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Tibetan Gilded Bronze Mahakala
Tibet 15th century
height: 14cm, width: 10.5cm, weight: 701g
Provenance
UK art market
Tall Indian Bronze Figure of a Standing Jain Tirthankhara
South India 17th century
height without stand: 26cm, with stand: 28cm
Provenance
private collection, The Netherlands
Rare Javanese Cast Metal Mold for Making Votive Plaques
Java, Indonesia 8th-9th century
height: 8.7cm, width: 7cm, thickness: 1.1cm, weight: 503g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Fine Indian Mughal Gold & Gem-Set White Nephrite Jade Pendant (Haldili)
North India 18th-19th century
length: 4.6cm, height: 3.5cm, weight: 17.47g
Provenance
UK art market
Fine Pende Chief’s Hippopotamus Tooth Amulet Pendant (Gikhokho)
Pende People, Congo early 19th century
length: 6cm, width: 4cm
Provenance
private collection, London; and acquired by the previous owner in London in the 1960s.
Silver & Goat Skin Headdress (Shabka) & Leather Face Mask (Burka)
Oman, probably Ibri Region 19th-early 20th century
height with stand: 32cm
Provenance
UK art market
Indian Enamelled Gold Earrings with Emeralds & Pearls
India 19th century
length: 2.7cm, combined wight: 4.98g
Provenance
UK art market
Mughal Talismanic Nephrite Amulet Pendant Carved with Koranic Verses
North India circa 17th-18th century
width: 4.2cm, height: 3.3cm, weight: 15.34g
Provenance
private collection, London.
Serpentine & Silver Ewer inset with Coral, Turquoise & Garnets
Sino-Himalayan or Mongolia circa 1860
length: 18cm, height: 15.5cm, weight: 556g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Batavian Colonial Silver Filigree Tray or Platter
Dutch East Indies, probably Batavia; and possibly India 17th-18th century
length: 42.7cm, width: 24.5cm, height: 3.7cm, weight: 957g
Provenance
UK art market
Unusually Large, Multiple-Strand Naga Blue Glass Bead Necklace
Naga People, India/Burma circa 1900
length: 70cm, weight: 724g
Provenance
UK art market; undoubtedly, the necklace has been in the UK since the colonial era.
Dayak Man’s Ear Ornament (Sabau) of Carved Hornbill Casque (Beak)
Kenyah/Kayan Dayak People, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia 19th-early 20th century
height: 4.6cm, length: 10cm, width: 4.2cm, weight: 26.36g
Provenance
Acquired in the UK, from the estate collection of Dr George Yuille Caldwell (1924-2016). Dr Caldwell, an English-born physician moved to Singapore in the 1950s, from where he built up a collection of mostly Borneo-related textiles and other ethnographica.
Fine Pair of Champleve Enamel Silver Anklets (Jhanhjar)
Punjab, India/Pakistan 19th century
approximate outer diameter of each: 12.6cm, combined weight: 522g
Provenance
UK art market
Indian Chased Silver Makara Bracelet
Madras, South India circa 1880
internal diameter at widest point: 5.7cm, weight: 65g
Provenance
UK art market
Extremely Rare ‘Brown & Gold’ Straits Chinese Wedding Dress & Hat Box
Straits Settlements, probably Singapore circa 1900
length: 49cm, height: 53cm, depth: 34cm
Provenance
collected by Alwyn Sidney Haynes (1878-1963), and thence by descent. Haynes was a colonial administrator in Malaya and the Straits Settlements between 1901 and 1934. He held many posts including Acting British Resident, Pahang (1924); British Resident, Perak (1925); British Advisor, Kedah (1925); British Advisor, Kelantan (1930); and Acting Colonial Administrator, Straits Settlements (1933), after which he retired and returned to England, and lived near Stratford-upon-Avon, and then in Leamington Spa. Haynes loaned some of the items he collected in Malaya to the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford in 1939. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1950.
Rare Ibis-form Holy Water Container
North Central India 18th century or earlier
height: 15.8cm, weight: 268g
Provenance
private collection, London
Armenian Enamelled & Filigree Silver Holy Altar Box
Armenia/Ottoman Turkey 18th-19th century
length: 7cm, width: 5.3cm, height: 2.6cm, weight: 61.45g
Provenance
UK art market
Senufo Carved Wooden Face Mask (Kpelie)
Senufo People, Ivory Coast circa 1920
length: 39cm, width: 16cm
Provenance
private collection, London; acquired in Europe in the 1970s.
