Our catalogue > Cabinet of Curosities

We don’t sell objects so much as stories with an object attached. So here are some of the more unusual, quirky objects that we have with interesting stories.

Each piece has been sourced from within the UK, often from old, colonial-era collections.

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6356

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Rare Sanskrit-Inscribed Hindu Holy Man or Sadhu’s Libation Coconut Cup

Northern India
circa 18th century

diameter at widest point: 16.3cm, height: 5.6cm

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Provenance

private collection, London.

6357

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Sadhu or Hindu Holy Man’s Bronze Trident

Northern India
circa 18th century

length: 35.2cm, width: 13.2cm, weight: 743g

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private collection, London

6297

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Christian Silvered Crab Reliquary of St Francis Xavier

Christian Community, South India or Sri Lanka
19th century

width: 18cm, length: 17.5cm, weight: 748g

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Provenance

from the collection of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, UK.

6123

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Important Indo-Portuguese Goa Seychelles Nut Vessel with Silver Mounts

Goa, India
circa 1750

height: 28.3cm, length: 32cm, width: 13.7cm, weight: 1.295g

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Provenance

UK art market

6144

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Colonial Spanish Powder Flask (Yesquero)

Colonial Spanish, Argentina
19th century

length: 7cm (not taking into account the curve), weight: 27.59g

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Provenance

UK art market

5149

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Large Swiss Gold & Silver Filigree Pendant Crucifix

Central Switzerland
19th century

length of crucifix pendant: 16.2cm, width: 7cm, weight: 47g

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Provenance

UK art market

5928

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Unusually Tall Ottoman Woman’s Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Wooden Stilted Clogs (Qabqab)

Ottoman Turkey
19th or early 20th century

height to top of toe strap: 30cm, lengths: 22.8cm, widths: 18cm

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Provenance

UK art market

5710

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Dutch Colonial Surinamese Escaped African Slave (Maroons or Bushinengues) Wooden Stool

Maroon or Bushinengue People, Suriname, South America
19th-early 20th century

length: 40cm, height: 29cm, width: 23cm

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Provenance

private collection, London.

5631

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Fine Central Asian Moulded Gourd Container with Silver Mounts for Snuff Tobacco

Turkestan, Central Asia
19th century

length: 19.5cm, weight: 98g

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Provenance

private collection, UK.

5471

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Gilded Silver Mounted Pectoral Reliquary Cross with Carved Steatite (Enkolpia)

Mount Athos, Macedonian Greece
15th century

total length of chain (circumference as worn): 72cm, length of cross (without coin): 7.3cm, thickness of cross: 1.1cm, weight: 97g

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Provenance

UK art market

3466

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English Tavern or Publican House Willow Nine-Pin Skittles Set

West Country, England
19th century

heights (approx.) 30cm each, and 40cm for the king pin

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Provenance

UK private collection

1988

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Ceremonial Fijian Wooden Four-Tined ‘Cannibal’ Fork

Fiji
early 19th century

length: 24.6cm

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Provenance

private collection, Guernsey.

848

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Rare, Finely Carved Coconut Money Box with Silver Mounts (Alcancia)

Spanish Colonial Guatemala
18th century

height: 18cm, length: 19cm, weight: 437g

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Provenance

European antiques market.

4676

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Rare, Brass Toad-Shaped Flask

Tibet
circa 18th century

height (with stopper): 37cm

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Provenance

UK art market

3594

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Rare, Unusually Large Tridacna Clam Shell Kris Hilt

Malay People, Terengganu, Malaysia
19th century

height (without stand): 11cm, width: 11cm, weight: 302g, height with stand: 17cm

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Provenance

private collection, UK.

2896

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Rare & Unusual Ostrich Egg & Walrus Tusk Indian Tea Caddy with Silver Mounts

Kutch, India
circa 1880

height: 25cm, weight: 785g

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Provenance

UK art market

4658

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Finely Carved South Indian Nut with Silver Mounts

South India, probably Madras
circa 1800

length: 10.2cm, weight: 108g

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Provenance

UK art market

4366

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Collection of Twenty Indian Hindu Temple Bronze Body Stamps (Chhapa)

Orissa & Bengal, India
18th & 19th centuries

length of the longest: 11.2cm, diameter of largest: 8cm

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Provenance

UK art market

4032

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Carved Coco-de-Mer Sufi Mendicant’s ‘Begging’ Bowl (Kashkul)

Northern India or Iran (Persia)
18th century

length: 28cm, width: 13cm, height: 10.5cm

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Provenance

UK art market.

3933

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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

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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.

5089

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Rare Indian Coco-de-Mer Ewer

Northern India
Circa 17th century

height: 45cm, width: 25cm, thickness: 18cm, weight: 3,070g

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Provenance

UK art market

4313

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Eshu Dance Wrist Pendant

Yoruba People, Southern Egbado, Nigeria
19th century

height: 10.2cm

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Provenance

private collection, London.

5486

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Fine Pende Chief’s Hippopotamus Tooth Amulet Pendant (Gikhokho)

Pende People, Congo
early 19th century

length: 6cm, width: 4cm

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Provenance

private collection, London; and acquired by the previous owner in London in the 1960s.

3285

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Tibetan Gold & Turquoise Official’s Pendant (Sochi)

Lhasa, Tibet
19th century

length: 11.2cm, weight: 11g

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Provenance

private collection, London.

4274

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Woman’s Iron Pubic Cover (Cache Sexe)

Kirdi and Matakam People, North Cameroon
19th-early 20th century

length: 37.5cm

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Provenance

private collection, UK

4268

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Woman’s Wooden Lip Plate

Kichepo People, Sudan, & Surma People, Sudan/Ethiopia
19th-early 20th century

width: 13.5cm, length: 9.4cm, thickness: 1.6cm

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Provenance

private London collection.