b'56234 238GOUDA two handled art potteryAn Australian timber glove box made Laughing Jackass kookaburra vasefrom Queensland walnut, maple with hand-painted flannel flowerand kauri pine, circa 1930,decoration on reverse, 10cm high, 30cm wide, signed 0208, HOLLAND, GOUDA,14cm deepLAUGHING-JACKASS, DUTCH-ART- $120200 POTTERY and with pictorial mark,26cm high 239$800800 ALICE PARSONS Australian Art Nouveau pokerwork vase with 235 landscape scene, circa 1910-1920,GOUDA two handled Dutch potterysigned A. M. Parsons,Laughing Jackass kookaburra vase23cm highwith hand-painted gum blossomAlice Mary Parsons decoration on reverse, (Mrs F.W. Parsons, ne Fuller), signed HOLLAND, GOUDA,painter, printworker and pyrographer LAUGHING-JACKASS, DUTCH-ART- and first President of the Society POTTERY and with pictorial mark, of Women Painters (inaugural 22cm high exhibition 1910), studied at Julian $400600Ashtons School, Sydney, she exhibited with the Society of Arts and 236 Crafts of N.S.W. and with the Society of Women Painters from 1910. The GOUDA hand-painted Dutch potteryPowerhouse Museum, Sydney, holds Laughing Jackasskookaburra vasea fine screen decorated with an Art with floral decoration, Nouveau landscape in pokerwork.signed HOLLAND, GOUDA,$150250 LAUGHING-JACKASS, DUTCH-ART-POTTERY and with pictorial mark, 24024cm high GRIMWADES Kookaburras antique $400600English black porcelain vase and lidded pot, early 20th century, 234237 black factory mark to base,SOUVENIR OF SYDNEY antique olivethe vase 13cm high (2) 241wood fan with mirrored back, together$120200 with a SYDNEY N.S.W. antique oliveMAY BROOKES impressive green and wood workbox, 19th/20th century, gilt hand-painted ceramic vase, adorned the box 22cm wide (2) with kookaburra and frill neck lizard,$120200signed M. Brookes, painted on French porcelain blank,38.5cm highMAY BROOKES (1874-1938, Melbourne and Queensland) exhibited work including Australian floral and faunal subjects at Galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1932. Her autobiographical Wild Flowers and Wanderings: Under the North Star and Southern Cross (Paris 1934) was published just before she left France to return to Melbourne. That year Arthur Streeton favourably reviewed her exhibition of flower paintings and landscapes at the Fisher Galleries, Melbourne.$1,2002,000242ADA NEWMAN hand-painted porcelain platter with butterfly decoration,signed and dated A. I. Newman, 1931,35.5cm diameterAda Ione Newman (1869-1949), studied at the Sydney Tech 1893-95, exhibited examples of china painting in the Australian Exhibition of Womens Work in Melbourne in 1907 and regularly in the annual exhibitions of the Arts & Crafts Society of NSW. She shared her studio with Ethel Atkinson from approximately 1919 onwards.242 $400600'