New Items for January-February 2019

Showcased here are our additions to our stock for January-February 2019.

Items from India, Burma, Ethiopia, Malaysia, Indonesia, Yemen & Sierra Leone are included.

All items are for sale. We price in pounds only, but USD approximates also are provided.

Click on the links below to see more details, video footage, and images of each piece.

The video footage is not to show details (the photographs are for that) but simply to show the relative size of each item.

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5773

Extremely Rare Mughal Chased Silver Ewer

North India
17th century

height: 10.cm, weight: 413g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

4872

Collection of 145 Ethiopian Silver Crosses (Yangat Masqal)

Ethiopia
19th-early 20th century

approximate total combined weight: 2.2kg

Provenance

private collection, UK.

5812

Shan Burmese Seated Jambupati Buddha

Burma
17th-18th century

height: 30.2cm, width: 13.8cm, weight: 2,221g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

4832

Madras Colonial Indian Silver Water Pot Lota

Madras, South India
circa 1890

height: 9cm, weight: 141g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

5562

Colonial Satinwood Box with Pierced Silver Mounts

Colonial Jamaica
18th century

length: 25cm, depth: 16.1cm, height: 10cm

Provenance

UK art market; the Lawrence Family of Wiltshire, England, and Jamaica.

4844

Parsi Embroidered Vest (Jhabla)

Parsi (Parsee) community of Bombay, India.
19th century

height: 64cm, width: 57cm

Provenance

from the family collection of a Parsi family based in northern England but originally from Bombay, India.

4933

Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Engraved Silver Flask

Ethiopia
probably 19th century

height: 16cm, weight: 422g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London

4843

Large Parsi Embroidered Vest (Jhabla)

Parsi (Parsee) community of Bombay, India.
19th century

height: 64cm, width: 64.5cm

Sold

Provenance

from the family collection of a Parsi family based in northern England but originally from Bombay, India.

5291

Unusually Long, Yemeni Woven Silver Wire Belt with Parcel Gilding

northern Hadramaut, Yemen
early 20th century

length: 258cm, weight: 671g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

4229

Carved Steatite Nomori Figure

Sierra Leone
15th century or earlier

height: 11cm, weight: 468g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London.

5188

Indian Gold & Pearl Nose Ring (Nath)

India, probably Rajasthan
circa 1900

width: 3.5cm, weight: 6.22g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK.

5365

Fine Malay Kris with Carved Hilt & Inscribed Silver Mounted Scabbard

Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 45cm, weight: 336g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

4923

Malay Kris Panjang with Chased Silver Mounts & Pierced Hilt

Malay Peninsula
18th-19th century

length: 50.5cm, weight: 416g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

4922

Malay Kris Panjang with Chased Silver Mounts & Pierced Hilt

Malay Peninsula
18th-19th century

length: 42.5cm,weight: 443g

Provenance

UK art market

4819

Fine Karo Batak Piso Andar Andar Sword with Gold Suasa & Silver Mounts

West Karo Batak People, North Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 55.5cm, weight: 396g

Provenance

private collection, UK.

4818

Sulawesi Badek with Engraved Silver Mounts

Sulawesi, Indonesia
early 20th century

length: 28.5cm, weight: 290g

Provenance

private collection, UK.

3244

Silver-Mounted Sewar Dagger

Malay people, Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 33cm, weight: 178g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

2718

Early Madurese Kris with Marine Tusk Hilt & Gold Mendak

Madura, Indonesia
17th century & later

length: 46cm, weight: 277g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

2717

Early Malay Kris Perkaka with Ivory Hilt

Northern Malay Peninsula
16th century & later

length: 46cm, weight: 272g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK

Selected Available Items from Past Catalogues

3375

Balinese Silver-Mounted Ritual Knife (Suddha-Mala)

Bali, Indonesia
19th-early 20th century

length: 28cm, width of blade at widest point: 3.8cm, weight: 162g

Provenance

UK art market

1988

Ceremonial Fijian Wooden Four-Tined ‘Cannibal’ Fork

Fiji
early 19th century

length: 24.6cm

Sold

Provenance

private collection, Guernsey.

5472

Indian Enamelled Gold Earrings with Emeralds & Pearls

India
19th century

length: 2.7cm, combined wight: 4.98g

Provenance

UK art market

1948

Fine Malay Sewar Dagger with Pierced Hippopotamus Tooth & Gold, Silver & Horn Mounts

Sumatra/Malay Peninsula
19th century

length: 28cm, weight: 129g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London

5627

Fine, Gold Marriage Pendant

Tamil Nadu, South India
19th century

length: 5.1cm, weight: 5.86g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK.

2478

South Indian Ruby-Set Gold Covered Sri Yantra to Adorn a Temple Statue

South India
circa 17th-18th century or earlier

height: 3.5cm, diameter: 5cm, weight: 44g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK

5137

Gold Parsi (Parsee) Portrait Brooch set with Fifty Diamonds, & another Portrait

Bombay, India
19th century

diamond brooch: 3.4cm x 2.8cm, unmounted portrait: 2.8cm x 2.4cm

Provenance

from a Parsi family, originally from Bombay, and now based in northern England. The identities of the men featured in the portraits are unknown however.

3152

Sri Lankan Chased Silver Tray

Kandy, Sri Lanka
circa 1900

length: 28.4cm, width: 18cm, weight: 279g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

1714

Rare Colonial Indian Carved Croquet Mallet with Chased Silver Mounts

Bombay, India
19th century

length: 86cm, width of head: 14.8cm

Provenance

UK art market

2777

Tibetan or Himalayan Silver & Copper Tea Pot

Tibet or Himalayan India
19th century

length: 31.5cm, width: 23.5cm, weight: 1,058g

Sold

Provenance

Scottish art market

4250

Rare Burmese Shwezawa Lacquer Chest

Burma
19th century

height: 19.5cm, length: 43.6cm, depth: 33cm

Provenance

private collection, London; acquired by the previous owner in the UK decades ago, and probably has been in the UK since the colonial era.