canvas
- EStimate $600 - $800
- sold $1,105 Incl BP
19th/20th Century School
oil on board, in an Anthony Hordern frame,with plaque Anthony Hordern to verso
- EStimate $500 - $800
- sold $1,595 Incl BP
19th Century School
oil on canvas laid on board
- EStimate $500 - $800
- sold $614 Incl BP
Grace Seccombe (1880 -1956)
perched on a tree stump, hand finished with coloured glaze and underglaze painting on earthenware, artist’s signature to base
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $2,700 Incl BP
Attributed to Grace Seccombe (1880 -1956)
earthenware with underglazed and coloured glazes, one splayed leg (A/F)
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $3,682 Incl BP
John Castle Harris (1893-1967)
glazed earthenware, with applied flannel flowers and incised leaf decoration, artist’s signature to base ‘Castle Harris’
- EStimate $700 - $900
- sold $675 Incl BP
Lewis J. Harvey
hand-built, blue flambe glazed with sgraffito decoration, raised on four ball feet
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $736 Incl BP
Remued
earthenware glazed in green, applied with gum leaves and gum nuts, signed to base ‘Remued’, two minor hairline cracks
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $430 Incl BP
Australian Pottery Figural Group
glazed earthenware, depicting two koalas on a tree stump
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $736 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
slip cast earthenware hand painted with Australian country scene, signed ‘ULRICH’ with molded factory mark to underside
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $147 Incl BP
Collection of Australian Pottery Pieces
comprising two glazed earthenware cream jugs, a moneybox, an ashtray, a dish and three figural napkin rings (8)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $552 Incl BP
Attributed to Grace Seccombe (1880 -1956)
glazed earthenware vase surmounted by a koala, incised to side Taronga Zoo, together with a koala on a tree stump (2)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $736 Incl BP
Eric Bryce Carter (b. 1911)
earthenware glazed in green fading to yellow, decorated with applied tree stumps, artist’s signatures to versos ‘E. Bryce Carter Sydney’
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $1,227 Incl BP
Fowler Pottery
glazed earthenware with underglazed painting of hunter and dogs, factory’s stamp to base
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $614 Incl BP
Collection of Wall Pockets
glazed earthenware, five slip cast, four hand-built, decorated in the form of gum leaves, some signed verso, various makers (9)
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $614 Incl BP
Alexander Murray (1884-1935)
press-moulded earthenware, depicting a koala near a tree stump with coloured glazes, artist’s signature to base
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $4,909 Incl BP
Eric or Emily Bryce Carter
earthenware glazed in green, applied flower heads, artist’s signatures to base ‘E. Bryce Carter Sydney’
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $491 Incl BP
Melrose Ware
earthenware with green mottled glaze, one decorated with moulded gumnuts and gum leaves, the other with koalas in trees, each stamped to underside ‘Melrose Ware Australian’ (2)
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $920 Incl BP
John Campbell
earthenware with green drip glaze, decorated with moulded birds amongst branches, on four feet, artist’s signature to base ‘ John Campbell Tas’
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $3,805 Incl BP
Four Bird Form Ceramic Jugs
comprising two graduated galahs and two kookaburras (4)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $982 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
the seated figure with faux malachite glaze, signed to base ‘Diana’
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $614 Incl BP
McHugh and John Campbell Pottery
decorated in shades of green, blue and brown glazes, comprising a rose bowl, two rectangular jardinieres, and eight vases (11)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $736 Incl BP
Pair of Salt Glaze Stoneware Umbrella Stands
with sgraffito bark and leaf designs, together with another salt glaze stoneware vase (3)
- EStimate $400 - $600
- sold $2,209 Incl BP
Attributed to Campbell and Sons, Brisbane
glazed in light brown, modelled as two spaniels (2)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $1,350 Incl BP
Collection of Australian Pottery Shoes
comprising Bendigo pottery and other examples, one (A/F) (10)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $184 Incl BP
Fowler Pottery
comprising one slip cast chocolate brown vase of baluster form, one slip cast twin-handled tan vase of amphora form, one slip cast vase of hexagonal trumpet form with mottled blue and brown glaze, one thrown brown ink pot; and one brown mug, all pieces retain factory marks or stamps (5)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $147 Incl BP
Collection of Australian and Continental Majolica Ware
