Rare size antique French long farmhouse table, three oak plank top, standing square tapering legs, with cutlery drawer to side & deep drawer to end, approx 78cm H x 300cm W x 81cm D

Fine antique Regency giltwood convex circular mirror applied scrolling foliage and crest mounted with an eagle holding a ball, well carved scrolling giltwood foliage to the shoulders and base (please note decoration is removable from back), approx 150cm H x 92cm W

Antique 18th Chinese sang de boeuf conical bowl, with later made stand, along with original purchase receipt Hong Kong 1980. Identity No C 61146. Good sound condition, approx 19.2cm dia

SHOULD READ - A well detailed French prisoner-of-war-style bone and horn model of a 42 gun frigate - 7½ x 12ins (19 x 30.5cms) with bound masts, yards and stunsail booms, standing and running rigging and deck details including carved male figurehead with top hat, hair rails with carved rope edges, anchors with bound wooden stocks, belaying rails, gratings, stove-pipe, bell canopy, balustrading, deck-rails, companionways, upper deck guns, two ship's boats, one in chocks and one in stone davits, with thwarts and oars and other details. The planked and pinned hull has horn strakes and carved stern and quarter window details. Mounted on two bone supports on decorated straw work base with leaf decorated bone edgings. Glazed mahogany case (later). Purchased Christies London Lot number 336 15th April 1993

Large antique 19th century Chinese famille rose hu shape porcelain vase of "hundred deer" motif, decorated with stylised pierced twin handles, Qianlong (Chien Long) 1736-1795, six reign mark to base in red, along with a carved wood stand, approx 45cm H x 34cm dia (excluding stand)

SUPERB EARLY INCISED PARRYING SHIELD, DARLING RIVER REGION, NEW SOUTH WALES, Carved and engraved hardwood and natural pigment (no custom stand) Early nineteenth century. Parrying Shield of bi-convex section and elongated triangular profile, with solid cut handle, showing beautifully carved sections of chevron and linear motifs emphasised by the surrounding smooth surface, terminating with undecorated bosses on the upper and lower face. Approx L80 x 13cm. PROVENANCE Dr Gerald Holt Collection H319 Lord McAlpine Collection Private collection, France Private collection, Sydney

Antique rustic 18th century English oak three drawer dresser, standing on square legs, approx 79cm H x 188cm W x 45cm D

James Timothy Gleeson AO (21 November 1915 - 20 October 2008) Australia, No22, Herakles III, oil on board, signed lower right, approx 18.5cm x 13cm

Piaggio Ape Calessino 200, in good condition. (More details to come) (Please note this item is sold as is and is not registered)

Fine antique 18th century English mahogany secretaire bookcase circa 1760's. Attributed to the workshop of Thomas Chippendale. The broken swan-neck pediment with rosette terms centering fretwork and a platform above a pierced stiff leaf frieze and rope twist gadrooning. The cabinet top fitted with geometric astral glazed doors, three adjustable red painted pine slide shelves with mahogany front edges, the base top edge with fine gadrooned pagoda canopy, carved acanthus leaves to the corners of the gadrooned edge, This extra carving the corners of the pagoda gadrooning is seldom seen. The secretaire interior of plain design, with four pigeon holes, and five drawers, one drawer lower right is fitted with two compartments for ink pots and writing items, each with original Dutch brass axe shape handles . The hinges fitted to the secretaire drawer bear the H. TIBATS stamp, which has been noted on a number of distinguished pieces of case furniture dating from the mid-18th century including the renowned “Messer Cabinet” attributed to Thomas Chippendale. Cock beaded edge to the drawers of graduating size with figured mahogany fronts, fitted with the fine gilt bronze handles, the legs of Ogee shaped bracket feet, with laminated secondary legs behind the brackets legs, with red painted finish. Similar types of pagoda canopy waisted moldings to that on the present lot appear on display cabinets or 'China Cases' among the designs in Thomas Chippendale's seminal "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director", originally published three times between 1754 and 1762. The small size of this piece would indicate it may have been a special order secretaire. By descent to the current family member - Ex Estate of Sir Peter Tennant OBE, intelligence officer, linguist and businessman: born 29 November 1910; OBE 1945; Overseas Director, FBI 1952-63, Deputy Director-General 1963-65, Special Adviser, CBI 1964-65; CMG 1958; Director- General, British National Export Council 1965-71; Kt 1972;1995); died Haslemere, Surrey 22 December 1996. Approx Total height 246 cm x 91.5 cm wide at base x top and pelmet 135 cm total. 54 cm depth, case top 32.5 cm depth.