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Warwick Oakman Antiques

(Warwick Oakman)
62 Sandy Bay Road
Battery Point Hobart TAS 7004
woakman@bigpond.com
Phone: 03 6224 9904
Mobile: 0439 990 854
Facsimile: 03 6224 9904
Warwick Oakman Antiques is located in Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania. He specializes in 18th and 19th century English and Australian furniture, antiques and the unusual. He advises the NSW and Tasmanian National Trusts, Historic Houses Trust of NSW and the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery on Colonial furniture and decorative arts. Warwick is a third generation dealer.

Items for Sale

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Circa: 1835
Price: $600
A rare gilded and stamped brass and timber ornamental curtain rod. The gilded timber rod with steel slot brackets to fit into the upper edge of an architrave, with the original terminations in gilded stamped brass, and ensuite curtain tie in the form of nasturtiums. Original condition. Width 1600mm
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Circa: 1920
Price: $350
A good quality composite stone garden urn, moulded with masks of fauns and clover leaves
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Circa: 1890
Price: $325
Warmson & Co, Sheffield, UK, the box and metal in mint condition - nice patina to handles
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Circa: 1880
Price: $2,500
A rare case of Tasmanian shells, for mounting into jewellery or ornaments. From Stewarts the jewellers, Launceston. Formerly in the Burrows Collection. Contains shells drilled but not strung for Aboriginal shell necklaces
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Circa: 1830
Price: $1,100
A green stained leather and brass trunk. The carcass of camphour wood, and in excellent original condition. The inside lined with 1917 Launceston newspaper, suggesting that this item has been in Tasmania for a long period of time.
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Circa: 1820
Price: $2,650
A fine and large China trade trunk, in green studded leather on a camphor carcass. With the makers label to the interior of the lid for Anching of Canton
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Circa: 1810
Price: $4,250
PART OF A LARGE GROUP SCULPTURE REPRESENTING MENELAUS TO THE RESCUE OF PATROCLUS, AFTER THE FAMOUS 'PASQUINO GROUP' OF ROME. THE BUST IS A ROMAN COPY OF THE SECOND CENTURY A.C. AFTER AN HELLENISTIC BRONZE OF THE SCHOOL OF PERGAMON, NOW IN THE GALLERIA DEI BUSTI OF THE VATICAN MUSEUMS. ORIGINAL FLAT OIL PATINATED PLASTER. Italian c 1810. Height 107cm.
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Circa: 1856
Price: $450
H.M. Steam Frigate "Geyser" When Off The Coast of Mt. Edgecombe Painted by W. Knell, Pinx Engraved by C. Hunt Published Nov. 1st, 1856 by Ackermann & Co
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Circa: 1835
Price: $450
A fine quality, mint and unrestored tea set, in elephant pink, with Copeland and Garret patern number to the sucrier. The gilding and spout perfect.
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Circa: 1950
Price: $1,200
Clive Wallis. (Australian 1909-1983) Pencil. Printed signature L/L A rare original 'ash can school' design for a personal bookplate, of a man being strangled to starvation by a female mannequin, encircled in a wreath of roses. A pet monkey and Galah also tied to the mannequin.
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Circa: 1830
Price: POA
A fine quality mahogany truss leg lobby table. Similar to models made in Colonial Australia. Untouched original condition and surface finish.Sold
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Circa: 1720
Price: POA
N IMPORTANT GEORGE 1 WALNUT LONGCASE CLOCK STEPHEN HORSEMAN, LONDON, C. 1725. The dial with silvered chapter ring, subsidiary dials for strike/ silent and calendar. The dial frets of American Indian masks and Dolphins. The two train movement of the highest quality, with five fine pillars, eight day duration, striking the hours. Original bell, key, weights and pendulum. The original movement and case of the most superb colour and patination. Minor restoration to base and hood. Stephen Horseman was an apprentice, business partner and successor to the Royal Clockmaker, Daniel Quare. The business closed in 1733. This clock continues Quares numbering system. Discovered in Tasmania, the clock was a payment for a medical debt in the 1950s to a Hobart Doctor. SOLD
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Circa: 1780
Price: $1,400
A good quality Cuban mahogany dining table, 5' in diameter, with original pad feet and oak rails. To seat 8.
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Circa: 1835
Price: $2,800
A fine quality English made Old Sheffield plate tureen, with fitted ensuite removeable dishes and handle. The borders of cast silver, the plate in mint original condition. From the Nairn family of Leyton, Augusta Rd, New Town Tasmanian. William Nairn (1812 - 1869) was Comptroller - General of Convicts at Port Arthur.
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Circa: 1850
Price: $2,750
A fine quality Italian ‘Grand Tour Souvenir’ oil on canvas, in the gilded timber original frame of the Grand Canal, Venice, from the Rialto Bridge.
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Circa: 1830
Price: $3,750
A well patinated late Greek revival sideboard, probably Scottish. With fitted cellarette and three frieze drawers.Of desirable small size
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Circa: 1820
Price: $6,500
A ‘GRIFFIN’ PATENT CHAIR Cuban mahogany, brass, steel, leather. London c 1815. A very rare English Regency period chair with patent action, labeled by the Makers to George III, the leading invalid of the day
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Circa: 1830
Price: $5,500
