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AFRGA1 A014 AUSTRALIAN & INTERNATIONAL FINE ART & SCULPTURE FINAL ENTRIES INVITED MENZIES IS SEEKING FINAL ENTRIES FOR ITS MID-YEAR AUCTION To arrange a complimentary appraisal of your collection or individual artwork, contact our art specialists. VIC 03 9832 8700 | NSW 02 8344 5404 CONSIGNMENT OR GUARANTEE < RECENTLY CONSIGNED: HOWARD ARKLEY Deluxe Setting 1992 | ESTIMATE: $800,000 – $1,200,000 © The Estate of Howard Arkley. Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art menziesartbrands.com THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN leonardjoel.com.au FEATURING ROYAL DOULTON, ROYAL WORCESTOR, WEDGWOOD, MOORCROFT, MARTIN BROTHERS & BERNARD MOORE VIEWING 3-6 MAY, 10AM-4PM AUCTION 7 MAY, 2PM SYDNEY The Bond, 36-40 Queen Street, Woollahra NSW 2025 G11041892AA_010519 FINE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION 5 May commencing at 12 noon MODERN & ANTIQUE JEWELLERY 6 May commencing at 6 pm CATALOGUES ONLINE www.philipsauctions.com.au AFR Thursday 2 May 2019 The Australian Financial Review | www.afr.com 14 Saleroom A nonymous bookie offloads ceramic collection Decorative arts More than 400 works collected over 50 years. Peter Fish From left, a Wedgwood Dragon Lustre meiping vase; a Wedgwood Sunset Fairyland Lustre vase; a Doulton Lambeth jug; and a Royal Doulton cream glaze seated figure of Salome. Collections of ceramics are rarely as dazzling and diverse as that of a retired bookmaker from Newcastle in NSW. The collection goes under the hammer on Tuesday at Leonard Joel in Sydney’s Woollahra. The 439 lots on offer range from Royal Doulton flambe ´ vessels and fig- ures, with their unctuous iridescent red glazes, to the Doulton Lambeth mouse figures sculpted by George Tinworth. There are even rare and finely decor- ated 18th and 19th century scent bottles in Wedgwood’s trademark jasperware – launched in the 1770s and still made today – where the design stands out in white from the traditional “biscuit” blue or brown body. Hamish Clark of Joel’s Sydney office, who catalogued the bookie’s collection, says the anonymous owner began col- lecting after his wife made a few ceramic purchases. After that, he bought extensively more than 50 years, turning from one specialist ceramic area to another, always insisting on pieces in excellent condition. “He wasn’t passionate about aesthet- ics, but he wouldn’t buy damaged pieces,” Clark says. Many of his purchases were from the Whitley Collection in Florida, and from Sydney dealer and authority Alan Landis. Clark says some pieces have already attracted international interest, with one potential buyer flying out from England to view the sale. Among the major attractions is a rare Doulton cream-glazed seated fig- ure of Salome, circa 1925, which Clark believes will attract at least $10,000 to $15,000. Among the other pricier pieces in a sale where most wares carry estimates of a relatively modest $1000 or less are pieces designed by one of Doulton’s pre-eminent figures, Charles Noke (1858 to 1941) who is regarded as a great innovator and a key figure in the firm’s success. After spending his early years at Royal Worcester, Noke joined Doulton in 1889. Many of his earlier pieces fea- ture elephants and jester jugs, several of which are included in the sale. His figures, often sizeable, are widely asso- ciated with the revival of the potteries after the 1890s. He is credited with the introduction of Doulton’s Flambe ´ wares, first introduced in 1904, and fol- lowed by the further refined Sung glaze. Rarities include a number of Noke “Chinese jade” porcelains, so called because of their subtle green and white decoration. These figures mostly date from the 1880s and are scarce because they were hard to produce and made in limited quantities. Among them is a rare Mother with Child group, the pair depicted seated in front of a fire, purchased from the Whitley Collection. A mere 12cm wide, it is estimated at $3000 to $5000. Among Noke’s figures is the impos- ing and imperious The Moor, 46cm high, introduced in 1938. This piece, described as an early example with superb colouring, is estimated at $1000 to $1500. George Tinworth, who worked for Doulton from 1867 for more than 40 