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AN AUSTRALIAN CEDAR BOOKCASE, CIRCA 1835
AN AUSTRALIAN CEDAR BOOKCASE, CIRCA 1835Estimate $30,000 – $40,000
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- Lot Sold $78,000 (Hammer Price)
- $93,600 (Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium)
the ogee moulded cornice above a pair of glazed doors, each with three horizontal bars decorated with foliate scrolled ends, with further foliate scrolled spandres, above a pair of well figured flame cedar cupboard doors with sunburst carved decoration to the corners, enclosing two shelves, raised on turned feet; 112CM WIDE, 54CM DEEP, 211CM HIGH
REFERENCE For a similar bookcase see 19th century Australian Furniture, plate 38;
LITERATURE Australian Colonial Furniture, a Guidebook by John Buttsworth, Colonial Living, Press, 1987, page 78, plate 34
PROVENANCE The John Buttsworth Collection
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