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Summer Season Sydney | 20 - 21 November 2019 Summer Season Important Australian Art | Australia Jewels | Asian Art Sydney | 20 - 21 November 2019 VIEWING AUCTIONS IMPORTANT INFORMATION PHYSICAL CONDITION Melbourne 36 – 40 Queen Street The United States Government OF LOTS IN THIS AUCTION 1130 High St Woollahra NSW 2025 has banned the import of ivory PLEASE NOTE THAT THERE Armadale VIC 3143 into the USA. Lots containing IS NO REFERENCE IN THIS Australia Jewels ivory are indicated by the symbol CATALOGUE TO THE PHYSICAL Friday 8 November, Wednesday 20 November at 6pm Ф printed beside the lot number CONDITION OF ANY LOT. 10am - 4pm Sale number: 26003 in this catalogue. INTENDING BIDDERS MUST Saturday 9 November, SATISFY THEMSELVES AS 10am - 4pm Asian Art ENQUIRIES TO THE CONDITION OF ANY Sunday 10 November, Thursday 21 November at 2pm Merryn Schriever - Director LOT AS SPECIFIED IN CLAUSE 10am - 4pm Sale number: 25469 Australian and International Art 14 OF THE NOTICE TO Specialist BIDDERS CONTAINED AT THE Sydney Important Australia Art +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 END OF THIS CATALOGUE. Important Australian Art Thursday 21 November at 6pm [email protected] 36 - 40 Queen Street Sale number: 25470 As a courtesy to intending Woollahra NSW 2025 Alex Clark bidders, Bonhams will provide a IILLUSTRATIONS Australian and International Art written indication of the physical Australia Jewels Front cover: Lot 31 Specialist condition of lots in this sale if a 36 – 40 Queen Street Inside front: Lot 469 (detail) +61 (0) 3 8640 4088 request is received up to 24 Woollahra NSW 2025 Back cover: Lot 145 [email protected] hours before the auction starts. This written indication is issued Francesca Cavazzini subject to Clause 3 of the Notice Asian Art CATALOGUE 97 - 99 Queen Street $30.00 Aboriginal and International Art to Bidders. Woollahra NSW 2025 Art Specialist +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 BIDS REGISTRATION Friday 15 November, Online bidding will be available francesca.cavazzini@bonhams. IMPORTANT NOTICE 10am - 4pm for the auction. For further com Please note that all customers, Saturday 16 November, information please visit: irrespective of any previous 10am - 4pm www.bonhams.com Fiona Frith activity with Bonhams, are Sunday 17 November, Jewellery Specialist required to complete the Bidder 10am - 4pm All bidders are advised to +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 Registration Form in advance of Monday 18 November, read the important information [email protected] the sale. The form can be found 10am - 4pm on the following pages relating at the back of every catalogue Tuesday 19 November, to bidding, payment, collection, Yvett Klein and on our website at www. 10am - 4pm and storage of any purchases. Asian Art Specialist bonhams.com and should be +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 returned by email or post to the [email protected] specialist department or to the bids department at CLIENT SERVICES [email protected] Penny Pfahl +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 To bid live online and / or leave [email protected] internet bids please go to www.bonhams.com/ Kate Floro auctions/25470 and click on the +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 Register to bid link at the top left [email protected] of the page. PRESS ENQUIRIES Claire Martin +61 (0) 414 437 588 [email protected] Bonhams 1793 Limited 97-99 Queen Street Woollahra NSW 2025 +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 +61 (0) 2 9475 4110 fax Sale Information BIDS Lots will be released upon BPAY - Payments can be made BUYER’S PREMIUM +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 production of the collection by BPAY. Please contact your A Buyer’s Premium of 22% +61 (0) 3 8640 4088 form which will be provided participating bank, creditunion or plus GST will be added to the +61 (0) 2 9475 4110 fax upon receipt of payment. building society to make payment Hammer Price on all lots. [email protected] Please present this form and directly from your cheque or photographic ID at the time savings account. Enter the Biller EXPORT/TRADE To bid via the internet please visit of collection. If a third party is Code 17723 and BPAYreference RESTRICTIONS www.bonhams.com collecting on behalf of the client, number as detailed on your It is your sole responsibility the client must provide invoice. to comply with all export and PAYMENTS Bonhams with written authority import regulations relating to your Buyers prior to collection. The third party Bonhams accepts payment via purchases and also to obtain any +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 must present photographic ID EFTPOS, Debit card, MasterCard, relevant export and/or import +61 (0) 3 8640 4088 when collecting. Visa and non-Australian bank licence(s). +61 (0) 2 9475 4110 fax