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Acquisition number:
834
Catalogue number:
embk0068
File name:
BK68
File location:
Bookcase Catalogue of fine furniture and fine arts includes Lot 311, "an important Australian cedar and specimen wood sideboard of grand proportions carved with the pictorial history of the foundation and progress of the colony of Victoria, circa 1860-1873, by Peter McLean" Peter McLean was a resident of East Melbourne. Illustrated.
Also a small newspaper clipping (The Age, 30 Oct 2010, Business, p.21) with price paid for the sideboard, $600,000 including buyer's premium.
Item type:
Book
Subject address:
40 George Street, East Melbourne
Number of pages:
200
Item condition:
Good
Date of publication or creation:
2010
Publisher:
Sotheby's Australia
Publication place:
Armadale, Vic
Year acquired:
2011
Donor:
Sylvia Black