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• Auction House:
  Cordy's
• Sale Name:
  December 2014 Antique & Art Auction
• Sale Date:
  02 Dec 2014 ~ 9am
• Lot #:
  696
• Lot Description:
  An early 1900s N.Z. folk art carved cupboard
  the small kauri cupboard with the door heavily carved in an Australian theme featuring a kangaroo, kookaburra, an aboriginal figure, lizard, emu etc. and a shield quoting "The Black Forest Australia". Three shelves to the interior. 610 x 280 x 1090.
• Provenance:
  William was a friend of the vendor's family in the early 1900s when they all lived in Miramar, Wellington.
• Notes:
  This piece was carved by William Ah Gee, one of Wellington's earliest Chinese settlers from the Canton Province. In 1871 he married a N.Z. woman. He was well known in Wellington and admired for his carving and listed his occupation as 'carver and gilder'.
• Estimate:
  NZ$650 - 650
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Furniture

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