b'61280 285 289ROYAL DOULTON WaratahTASMANIAN BIRDS antique EnglishSIR JOSEPH BANKS bronze medallion pattern antique English porcelaincup, saucer and plate set, eachmounted in cedar with whalebone back, tea ware with black floral border,decorated with Tasmanian birds andtogether with a novelty boot vesta early to mid 20th century, (27 items), flora, circa 1925, case with folk art engraving ADVANCE green factory mark to bases stamped Peacock Pottery, CharlesAUSTRALIA, and antique 1872 red $200300Davis, Hobart, Tasmanian Birds, wax seal in treen case CENTRAL the plate 15.5cm diameter (3) QUEENSLAND MEAT PRESERVING 281 $120200COMPANY LIMITED, (3 items),the treen box 8.5cm diameterEDITH I. BROWN (Sydney) pair of$150250 hand-painted portrait cabinet plates,286signed E. I. B. and Edith I. Brown,ROYAL DOULTON group of four290circa 1910, assorted advertising plates includingAn antique clay pipe with kangaroo 23cm diameter Commonwealth Bank of Australiadecoration, together with an antique EDITH ISABELLA BELL BROWNwith coat of arms, Farmers andclay pipe with Australian coat of arms, (1864-1946) studied at the SydneyCivil Service Stores Restaurant (2),19th/20th century, (2 items),Technical College from 1893, winningearly 20th century, (4 items), the kangaroo example 8.5cm longa prize for first year modelling infactory marks to base,1895, and teaching art there, 1894- the largest 27cm diameter $100200 1926. She received second prize for$120200291art needlework at the First Australian Exhibition of Womens Work in287 GEORGE ADAMS - TATTERSALLS: Melbourne, 1907. By 1911 she had aantique walking stick with carved antler studio at Paddington. From 1912 untilLEWIS JOHN GODFREY pair of plasterhandle, silver collar engraved with the 1920s Brown exhibited with thedeep relief plaques, advertising PEARSownership details, timber shaft and Arts & Crafts Society of NSW whereSOAP circa 1893. metal ferrule; together with an African she also gave demonstrations ofEach approx. 52cm high, 35.5cm widetimber walking stick with carved head pottery and china painting. Examplesand housed in gilded box frameshandle and specimen wood segmented of her work were purchased from62.5cm high, 46.4cm wide, 10cm deep. shaft, (missing ferrule); and an antique the Societys annual exhibitions byEnglish born sculptor LEWIS JOHNsilver topped walking stick with affixed the AGNSW. The plates are likely toGODFREY worked in Australia in thelabel stating it belonged to C.P. HARRIS be early works in her oeuvre, copied1850s and settled in Dunedin Newof the Bank of N.S.W. (3 items),from engravings or book illustrations.Zealand in the early 1870s, becomingthe largest 88cm highMichel Reymond described Brownknown for his skilled carving ofGeorge Adams (1839-1904), Australian as .a tall and imposing woman offlora and fauna. publican, lottery promoter and founder commanding appearance. (2) The boy is derived from John Everettof Tattersalls Club in Sydney. Political $100200Millaiss famous 1886 painting, whichlegislation on gambling forced him to became known as Bubbles after beingremove the business to Tasmania.282 purchased by Pears soap for their$350450 advertising campaigns. Godfrey has THE BRITISH EMPIRE EXHIBITION,moved the setting outdoors with the292WEMBLEY, 1925 souvenir porcelainboy gazing at a soap bubble among theADVERTISING AND METAL WARE: cup and saucer with pictorial friezetrees. In the companion work, a girl onComprising of Kemsley & Co., displaying animals from The Empirethe far side of the same tree and holdsHobart, Baracuta engraved copper including kangaroo, kiwi bird, bison,up her sailor hat to catch a bubble. Bothsign, R. & J. BINNIE, Sydney elephant and giraffe, (2 items) figures hold a cake of soap in one hand,folding brass mount, WILLSS VICE the saucer 14cm diameter the boys being inscribed PEARS. TheREGAL MIXTURE pressed metal $100200works are also reminiscent of the Youashtray, The New Powder Sprinkler, Dirty Boy! stamped metal statuetteAnthony Hordern & Sons, Sydney 283 designed by Italian sculptor Giovannitin in original box; together with an Two antique Continental vases adornedFocardi and produced from about theembossed copper shield shaped plaque, with kangaroos and wallabies, plus bearlate 1870s by Wunderlich Ltd, Redfern,19th/20th century, (5 items),and deer, 19th century, Sydney, as an advertisement for Pearsthe largest 40cm highthe larger 12.5cm high (2) soap. Refs: Robert La Nauze, Lewis$120200 John Godfrey in Australia Australiana, $150250vol. 40, no 1, Feb 2018. (2) 293$6001,000Rare celluloid May Gibb gumnut baby 284 ornament and two vintage blown glass SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL288 Christmas ornaments, 20th century,EXHIBITION 1879-80 antique EnglishAn antique silver mounted burra nutthe largest 14cm long (3)porcelain beaker with Australian coatvesta with boomerang cartouche$200300 of arms, stamped with Amphora markengraved H. Trinnick (The JOSIAH WEDGWOOD & SONS,Secretary of the Australian Natives294ETRURIA STAFFS, ENGLAND, AGENTSAssociation), the lid engraved THOMAS WEBB & SONS, SYDNEYCHARLES McCARTHY metal relief EXHIBITION; together with a FIRSTA.N.A. Fete 1913; together with twoportrait of unknown female, signed WOMENS EXHIBITION, 1907 pressedantique burra nut vestas (damaged),and dated C. W. McCarthy M.D., ruby glass beaker, (2 items), 19th/20th century, (3 items), Sydney, 1914,11.5cm and 10cm high the largest 4.5cm high 77 x 62cm overall$200300$200300Dr Charles William McCarthy (1848-1919), eminent Sydney medical practitioner and sculptor.$400600 '