comprising one green Lithgow plate depicting an oak branch stamped verso, one tricolour platter that reads ‘Give us this day our daily bread’ with a rim depicting wheat heads, one brown plate and a green platter pressed in basket pattern, along with five assorted plates depicting various leaves (9)
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $1,718 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
slip cast earthenware, of cylindrical shape with mustard yellow glaze, inscribed ‘Diana’ underside
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $123 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
slip cast earthenware with merino sheep figurines, in yellow gloss glaze and gold lustre accents, one ashtray in the shape of Australia, factory stamps underneath (3)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $614 Incl BP
Jedda Pottery
white slip cast earthenware depicting Australian First Nations designs, comprising one teapot, one creamer, six teacups and six saucers, together with a leaf-shaped serving dish and an oval wall plate, creamer stamped with factory mark underneath (16)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $245 Incl BP
Jedda Pottery
comprising five dishes decorated with Australian flora and fauna on glossy black backgrounds, one in the shape of a boomerang, together with one ashtray in the shape of Australia, and one wall plate depicting a beach scene (7)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $307 Incl BP
Bendigo Pottery
Slip cast ceramic with brown glaze, signed ‘Slater 89’ with Bendigo pottery stamp
- EStimate $80 - $120
- sold $491 Incl BP
Collection of Salt Glaze Pottery Pieces
including Bendigo, Lithgow and Fowler examples, comprising a teapot, a meat safe stand, three vases, hand shape vase, burner, a mug and a wine cup (9)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $307 Incl BP
Australian Salt Glaze Stoneware Vase
rectangular, decorated with budgies, together with a matching bookend (2)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $430 Incl BP
Collection of Flat-back Staffordshire Style Dogs
stoneware and earthenware, glazed and unglazed, each modelled as a spaniel (9)
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $2,086 Incl BP
Pair of Tall Salt Glaze Stoneware Vases
of cylindrical tree shape, with scalloped rim and floral decoration (2)
- EStimate $500 - $700
- sold $859 Incl BP
Hand Painted Ceramic Lamp
reticulated with design of a koala perched on a gum tree (A/F)
- Measurements:
- approx. height 37 cm
- EStimate $100 - $200
Diana Pottery
Two Faun Book Endsslip cast earthenware with gloss glazes, one black, one burgundy, signed ‘Diana AUSTRALIA’ underside, together with one slip cast brown and green mottled gloss glazed pitcher with maker’s mark underside (3)
- Measurements:
- approx. height 19.5 cm (figurines), 25 cm (pitcher)
- EStimate $100 - $200
Collection of Salt Glaze Animal Pottery
comprising a pair of bookends with press-mould decoration of dogs, an ash tray with a pair of terriers, a plate pressed with a peacock design, three various figurines of dogs and a figurine of an owl (A/F) (8)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $675 Incl BP
Disabled Soldiers’ Pottery
wheel-thrown and one slip cast red stoneware with brown and green flambe glazes, of various forms, all pieces stamped underneath (5)
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $4,418 Incl BP
‘Kangaroo and Tiger’ Mug
contemporary copy of an historic piece from 1793 owned by the Australian National Gallery, slipcast porcelain with pale yellow glaze and black transfer print decoration of a kangaroo and a tiger, derived from wood engravings by Thomas Bewick, transfer stamp underneath
- EStimate $50 - $100
- sold $49 Incl BP
Toby Jug Teapot
salt-glazed stoneware Toby-form teapot with a top hat lid, together with a Fowler brown gloss glazed musical Toby jug of similar form (2)
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $196 Incl BP
McHugh Pottery
blue and yellow flambe glaze, electrified, signed underside ‘H McHugh Tasmania’
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $221 Incl BP
Attributed to Pates Pottery
together with another koala on tree stump and a kangaroo (5)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $368 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
slip cast earthenware with mechanisms, one mug without mechanisms and chips to base (A/F) (3)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $442 Incl BP
Diana Pottery
comprising three hand painted slip cast earthenware decanters with stoppers, six shot glasses, and nine beer mugs depicting sporting scenes of cricket, tennis, rugby, lawn bowls, sailing and horse-riding (18)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $393 Incl BP
Two Staffordshire Flat-Back Figurines of Highwaymen
modeled as the famous 18th century highwaymen Dick Turpin and Tom King (2)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $368 Incl BP
Collection of Porcelain Plates
comprising one Royal Doulton plate for the Civil Service Stores, a commemorative plate for the marriage of George VI and Elizabeth, a commemorative plate for the governors of NSW 1788-1938, and two others, one (A/F) (5)
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $491 Incl BP
Doulton Burslem
