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Gold! July 4th is a treasure-trove…
Our July 4th sale is overflowing with some very exciting gold items. Gold has a way of accumulating quietly over generations — passed down, tucked away, eventually forgotten in the back of a drawer or the bottom of a jewellery box. Auction 15o draws together the results of that quiet accumulation: nearly a hundred lots…
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Panda Diplomacy and the QANTAS Connection: an Important Chinese Painting by Zhang Zhenshi
Our next auction has a remarkable piece of history documenting the Australian- China relationship in its initial stages, the first thawing of the ‘Cold-War’ that followed WWII. Coming in as a complete unknown ‘Chinese Painting’, the work has many visual prompts to interpret, including red seals, the artist’s signature, and a beautiful calligraphic title: “Pure…
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Pop Culture, 1905 style: fab females in the April Sale
Pop Culture, 1905 Style — Fab Females of the Edwardian Stage Before Instagram, before cinema’s golden age, before television — there was the cabinet portrait photograph. Edwardian theatre stars were the celebrities of their age: photographed, sold as postcards and cabinet cards, collected and displayed in drawing rooms across the English-speaking world. These signed portraits…