About Wessex Gallery
Wessex Gallery is a boutique online art and antiques gallery based in Melbourne, Australia. Englishman Martin Ayers established Wessex Gallery in 2003 and turned his passion for collecting beautiful objects into a thriving international business. Today the gallery has a reputation built on quality, honesty and integrity. Wessex Gallery is one of the largest stockists of antique clocks in the southern hemisphere with a broad selection of French, English and German antique clocks dating from the 18th to 20th century. We specialise in decorative Chinoiserie cased c...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Red Versace Porcelain Medusa Display Plate By Rosenthal, 20th Century
By Versace
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An Red Versace porcelain Medusa display plate manufactured by Rosenthal, Germany.
Decorated in gold, red and black to create a high quality accessory, in the original Versace gif...
Category
Late 20th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Versace Porcelain Medusa Display Plate By Rosenthal, 20th Century
By Versace
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An blue Versace porcelain Medusa display plate manufactured by Rosenthal, Germany.
Decorated in gold, blue and black to create a high quality accessory, in the original Versace g...
Category
Late 20th Century Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Set Of Four European Period Portraits, Oil On Board, 19th Century
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A set of four decorative portraits in original circular gilt and gesso frames including Portrait Of A Child - Maria Teresa of Savoy.
Oil on board, each work signed 'J Klepp'.
Littl...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Austrian Georgian Paintings
Materials
Wood
French Green Ground Tole Wall Clock, Louis Montjoye A Paris, 18th Century
By Louis Montjoye
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very rare and desirable French, 18th century green ground tole wall clock decorated with gilt grapevines, the white painted dial with fine filigree gilt hands, hours in Roman numerals and an outer minute dial, signed by important clockmaker 'Montjoye A Paris', the brass movement similarly signed with script signature, with silk suspension, alarm and pull repeat.
Provenance: From a Private Collection, North Carolina.
Louis Montjoye...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Wall Clocks
Materials
Tôle
James Williamson Bell (English), Coot Chick and Water Lillies, Woodblock, C1980
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
James Williamson-Bell (1938-2010), Coot Chick And Water Lillies, Dated 1980, Woodcut Limited Edition 24/45.
James Williamson Bell was a native of Wallsend, Newcastle and began his w...
Category
Late 20th Century British Paintings
Materials
Paper
James Williamson Bell (English), Blackbird, Woodblock, C1980
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
James Williamson-Bell (1938-2010), Blackbird, Dated 1980, Woodcut Limited Edition 18/50.
James Williamson Bell was a native of Wallsend, Newcastle and began his working life in the ...
Category
Late 20th Century British Paintings
Materials
Paper
West African Tribal Mask, Early 20th Century
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A highly decorative carved wood West African tribal mask decorated in blue and red polychrome colours on a black ground.
In very good condition wi...
Category
Early 20th Century African Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Wood
Fred Yates (English), Cheadle Hulme, Oil On Board, Circa 1990
By Fred Yates
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Fred Yates (1922 - 2008) Cheadle Hulme, Oil on board, signed lower right.
Provenance: Gift of the artist.
Cheadle Hulme is a suburb of the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport in Greater Manchester. The subject matter, which possibly depicts a working men's club, dates this work to the early years of Yates's career.
Frederick was an English artist who was inspired by the famous Manchester painter L. S. Lowry.
Yates painted pictures about the lives of ordinary people. His paintings portray sharp observations of people going about their daily lives painted with strong impressionist colours and expressive brushwork.
His paintings are included in many private and public collections including Brighton and Hove Art Gallery, Liverpool University, the University of Warwick, Torquay Art Gallery and Russell Coates...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Paintings
Materials
Masonite
Pair of West German Vases, Circa 1970's
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An unusual and highly decorative pair of West German vases in the Grecian style.
The green tapering bodies with double looped handles above a frieze with scenes of ancient armed wa...
Category
Late 20th Century German Pottery
Materials
Pottery
Rare French Novelty Four Dial Clock by Blumberg, Paris, 19th Century
By Patent, Blumberg & Co.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A magnificent large rare novelty Blumberg four face tower clock, circa 1880.
The walnut case topped with a copper roof and all-over brass detailing, the...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century British Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Brass, Copper
A Vintage Glazed Porcelain Charger Of An Asian Lady, Signed 'Subi', 20th Century
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
A very attractive vintage glazed porcelain charger, probably Japanese, signed Subi on the base, depicting a young lady seated and dressing her hair, wearing a flowing red robe decorated with a floral pattern with shades of black, orange and white. Adjacent is a large fish bowl...
Category
20th Century Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
English Red Chinoiserie Mantel Clock, Japy Freres Movement, Circa 1920
By Japy Frères
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
An early 20th century Japanned red and gilded mantle clock, decorated with cranes among a floral design, the 4" inch enamel dial having Arabic numerals a...
Category
Early 20th Century Mantel Clocks
Materials
Wood
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