Colonial Indian Silver Mug
India, probably Calcutta circa 1840
height: 9.2cm, weight: 172g
Provenance
private collection, Channel Islands.
Tibetan Longevity Vase (Tseybum) with Chased Silver Mounts
Tibet 19th century
height: 24.3cm
Provenance
UK art market
Tibetan Water Ewer with Chased Silver Mounts (Bumpa or Laybum)
Tibet 19th century
height: 24.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Mounted Malay Ivory Kris Hilt
Malay People, Northern Malaysia 19th century
length (without stand): 7.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Silver ‘Prostitute’s’ ‘Bolt’ Bracelet (Swar)
Aulad Nail, Algeria 19th century
internal diameter: 6.3cm, height: 4.5cm, weight: 175g
Provenance
UK art market
Javanese Necklace of Early Gold Beads
Central Java, Indonesia Early Classical Period, 8th century
length: 65.3cm weight: 37.7g
Provenance
private collection, London.
Indonesian Gold Finger Ring Engraved with Sacred Sri Symbols
Java, Indonesia circa 9th century
outer diameter: 2.7cm, weight: 21.32g, ring size: P (UK), 7 3/4 (US)
Provenance
from the estate of a Dutch woman who lived in Indonesia until 1975 and who acquired the ring in the decades prior to that.
Three Burmese Silver & Ivory Betel Knives
Shan People, Eastern Burma 19th and early 20th centuries
lengths: 11.8cm, 17.2cm and 23.3cm
Provenance
UK art market
Ottoman Bronze Mortar
Caucasus, Armenia or Ottoman Turkey circa 16th-17th century
height: 8.4cm, diameter: 10,5cm, weight: 815g
Provenance
UK art market
Tibetan Iron Beer (Chhaang) Flask Overlaid with Silver
Chamdo, Eastern Tibet 18th century
height: 37cm, width: 27cm, thickness; 11.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Egyptian Engraved Silver Bride’s Ring
Berber People, Amun Siwa Region, Egypt early 20th century
diameter of bezel: 7cm, weight: 58.42g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Sri Lankan Brass Model of a Kandyan Noble
Sri Lanka 19th century
height: 26cm, weight: 1,364g
Provenance
UK art market
Bontoc Wood, Rattan & Pig Tusk Armband (Baningal or Abkil)
Bontoc or Ifugao People, Northern Luzon, Philippines 19th–early 20th century
diameter: 10.2cm, height: 6cm
Provenance
private European collection.
Two Inscribed Indian Silver Bracelets
Gujarat, India circa 1900
width at widest point of larger example: 9.7cm, smaller example: 8.6cm, combined weight: 266g
Provenance
Collection of the late Paul Walter, New York, probably acquired in London.
Pair of Indian Silver Anklets
Rajasthan, India circa 1900
diameter of each (approx.): 11cm, combined weight: 270g
Provenance
Collection of the late Paul Walter, New York, probably acquired in London; Christie's New York.
Pair of Indian Silver Anklets
Rajasthan or Maharashtra, India circa 1900
approximate diameter of each: 10.5cm, combined weight: 626g
Provenance
Collection of the late Paul Walter, New York, probably acquired in London.
Pair of Indian Silver Anklets
Rajasthan or Maharashtra, India circa 1900
approximate diameter of each: 10cm, height: 4.3cm, combined weight: 866g
Provenance
Collection of the late Paul Walter, New York, probably acquired in London.
Omani Silver Amulet Box (Hirz) & Necklace with Applied Gold Plaques
Oman circa 1900
total hanging length: 45cm, approximate length of chain: 60cm, length of amulet box: 9.2cm, weight: 330g
Provenance
UK art market
Pair of Indian Bronze Male Dancer’s Anklets
Northern India 18th century
diameter: 10.3cm, height: 3.2cm, combined weight: 1,039g
Provenance
UK art market
Indian Gold & Pearl Nose Ring (Nath)
India, probably Rajasthan circa 1900
width: 3.3cm, weight: 5.05g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Pair of Indian Silver Earrings (Balti Bali)
Kashmir & Jammu, Northern India early 20th century
width: 3.2cm: combined wight: 13.12g
Provenance
Collection of the late Paul Walter, New York, probably acquired in London.