years, was born in great poverty but achieved considerable fame at Doulton’s Lambeth potteries, many of his large works being commissions for churches. Among the modest-sized saltglaze wares he designed in the 1880s is a rare figure group from the Going to the Derby series, titled Lost and Serves them Right for Betting. It depicts Tinworth’s trademark mice in a carriage, pulled by a rat with a frog on its back. Some 15cm long it is estimated at $8000 to $12,000. Other Tinworth wares include a group of stoneware Boy Musicians, 12cm high, of which the potter made a number between 1989 and 1910. The catalogue notes that 100 of such figures, with white faces, were made in 1910 and 1911, a number of which came to Australia. Modestly priced items include a large Doulton Lambeth jug circa 1900 in the form of a bird of prey estimated at $300 to $500. Among the eye-catching Wedgwood is a large meiping-shaped covered vase, the blue ground with mother of pearl lustre, painted with sinuous dragons and cloudbands. Dating from 1925, it is 51cm high and estimated at $3000 to $5000. Also from Wedgwood is a Sunset Fairyland Lustre vase with Imps on a Bridge design and raised beads around foot and inside rim. Dating from circa 1925, it is 25cm high and is estimated at $1500 to $2500. Jasperware scent bottles dating from the 18th century and later are estimated at up to $1200 each. Also well represen- ted are wares as diverse as vases by the Stinton brothers, Bernard Moore, the Martin Brothers, William and Walter Moorcroft and Hannah Barlow. The owner spent serious money on various loving and commemorative cups – one of which purportedly cost $18,000, as well as an oddball array of modern facsimile books and Penfold’s Grange Hermitage wines that are also included in the sale. prfi[email protected] Dreaming Alice finds a buyer Peter Fish A bargain hunter has managed to secure Charles Black- man’s Dreaming Alice after it was unsold at the big art auctions last month in Sydney. Such deals are almost inevitably signed off at a negoti- ated price below the original catalogue estimates. The pre-sale estimate on the Blackman was $1 million to $1.2 million. Sotheby’s chairman Geoffrey Smith confirmed a buyer had been found almost a week after the work had gone unsold at auction. It had been been offered for open sale to all comers on the auctioneer’s website. In such circumstances the sale price is not disclosed and the picture goes into the art auction records as unsold. Dreaming Alice, a pensive view of Alice in Wonderland asleep at a table bearing flowers and a teapot, is part of a much acclaimed series painted by Blackman in 1956. The artist was still working until near his death in August last year. Another work from the same period, Alice on the Table, brought $1.65 million at rival auction house Deutscher and Hackett. This work, which had been in a UK collection, last changed hands for $151,000 some 23 years ago. Deutscher and Hackett’s Blackman was not its only big scorer. Ian Fairweather’s Barbecue, depicting a row of fig- ures in almost abstract form, fetched $1.71 million, a record for the artist, its value enhanced by its provenance to Fairweather’s friend, artist Len French, from whose estate it had been consigned. Meanwhile William Dobell’s Woman in Restaurant from 1934 proved a sensation at Sotheby’s, selling for $939,400, against an estimate of just $80,000 to $120,000. The diminutive portrait of a dowdy dowager seated, cigarette in hand – for all the world like a smartened up Vera from the ABC TV series – had been in the collection of Sydney developer Dick Dusseldorp and his wife Joanna for almost 60 years. Originally owned by cosmetics king Norman Schureck, it was sold in 1962 for the then sensa- tional price of 4500 guineas at the landmark Schureck sale in Sydney. It will almost certainly go to an institution or public gallery. Sotheby’s raised a total of $8.63 million including pre- mium and Deutscher $9 million.
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AFRGA1 A014
AUSTRALIAN & INTERNATIONAL FINE ART & SCULPTURE
FINAL ENTRIES INVITEDMENZIES IS SEEKING FINAL ENTRIES FOR ITS MID-YEAR AUCTION
To arrange a complimentary appraisal of your collection or individual artwork, contact our art specialists.