A fine Danish or Russian secretaire abbatant. Made of Karelian birch, with brass inlays. Original surface finish and condition
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Circa: 1850
Price: $1,400
A rare large early Victorian period red terracotta garden urn on the original stand. Height 114 cm o/a.
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Circa: 1836
Price: $12,500
Pair of Theorem watercolours. Hobart, 1836. Johanna Gorringe (1817 – 1864). Original Tasmanian myrtle frames. A very rare pair of early Tasmanian Colonial period watercolours, in the original native timber frames, the flowers taken from pattern book stencils, similar to American naïve work of the time. Johanna Gorringe arrived in Hobart Town in 1820 and died unmarried in 1864. These were painted by her at the age of 19. In 1860 she was committed to the Lunatic Asylum, New Norfolk and died 4 years after.
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Circa: 1825
Price: $1,200
A fine and elegant pair of English Regency hall chairs with dish moulded seats, fan carved centres and fine ring turned legs.
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Circa: 1815
Price: $16,500
ENGLISH REGENCY MUSICAL BRACKET CLOCK London c 1815. Handley and Moore, Makers 3 train fusee movement, with bell striking & musical barrel. Striking the quarters and hours on 9 bells, , repeat and date train. Finely engraved backplate and bob pendulum with regulation. Handley and Moore were esteemed makers supplying the wholesale and export trade. Ex private collection WF Bradshaw.
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Circa: 1810
Price: $1,400
An elegant armchair, with finely reeded frame, original caneing and padded toprail.
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Circa: 1815
Price: $6,750
A fine and very original English Regency period day bed. With the original orange 'Etruscan' paintwork, caneing, straw filled palliase, castors and surface finish. Regency painted furniture with the original paintwork in excellent condition is rare.
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Circa: 1810
Price: $850
A smart English Regency period ebonized and gilded overmantel mirror.Original plates, backboards and gilding
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Circa: 1820
Price: $4,400
A rare English Regency period music stand. With the original painted and gilded decoration in lovely condition, and original brass hardware. The base of cast iron(for weight) decorated with gilt penwork.
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Circa: 1600
Price: $1,600
A weathered stone Corinthian capital.
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Circa: 1940
Price: $950
The plaster, timber and bronze castings patterns by Sargissons jewellers of Hobart for the making of the present Monstrance. The Monstrance, designed by Lucien Dechaineaux remains on the altar and was commissioned from the leading Hobart jewellers, Sargisson & Co. The patterns feature native Tasmanian bluegums (the floral emblem of the state)and art deco styling.
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Circa: 1967
Price: $2,700
A fine quality set of six (5+1) Regency revival dining chairs, with reeded frames and ebony stringing. The seats with hand stitched horsehair fillings. Made by Saybolt Cleland. Renowned for its unsurpassed quality, Saybolt Cleland made reproduction furniture in Philadelphia for over forty years, from 1933 to the mid 1970's. They specialized in faithfully reproducing the finest American and English antiques from museums, historic homes and private collections. Their clientele included State and Federal offices, The White House, Colonial Williamsburg etc
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Circa: 1795
Price: $1,900
China. (Chien – Lung period 1736-1795) The use of the five claw dragon device was strictly reserved for Courtesans and subjects of the Imperial Court.
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Circa: 1840
Price: $850
A cut and etched glass shade for a sinumbra lamp
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Circa: 1680
Price: $5,500
A fine Florentine bronze figure of St John the Baptist, with traces of silver and gilt. Original patination. ex Richard Truscott collection, London. Height. 197mm
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Circa: 1835
Price: $12,500
A best quality Tasmanian Colonial period chiffoniere. made of exceptional cuts of NSW cedar, with the original back and columns. Fitted with a frieze drawer, the cupboards flanked by pilasters veneered in musk. Hobart origin. Similar to work supplied by JW Woolley for Government House Hobart. Original patina and finish.
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Circa: 1870
Price: $4,250
A very useful and attractive Tasmanian made housekeepers cupboard. With the original grained paint finish and glass to the doors. The timbers Kauri and Baltic pine.
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Circa: 1890
Price: $5,500
A Tasmanian late 19th century wardrobe, made of the most exceptional cuts of solid Tasmanian blackwood and Huon pine, the pediment made of alternating bands of King William pine and casuarina. Original condition and finish
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Circa: 1880
Price: $2,750
A rare Tasmanian made Huon pine and Australian cedar kitchen dresser of architectural form. Originally part of the fittings of the Saracens Head Inn, Hobart
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Circa: 1860
Price: $750
A fine Victorian gold mounted cameo UK / Italian c 1860. The subject of unusual type
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Circa: 1835
Price: $850
Original gilding and plate
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Circa: 1835
Price: $1,250
A William IV period solid Brazillian rosewood etarge or small occassional table. With original gilt brass casters. The whole completely flat packs for export or travel