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Lot 4

A RARE FRENCH DEPICTION OF THE 1879 SYDNEY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
Circa 1879

Depicting the 'Garden Palace' of the Sydney International Exhibition, reverse-painted on convex glass with applied nacre highlights, inscribed lower centre 'Palais de l'exposition / Sydney', apparently unsigned
36 x 44.5cm, oval

Estimate $400 - $600

Sold for $30,000

There are areas throughout of mostly fine crazing to the reverse-painted decoration; otherwise, apparently in good condition.

(In preparing this report the work has not been examined out of its glazed frame.)



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York Antiques, Launceston, from whom acquired by Terence Lane in February, 1979


Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences [now Powerhouse Musem], Sydney International Exhibition 1879: An exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Sydney International Exhibition, Sydney, September–November 1979


[Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences], Sydney International Exhibition 1879: An exhibition celebrating the centenary of the Sydney International Exhibition, exh. cat (1979)

The Terence Lane Collection, Part I

AUCTION
Sale: LJ8814
11:00am - 3 May 2026
Hawthorn

VIEWING
Viewing in Carlton by appointment only. Lots 241 - 277 viewing in Hawthorn by appointment only. Bookings via decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au

CONTACT
Chiara Curcio
decorativearts@leonardjoel.com.au


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