VIC 03 9832 8700 | NSW 02 8344 5404
CONSIGNMENT OR GUARANTEE
< RECENTLY CONSIGNED: HOWARD ARKLEY Deluxe Setting 1992 | ESTIMATE: $800,000 – $1,200,000
© The Estate of Howard Arkley. Licensed by Kalli Rolfe Contemporary Art
menziesartbrands.com
THE PROPERTY OF A
GENTLEMAN
leonardjoel.com.au
FEATURING ROYAL DOULTON, ROYAL WORCESTOR, WEDGWOOD, MOORCROFT,
MARTIN BROTHERS & BERNARD MOORE
VIEWING 3-6 MAY, 10AM-4PM
AUCTION 7 MAY, 2PM SYDNEY
The Bond, 36-40 Queen Street,
Woollahra NSW 2025
G11041892A
A_010519
FINE & DECORATIVE ARTS AUCTION5 May commencing at 12 noon
MODERN & ANTIQUE JEWELLERY6 May commencing at 6 pm
CATALOGUES ONLINEwww.philipsauctions.com.au
AFRThursday 2 May 2019The Australian Financial Review | www.afr.com
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Decorative arts Morethan 400 workscollected over 50 years.
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Peter Fish
From left, a Wedgwood Dragon Lustre meiping vase; a Wedgwood Sunset Fairyland Lustre vase; a Doulton Lambeth jug; anda Royal Doulton cream glaze seated figure of Salome.
Collections of ceramics are rarely asdazzling and diverse as that of a retiredbookmaker from Newcastle in NSW.The collection goes under the hammeron Tuesday at Leonard Joel in Sydney’sWoollahra.
The 439 lots on offer range fromRoyal Doulton flambe vessels and fig-ures, with their unctuous iridescent redglazes, to the Doulton Lambeth mousefigures sculpted by George Tinworth.There are even rare and finely decor-ated 18th and 19th century scent bottlesin Wedgwood’s trademark jasperware– launched in the 1770s and still madetoday – where the design stands out inwhite from the traditional “biscuit”blue or brown body.
Hamish Clark of Joel’s Sydney office,who catalogued the bookie’s collection,says the anonymous owner began col-lecting after his wife made a fewceramic purchases.
After that, he bought extensivelymore than 50 years, turning from onespecialist ceramic area to another,always insisting on pieces in excellentcondition.
“He wasn’t passionate about aesthet-ics, but he wouldn’t buy damagedpieces,” Clark says.
Many of his purchases were from theWhitley Collection in Florida, and from
Sydney dealer and authority AlanLandis.
Clark says some pieces have alreadyattracted international interest, withone potential buyer flying out fromEngland to view the sale.
Among the major attractions is arare Doulton cream-glazed seated fig-ure of Salome, circa 1925, which Clarkbelieves will attract at least $10,000 to$15,000.
Among the other pricier pieces in asale where most wares carry estimatesof a relatively modest $1000 or less arepieces designed by one of Doulton’spre-eminent figures, Charles Noke(1858 to 1941) who is regarded as a greatinnovator and a key figure in the firm’ssuccess.
After spending his early years atRoyal Worcester, Noke joined Doultonin 1889. Many of his earlier pieces fea-ture elephants and jester jugs, severalof which are included in the sale. Hisfigures, often sizeable, are widely asso-ciated with the revival of the potteriesafter the 1890s. He is credited with theintroduction of Doulton’s Flambewares, first introduced in 1904, and fol-lowed by the further refined Sungglaze.
Rarities include a number of Noke“Chinese jade” porcelains, so calledbecause of their subtle green and whitedecoration. These figures mostly datefrom the 1880s and are scarce becausethey were hard to produce and made inlimited quantities.
Among them is a rare Mother withChild group, the pair depicted seated infront of a fire, purchased from theWhitley Collection. A mere 12cm wide,it is estimated at $3000 to $5000.
