Down to a fine art
COLLECTION: THIS IS ONE UNMISSABLE AUCTION
Bernardi’s brings art by WH Coetzer, an unusual work by Grace Battiss and collectables, including ZAR mounted coins, under the hammer.
Bernardi’s next fine art auction with include all kinds of collectables, silver, estate jewellery and period furniture, followed by South African paintings and sculptures.
Featured in the line-up are a George V silver tea service with matching tilting tea kettle on a stand, a part art deco Dutch silver canteen, a silver Turkish Kahve set, Egyptian silver hollowware and a fine Portuguese ink stand.
Included in the jewellery is an Edwardian 9ct gold fob chain, a late Victorian 9ct gold charm and seal bracelet, ZAR mounted coins and various pocket and wrist watches.
The session will conclude with a few select pieces of antique furniture – of particular interest to collectors will be a pair of Victorian burr-walnut vitrines, a suite of 10 bustle-back dining chairs, a charming William IV mahogany ladies sewing work table and a pair of Edwardian netsuke wall display cabinets.
Die Trek oor die Grootrivier by WH Coetzer – a similar etching is included in Coetzer’s book My Kwas Vertel (1945) – is among the important paintings and drawings included in the second session. The sale will also feature erotic works and landscapes by Walter Battiss – including a watercolour of the Apies River and diminutive nude linocuts, still lifes by Gregoire Boonzaier, Michael Heyns and Otto Klar, and landscapes by Sydney Carter, André de Beer, Hennie Niemann (Jnr and Snr) and JH Pierneef.
Unusual works on offer are a scarce landscape by Grace Battiss, abstract cityscapes by Christiaan Nice, Venetian Gondolas by Terence McCaw, Camping Gypsies by Neville Lewis and watercolours by Erich Mayer.
Ceramic works by Henriëtte Ngako, George Enslin and Rorke’s Drift pottery with sculptures by Mike Edwards and Jan van der Merwe’s Forgotten Letters should attract keen bidding.
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