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Welcoming Lauren Boustridge

Category: Important Jewels

We warmly welcome Lauren Boustridge, our new Senior Jewels Specialist, to our Sydney team. She joins us from Chaumet Australia and Webb’s Auctions New Zealand, and brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to Leonard Joel. Read on to get to know Lauren…  How did your passion for jewels begin? Since a young age I […]

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Collecting First Period Worcester Porcelain

Category: Sydney

What is “first period” Worcester porcelain and what makes it so special? As the name suggests, it is porcelain made during the earliest period of the Worcester porcelain factory, or as it was originally known, the “Worcester Tonquin Manufactory”. In 1751, the physician Dr John Wall, along with an apothecary named William Davis and 13 […]

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The Estate of Livia Törley of Csantavér

Category: Fine Jewels

As a jewellery specialist, it is always exciting to handle collections with an interesting provenance. As a part of the June Fine Jewels & Timepieces auction, we are delighted to present a collection of jewels from The Estate of Lívia Törley of Csantavér. Featuring ten pieces of fine and collectable jewellery from the 19th and 20th […]

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One Watch’s Journey to a Glorious Restoration

Category: Fine Jewels

In the world of arts and antiques the concept of restoration is a delicate topic, and it’s never more fraught with difficulty than when it comes to vintage watches. The wrong processes can drastically decrease the value of the timepiece, wiping off hundreds and even thousands of dollars, and reducing collectability. It pays to tread […]

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The Rise and Rise of Jordy Kerwick

Category: Fine Art

Jordy Kerwick quickly found his calling as an artist after experimenting with painting garden pots in his Melbourne courtyard in 2016.  “I just painted over it and it felt really nice, it felt cathartic. I painted a palm tree coming out of a pot and a cigarette. I got really obsessive and started finding more […]

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Winter Collecting

Category: Leonard Joel Auctions

While I do know that the purpose of any introduction is to give the reader an idea of what an essay will cover, I will confess that I usually struggle with the balancing act that is giving our Leonard introductions some meaningful content, while not making them so light that they lack substance. I’ve excelled and […]

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The elegance and whimsy of Bruno Benini

Category: Photography

Few photographers have left such an impression on the Australian fashion and design industry as Italian-born, Melbourne-based photographer, Bruno Benini. Beginning his photography journey at Melbourne’s Peter Fox studios during the early 1950s, Benini flourished in a milieu of émigré artists, and soon branched out to establish his own studio. Here, his love for fashion […]

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Luxury Icons: Specialist’s Picks

Category: Luxury

Unique to the Australian market, Luxury Icons presents a boutique online offering of handbags from the world’s most renowned luxury houses, offered exclusively through Leonard Joel. The collection presents runway, special order, new, and vintage pieces fresh from the European market, not readily available in Australia. The collection has been personally curated by John D’Agata, […]

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Artist Spotlight: Robert Owen

Category: Fine Art

Robert Owen wears many hats. Not just idiomatically, but literally, the artist has a true penchant for hats. Across the last nearly six decades, Owen has diversified across painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and public art and architectural commissions. Whilst his practice is widespread, he has maintained a devotion to geometry and abstraction inspired by philosophy, […]

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Bringing Rhinos Back to Manas National Park

Category: The 22nd Report

In the 1990s, the greater one-horned rhino was on the verge of local extinction in India’s Manas Landscape. Today, an estimated total of 54 rhinos roam and thrive in the area and the population is steadily growing. Nearly 50% of this population is thanks to the work of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) […]

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