This is a fascinating collection from an early local market gardener, featuring the complete contents of his home
(plus a few selected outside estate items).

Auction instructions from the family are to clear the house, with low start prices and mostly unreserved lots.

50–52 Clarke Road, Springvale South, Victoria

Please note:
This auction is not held on the property. It is an online-only auction, conducted remotely from our office.

The auction includes fabulous investment and decorative art, fine antique English and French furniture, and a large collection of fine signed antique bronzes. Porcelain highlights include Royal Worcester, Vienna, Sèvres and Caverswall, along with a multitude of German lace ballet dancers and group figures.

There is also a strong selection of antique clocks, tin toys, and garden items including pots, statuary, fountains and figures.

Venture into this wonderful eclectic collection, including:

Fabulous gallery-size oil paintings, including several floral still lifes

Other works featuring the rarest Pro Hart self-portrait in studio

The largest and superb Patricia Moran still life

Rare John Allcott c.1932 painting “Searching for Lasseter” (camel train with Indigenous figures)

Works by David Boyd, Evan Mackley and Howard Arkley (Suburban House lithograph)

A magnificent large collection of fine antique signed bronze figures is also featured, including a monumental one-metre A. Gaudez warrior, works by Moreau, and several other world-class pieces.

Fine porcelain includes Royal Worcester, Sèvres, Caverswall, Lladró, Dresden and Royal Vienna, along with many others. This is complemented by elegant and decorative 19th-century French and English furniture, including a vitrine cabinet, corner cabinet, salon cabinet, Napoleon III brass inlay card table, pedestals, bedside cabinets, French and contemporary cabinets, and a superb floral marquetry inlay drum-top dining table with matching chairs.

Wonderful 19th-century clocks include a Napoleon III early 19th-century Grand Sonnerie gilt bronze clock, French salon clocks, figural clocks, carriage clocks, marble portico clocks, a tole clock, and a wonderful large 19th-century music box.

Eclectic items include a large collection of vintage tin toy trucks and cars, garden statuary, figural fountains, a multitude of large pots, and an antique cherub cast-iron hallstand and planters.

The quality and condition of items in this auction are commendable.

Sunday, 15 February, 7:00 pm

Additional highlights include Russian silver (including Fabergé), a superb Russian icon, Moorcroft, Royal Doulton pieces, large Sèvres vases, and more.

Please don’t hesitate to ask for condition reports, additional photos, or further information.

Biography of the Collector

A short biography of the owner of this wonderful collection, supplied by one of his daughters:

Gavin, my father, was a local market gardener, growing vegetables and later flowers for many years in Moorabbin, Springvale and surrounding market gardens. After his retirement in 1988 and moving into this home, Gavin travelled throughout Victoria on a mission to buy beautiful things for his new home. His passion was, unsurprisingly, flowers—a testament clearly reflected in the contents of this sale.

He loved colour, flowers and Australian art, purchasing many local works from a wide range of galleries. He also loved vintage and veteran trucks and cars, which evoked fond memories from his childhood. Comfort and style, along with flowers, were important to Gavin, so he furnished and decorated his home to his taste, irrespective of cost, in between travelling, golfing and tending to his beautiful garden at Clarke Road.

Gavin passed away a few years ago, and the family is now offering this eclectic and wonderful collection for sale by auction—mostly unreserved.

Good luck.

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