Among Noke’s figures is the impos-ing and imperious The Moor, 46cmhigh, introduced in 1938. This piece,described as an early example withsuperb colouring, is estimated at $1000to $1500.
George Tinworth, who worked forDoulton from 1867 for more than 40years, was born in great poverty butachieved considerable fame atDoulton’s Lambeth potteries, many ofhis large works being commissions forchurches. Among the modest-sizedsaltglaze wares he designed in the1880s is a rare figure group from theGoing to the Derby series, titled Lostand Serves them Right for Betting. Itdepicts Tinworth’s trademark mice in acarriage, pulled by a rat with a frog onits back. Some 15cm long it is estimated
at $8000 to $12,000. Other Tinworthwares include a group of stonewareBoy Musicians, 12cm high, of which thepotter made a number between 1989and 1910. The catalogue notes that 100of such figures, with white faces, weremade in 1910 and 1911, a number ofwhich came to Australia.
Modestly priced items include alarge Doulton Lambeth jug circa 1900in the form of a bird of prey estimatedat $300 to $500.
Among the eye-catching Wedgwoodis a large meiping-shaped covered vase,the blue ground with mother of pearllustre, painted with sinuous dragonsand cloudbands. Dating from 1925, it is51cm high and estimated at $3000 to$5000.
Also from Wedgwood is a Sunset
Fairyland Lustre vase with Imps on aBridge design and raised beads aroundfoot and inside rim. Dating from circa1925, it is 25cm high and is estimated at$1500 to $2500.
Jasperware scent bottles dating fromthe 18th century and later are estimatedat up to $1200 each. Also well represen-ted are wares as diverse as vases by theStinton brothers, Bernard Moore, theMartin Brothers, William and WalterMoorcroft and Hannah Barlow.
The owner spent serious money onvarious loving and commemorativecups – one of which purportedly cost$18,000, as well as an oddball array ofmodern facsimile books and Penfold’sGrange Hermitage wines that are alsoincluded in the sale.
Dreaming Alicefinds a buyer
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Peter Fish
A bargain hunter has managed to secure Charles Black-man’s Dreaming Alice after it was unsold at the big artauctions last month in Sydney.
Such deals are almost inevitably signed off at a negoti-ated price below the original catalogue estimates. Thepre-sale estimate on the Blackman was $1 million to $1.2million.
Sotheby’s chairman Geoffrey Smith confirmed a buyerhad been found almost a week after the work had goneunsold at auction. It had been been offered for open saleto all comers on the auctioneer’s website.
In such circumstances the sale price is not disclosedand the picture goes into the art auction records asunsold.
Dreaming Alice, a pensive view of Alice in Wonderlandasleep at a table bearing flowers and a teapot, is part of amuch acclaimed series painted by Blackman in 1956. Theartist was still working until near his death in August lastyear.
Another work from the same period, Alice on the Table,brought $1.65 million at rival auction house Deutscherand Hackett.
This work, which had been in a UK collection, lastchanged hands for $151,000 some 23 years ago.
Deutscher and Hackett’s Blackman was not its only bigscorer. Ian Fairweather’s Barbecue, depicting a row of fig-ures in almost abstract form, fetched $1.71 million, arecord for the artist, its value enhanced by its provenanceto Fairweather’s friend, artist Len French, from whoseestate it had been consigned.
Meanwhile William Dobell’s Woman in Restaurantfrom 1934 proved a sensation at Sotheby’s, selling for$939,400, against an estimate of just $80,000 to $120,000.
The diminutive portrait of a dowdy dowager seated,cigarette in hand – for all the world like a smartened upVera from the ABC TV series – had been in the collectionof Sydney developer Dick Dusseldorp and his wife Joannafor almost 60 years. Originally owned by cosmetics kingNorman Schureck, it was sold in 1962 for the then sensa-tional price of 4500 guineas at the landmark Schurecksale in Sydney. It will almost certainly go to an institutionor public gallery.
Sotheby’s raised a total of $8.63 million including pre-mium and Deutscher $9 million.
