b'69558 FURNITURE and with convict assistance was T. GAUNT & Co. ADMIRAL FITZROYconstructed sometime between barometer in cedar case, printed paper1823 and 1828. Cordeaux arrived in adapted for the southern hemisphere562 the Colony aboard The Friendship in with rack and pinion verniers, andAn antique Tasmanian blackwoodJanuary 1818 and soon found work silvered thermometer scale. Remains ofshaving stand, fitted withat the Commissariat Department as T. Gaunt label verso, 19th century, adjustable mirror and revolvingthe Deputy Commissariat-General. 99cm high lidded storage compartment, ringCordeaux became one of the largest $400600turned baluster pedestal standland holders in the Camden district with decorated cabriole legs. with substantial holdings of sheep and 559 Circa 1880, 157cm high, 43cm across cattle. Upon the houses completion it $400600was lavishly furnished with the finest BALLARAT BERTIE point ofthat the new colony could provide; this sale pub advertising mirror,settee bearing all the hallmarks of the lithograph paper on glass, 563 New Colonial aristocratic elite.45 x 58cm A Colonial Australian canterbury,99cm high, 225cm wide, 63cm deep.$400600blackwood with red pine and kauri pine secondaries, Tasmanian origin,PROVENANCE560 circa 1860, The Leppington House, 57cm high, 43cm wide, 35cm deep New South Wales, Collection of Mr. Assorted opal potch, Lightening Ridge$1,0001,500and Mrs. L. Oakman, Campbeltown, and Queensland boulder Collection of George and Adisa Pompei, $100200564 Sydney.ILLUSTRATED561 LEPPINGTON HOUSE early ColonialClifford Craig, Kevin Fahy and Two fine Queensland boulder opalAustralian cedar sofa, with handsomelyE. Graeme Robertson, Early Colonial polished specimens in matrix, carved and turned decoration, andFurniture in New South Wales and Van the larger approximately 7cm wide (2) finely upholstered in black horsehair,Diemens Land, 1971, illustrated p. 99; $200300circa 1830. This sofa is based on a design by Peter Nestled at the foothills of the Blueand Michael Angelo Nicholsen and can Mountains west of Sydney, Leppingtonfound in Peter Nicholsens Practical House was a grand two storey manorCabinet-Maker, 1827 (plate 79)belonging to WILLIAM CORDEAUX,$8,00012,000564'