Past Sales

This page has been created to mark the first 50 years of J. B. Hawkins Antiques, the business I opened on my arrival in Australia in 1967. I list 100 important items that have passed through my hands into various Public and Private Collections around the world and I thank all those who have made the dream come true.

All
Antiquities
Art
Australian Silver
Australiana
Clocks and Watches
English & European Silver
English Furniture
Faberge
Furniture
Gold Boxes
Jewellery
Porcelain & Pottery
Various

The Hawkins Thomas Cole Collection

I formed a collection of the work of Thomas Cole which I exhibited and sold in an Exhibition with Algernon Asprey in 1979. I sold ...

The Hawkins Engine Turned Lignum Vitae Collection

Jonathan Levi asked me to write a chapter for his book, Treen for the Table, Wooden Objects Relating to Eating and Drinking published by the ...

The Hawkins Collection of Engine-Turned Pottery

My article Staffordshire Engine Turned Pottery, 1760-1780, published March Edition of the UK Journal of the Society of Ornamental Turners, 1999, see link below, discusses ...

An Aeypornis Egg

I have sold three Aeypornis eggs in my life as a dealer in Natural History objects. My daughter Emma still owns two. For further details ...

An important Egyptian statue of Isis, dedicated to the Royal acquaintance of Ptahirdis

Late Period, Saite, mid to second half of Dynasty XXVI, circa 595-525 B.C. Depicted seated on a throne with legs together, her hands resting on ...

A Pair of Anglo – Indian Griffin Ivory Candlesticks

After a design by William Chambers, Murshidabad, circa 1785. Provenance: By repute Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Daylesford, Oxfordshire; [ … ]; William Redford, London; Jon Gerstenfeld, ...

Ivory Chandelier designed by Franz Seitz

Carved by Philipp Perron probably for King Ludwig II, if this can be finally proved, installed in his palace at Linderhof before 1875. In research ...

Nellie the Elephant

Nellie the elephant was exhibited by Hawkins & Hawkins at the Olympia Antique Dealers Fair, London, where I sold her to America in 1998. Driven ...

A pair of Bullock Candle Stands from ‘Great Tew’ the other pair are in the V&A Museum

I purchased the majority of the ‘Great Tew’ furniture for a proposed new Regency House based on the Nash villa ‘Cronkhill’ at Ellerston for Kerry ...

The Cullinan Diamond

An exact model of the original 3,106 carat flawless stone made by Tiffany in New York this and the Treasury Inkwell given by the King ...

The 1815 signed and dated Packer Cabinet, National Trust Australia (NSW)

Purchased from the antique dealer Guy Bousefield, Eton High Street for £500 in 1973 and sold to the National Trust for Old Government House Paramatta, ...

The King Cabinet / Bookcase, National Gallery Canberra

I negotiated the purchase of the cabinet from ‘King’ family descendants, with the help of Ron Radford, the best of the National Gallery Directors who ...

The porcelain table to a design by Schinkel, now one of the top 100 furniture treasures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Purchased Melbourne 1987 and exhibited at the Australian Antique Dealers Association Fair, Sydney 1988. I purchased this table for $79,500 at Sotheby’s in Melbourne, 29 ...

The Hausburg Cabinet

Friedrich Ludwig Hausberg (1817-1886) born in Berlin, Prussia, became a naturalized British subject under very unusual circumstances on 23 March 1840. This was the year ...

A pair of chairs from one of the four vase rooms at Duchess Street

This unique design by Thomas Hope (1769-1831) is of a seemingly simple form of Regency ‘tub’ chair exemplifies Thomas Hope’s timeless genius as a designer. ...

A Thomas Hope Table from Duchess Street

This table was purchased by the collector Edward Knoblock, whose label it bears. When a modern 5 ply strengthener was removed from under the top ...

The Bullock Cabinet

The cabinet is one of a pair, the other is in the V&A and contra partie to this example which belonged to the Naylor-Leyland family ...

A pair of early George III mahogany hall chairs from Harewood House, Yorkshire, attributed to William and John Linnell, Circa 1760

Each with a scrolled serpentine top rail centred by foliage and flanked by turned finials above a panelled back, edged with foliate and bead-and-reel ornament, ...