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Antique Grace Seccombe (Australia) bookends

Grace Povey Seccombe (nee Capper) (1880-1956), was born in the potteries district of England, at Tunstall in Staffordshire in 1880.

Her father was a potter and Grace followed in his footsteps before the family migrated to Sydney in 1902.

She studied black and white drawing at Sydney Technical College, and then married and it wasn't until 1926 that she took up art in a professional capacity, concentrating on the manufacture of hand-painted earthenware.

She worked from a modest studio that was part of the family home in the Sydney suburb of Eastwood, making use of the local clay.

She had become a member of the Sydney Society of Arts and Crafts in 1930 and exhibited with the society until 1951.

After her first major exhibition in 1931, staged by the Society of Arts and Crafts, she was contracted to sell her work through the Sydney jewellers Prouds more... Ltd. stores. She also sold through the Blaxland Gallery at the former Grace Bros in Broadway and the Taronga Zoo gift shop.

During the 1940s Seccombe became known for her small hand-modelled, brightly painted pottery birds and animals. Her early kookaburras and other birds and animals of the 1920s are marked 'Australia’ and 'S’.

The range of Australiana fauna she modelled in the 1930s and 1940s for Prouds Ltd are either initialled 'GS’ or signed 'Grace Seccombe Australia’ on the base.

She also designed plates, dishes and bowls decorated with Aboriginal motifs in the 1930s and 1940s.

Grace Seccombe died on 25 February 1956. less...

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A pair of glazed earthenware kookaburra bookends, attributed to…
Glazed kookaburra bookends attributed to Grace Seccombe, 13 cm high

A pair of glazed earthenware kookaburra bookends, attributed to Grace Seccombe (1880-1956), each naturalistically cast perched on a stump, unsigned, 5.12 in. high

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A pair of Grace Seccombe ceramic kookaburra bookends, each in…
Grace Seccombe ceramic kookaburra bookends

A pair of Grace Seccombe ceramic kookaburra bookends, each in streaked brown and green glaze with naturalistically painted bird, height 4.72 in.,

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Grace Seccombe (1880-1956), a pair of blue fairy wren bookends,…
Blue Fairy Wren Bookends by Grace Seccombe

Grace Seccombe (1880-1956), a pair of blue fairy wren bookends, circa 1945, each glazed earthenware L form stand modelled with a bird perched on a naturalistic ground, each inscribed 'Grace Seccombe, Australia', 4.72 in. high, 2.76 in. wide, 3.94 in. deep…

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Grace Seccombe, style pair of koala bookends, with original…
Grace Seccombe Koala Bookends

Grace Seccombe, style pair of koala bookends, with original retailers paper label 'Leonard Smith gift Shop', 5.51 in. high

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Grace Seccombe, style pair of kookaburra bookends, 14.5 cm high
Kookaburra Bookends by Grace Seccombe

Grace Seccombe, style pair of kookaburra bookends, 5.71 in. high

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Grace Seccombe style pair of kookaburra bookends, '14 cm high
Grace Seccombe Kookaburra Bookends

Grace Seccombe style pair of kookaburra bookends, '5.51 in. high

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Grace Seccombe style 'Seven little Australians' pair of…
Grace Seccombe Kookaburra Bookends

Grace Seccombe style 'Seven little Australians' pair of kookaburra bookends, 6.10 in. high

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A pair of Grace Seccombe koala bookends, circa 1930, each…
Grace Seccombe Koala Bookends

A pair of Grace Seccombe koala bookends, circa 1930, each modelled with a koala sitting in a tree trunk, with additional decoration of gum branches and clusters of gum leaves, bright yellow, emerald, tan, grey and black matt and gloss glaze, 5.12 in. high…

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A pair of Grace Seccombe kookaburra bookends, circa 1930, each…
Grace Seccombe Kookaburra Bookends

A pair of Grace Seccombe kookaburra bookends, circa 1930, each modelled with a kookaburra sitting on a sculpted tree trunk, tan, brown, yellow, green, grey and black glaze, 4.57 in. high, 3.74 in. wide, 2.95 in. deep, Other Notes, Grace Seccombe was born…

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A pair of Japanese replica bookends, circa 1930, in the style…
Japanese Kookaburra Bookends with High Gloss Glaze

A pair of Japanese replica bookends, circa 1930, in the style of Grace Seccombe, each modelled as a kookaburra sitting on a gum tree stump, with a blue, ochre, tan, cream and chocolate high gloss glaze, 5.71 in. high, 4.13 in. wide, 3.54 in. deep

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Grace Seccombe (Australian), two koala bookends, both with…
Koala Bookends by Grace Seccombe

Grace Seccombe (Australian), two koala bookends, both with incised signatures and worn paper labels, 4.72 in. height

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Grace Seccombe, 1880-1956, pair of blue wren bookends, circa…
Grace Seccombe Blue Wren Bookends

Grace Seccombe, 1880-1956, pair of blue wren bookends, circa 1945, glazed earthenware, each realistically modelled as a bird perched on a naturalistic ground, each inscribed 'Grace Seccombe / Australia, 3.94 in. wide, 5.31 in. high, 3.15 in. deep

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A pair of Australian glazed earthenware koala bookends by Grace…
Australian Glazed Earthenware Koala Bookends by Grace Seccombe

A pair of Australian glazed earthenware koala bookends by Grace Seccombe (1880-1956), inscribed 'Grace Seccombe NSW, 5.51 in. high

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Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of rare glazed earthenware…
Grace Seccombe Blue Wren Bookends

Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of rare glazed earthenware blue wren bookends, inscised Grace Seccombe Australia, 5.12 in. high

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Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware…
Grace Seccombe Kookaburra Bookends

Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware kookaburra bookends, inscribed Grace Seccombe, 5.51 in. high

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Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware…
Glazed kookaburra bookends by Grace Seccombe

Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware kookaburra bookends, 4.72 in. high

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Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware koala…
Glazed koala bookends by Grace Seccombe

Grace Seccombe (1880-1956). A pair of glazed earthenware koala decorated bookends, incised Grace Seccombe, 4.92 in. high

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Grace Seccombe, a pair of kookaburra bookends, each bird seated…
Grace Seccombe Kookaburra Bookends

Grace Seccombe, a pair of kookaburra bookends, each bird seated on a tree trunk, the whole in naturalistic glazes 5.12 in. high 3.74 in. long and 2.95 in. deep. each signed Grace Seccombe in script verso

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Grace Seccombe pair of blue wren bookends signed 'Grace…
Grace Seccombe Blue Wren Bookends

Grace Seccombe pair of blue wren bookends signed 'Grace Seccombe - Australia' to the backs. Chip to one beak. Height 5.12 in.

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