issued Debit cards. We do not PAYMENT accept Amex. The refusal of any import or Sellers Payment is due by 4:30pm on export or CITES license(s), any Payment of sale proceeds Monday 25 November 2019. Cash - We will accept cash delay in obtaining such license(s), +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 payment in Australian Dollars up or any limitation on your ability to +61 (0) 3 8640 4088 To comply with legislation, to a maximum amount of $8000 export a Lot shall not permit the +61 (0) 2 9475 4110 fax Bonhams cannot accept payment for lots purchased by you in this rescission of any sale nor allow from an account that does not sale. any delay in making full SHIPPING match the name of the party payment for the Lot. For information and estimates invoiced. Cheques – Cheques should be on domestic and international made payable to: Bonhams 1793 CITES REGULATIONS shipping as well as export Bank Transfer - Payment can be Ltd. Please be aware that all Lots licenses please contact our made by bank transfer. Please marked with symbol Y are Sydney office: ensure that you either include the Personal cheques, bank cheques subject to CITES when exporting sale and lot number, your name and building society cheques these items outside Australia. +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 or customer number in the drawn on an Australian branch of Information about these [email protected] reference field. a bank or building society must regulations may be found at be cleared prior to the collection www.environment.gov.au/ COLLECTION Account Name: BONHAMS 1793 of purchases. biodiversity/trade-use/cites/index. Lots will be available for LTD AU-CLIENT AC html or may be requested from: collection; Bank Name: HSBC Bank Suitable proof of identity will be Australia Jewels from 12pm Australia Ltd Branch Name: required for payment by bank The Director Thursday 21 November Sydney Exchange Centre cheque and building society International Wildlife Trade Australian Art and Asian Art Account Number: 078193002 cheque. Department of Sustainability, from 12pm Friday 22 November BSB: 342011 Environment, At the Bonhams office, SWIFT: HKBAAU2S Payment and collection enquiries Water, Population and 97-99 Queen Street please contact: Communities Woollahra NSW 2068 GPO Box 787 Penny Pfahl Canberra ACT 2601 Please note collection will not +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 +61 (0) 2 6274 1900 be available unless payment has [email protected] [email protected] been received and has cleared into Bonhams’ account. Kate Floro +61 (0) 2 8412 2222 Storage charges will apply from [email protected] Monday 16 December 2019 Daily storage charge per Lot: $50 plus GST Specialists Merryn Schriever Director Australian and International Art Specialist Francesca Cavazzini Aboriginal and International Art Specialist Alex Clark Australian and International Art Specialist Yvett Klein Asian Art Specialist Fiona Frith Jewellery Specialist Penelope Pfahl Accounts and Client Services Kate Floro Marketing and Client Services Venues H o Sydney ld Melbourne s Wi wo nd so rt r h St St O c e a n S M t o S n p c i ce Ca u l r e do r St n ia S St t Rush St Ln Peaker Rd Jersey Queen St St Smith Bonhams n St Quee Dw n St Vi Joh ct ye oria r L n Av e Oxford St Foreword To coincide with the launch our of Melbourne premises, we are of vintage jewels including a stunning pair of 3.00 ct diamond spray delighted to present to market our ‘Summer Season 2019’ earrings, and a fine diamond and sapphire bracelet. For outstanding of auctions. Covering the collecting categories of Australian Art, pieces by Cartier, Tiffany, Buccelatti and Bulgari, please browse our Asian art and Fine Jewels, these three auctions will take place in ‘Australia Jewels’ section. Sydney following a combined preview event at our new offices and gallery,1130 High St Armadale. We are particularly pleased to reveal to market a work by Margaret Preston which graces the cover of this season’s catalogue. Discovered Amongst the many lots of on offer are Important Chinese Paintings in Ireland by the Bonhams Dublin office, the work, Bunch of Flowers from the Yeung Collection, Sydney, which includes works by two has been considered ‘whereabouts unknown’ since its exhibition modernist Lingnan masters, Zhao Shao’ang (1905-1998) and Yang in Sydney in 1924. Still housed in its original frame, the work is an Shanshen (1913-2004). Acquired almost exclusively through direct exciting example of Preston’s still life paintings from the early 1920s. commission of the artists by the late Dr TF Yeung, a renowned Ear, Also, on offer in our Important Australian Art auction is a group of Nose and Throat specialist, the collection has been held in Sydney and works by Dorrit Black, a contemporary of Preston’s and increasingly never been offered on the open market. of comparable acclaim.
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