brown transfer printed porcelain of Wattle pattern, comprising three plates, one gravy boat, one vegetable tureen, with a Rose & Waratah pattern serving dish, together with a Bakewell Brothers gravy boat, a soap dish, an unmarked vegetable tureen, a blue transfer printed Stoke on Trent chamberpot, and a Doulton Burslem blue transfer Wattle pattern printed […]
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $172 Incl BP
Adrian Feint for Johnson Brothers
comprising seven dinner plates, six coffee cups with saucers and two small plates, all decorated around the rims with flannel flowers, leaves, boomerangs and separated by lattices, in muted tones of olive, mustard, pink and iron red, some plates signed and with factory stamps (21)
- EStimate $150 - $250
- sold $245 Incl BP
Collection of Leedsware Classical Creamware
comprising a pair of reticulated vases, a comport, a mug and two plates, retain factory impressed and printed marks (6)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $491 Incl BP
Royal Doulton
Assorted Collection of 'Wattle' Pattern Pieces, c. 1930comprising one teacup with saucer, six dessert bowls, one bread plate, one bowl and one dinner plate, together with two Royal Doulton teacups and saucers decorated with hand painted golden wattle sprays, signed underhand ‘GO MacCormack’ (15)
- Measurements:
- approx. width 25 cm (dinner plate)
- EStimate $200 - $300
Royal Doulton
designed by Lulu Shorter, with additional saucer, underplate and bread plate, the identical pattern is in the permanent collection of the Powerhouse Museum (4)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $1,105 Incl BP
Bodley
hand painted with wild flowers, comprising water jug, sugar bowl, cream jug, two graduated platters, two serving plates, eight dessert plates, five tea cups and saucers, three coffee cups and saucers, retain factory impressed and painted marks (A/F) (31)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $344 Incl BP
Doulton Burslem and Bakewell Brothers
green transfer printed porcelain of Wattle pattern, comprising a soup tureen, two vegetable tureens, five platters, two gravy boats, one underplate, five soup bowls, eleven dinner plates, twelve small plates, one bowl and one ladle, together with a small plate and twin-handled bowl in green transfer printed porcelain of Rose & Waratah pattern, all pieces […]
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $491 Incl BP
Assorted Collection of Handpainted Porcelain
depicting Australian flora, various artists with some signatures to bases, comprising three teacups with matching saucers, one moustache cup with matching saucer, eight plates, two platters, one ewer and one jug (21)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $430 Incl BP
Gardener’s and Amateurs Horticultural Society Commemorative Porcelain Plate
with sgraffito and painted grape vines around edge with transfer-print label, stamped verso ‘Mann, Venables & Co Henley’, some staining, together with two transfer-print plates by Brownfield & Son, retaining diamond registration mark June 1875, with a set of four Wedgewood black transfer-ware plates of ‘Historical Australia’ (7)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $221 Incl BP
Pink Commemorative Part Tea Service
slip cast porcelain with pink and white glazes and gold luster accents, depicting scenes from Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart, comprising, two jugs, one jar, eleven teacups, one creamer, one small vase and eleven plates (27)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $430 Incl BP
Pink Commemorative Part Tea Service
slip cast porcelain with pink and white glazes and gold luster accents, depicting scenes of Sydney, comprising, three teacups, seven coffee cups, nine plates, one creamer, one jug and four teapots (25)
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $614 Incl BP
Glazed Terracotta Footed Vase
thrown and press-molded, cream-glazed terracotta
- EStimate $100 - $200
- sold $221 Incl BP
Federal Flint Glass and Bottle Works Company
hand blown glass, finial (A/F), together with a glass water jug and a pair of glass candlesticks, one (A/F) (4)
- EStimate $300 - $500
- sold $491 Incl BP
Collection of Australian Glass Decanters and Bottles
each etched with a kookaburra perched on a branch, comprising a decanter, two bottles and a jar (4)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $614 Incl BP
Collection of Australian Etched Glass
Late 19th Centurycomprising one decanter and five glasses decorated with sprays of ferns, one decanter and matching shot glass decorated with sprays of flannel flowers, one goblet, and one glass etched with personal messages (10)
- Measurements:
- approx. height 28.5 cm (decanter)
- EStimate $200 - $300
Collection of Pressed Glass Pieces
comprising two water pitchers, one patterned with waratahs, one cake stand; one butter dish in the shape of Australia; two mugs; and one Harbour Bridge dish (7)
- EStimate $200 - $300
- sold $368 Incl BP
Italian Glass Drinking Set
decorated with murrine millefiori, comprising one jug, eight glasses and two similarly decorated vases, one glass with visible crack (11)
- EStimate $300 - $300
- sold $736 Incl BP