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Enquiry about object: 8972
Indo-Portuguese Bezoar Stone with Silver Mounts & Chain
India, probably Goa, & possibly Ottoman Turkey circa 1700
overall length: 10.1cm, width of stone: 2.9cm, weight: 11g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8804
Spanish Colonial Silver Chamber Pot (Lavatorio or Balde)
Spanish Colonial South America - Peru, Argentina or Bolivia 18th century
height: 12.2cm, diameter: approximately 19cm, weight: 877g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8905
Ashanti Chief’s Brass-Covered Asipim Chair
Ashanti (Asante) People, Ghana 19th century
width: 50.2cm, height: 93.4cm, depth (seat only, excluding the inclining back-rest): 47cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8938
Dutch Colonial Batavian Silver Filigree Box
Dutch East Indies (Batavia) or India 18th century
height: 3.1cm, width: 7.2cm, depth: 5.3cm, weight: 105g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8886
Carved Wooden Portrait of a Young Balinese Man
Bali, Indonesia circa 1930
height: approximately 25cm, width: 23cm, depth: approximately 16cm, weight: 2,547g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8752
Pair of Kutch Indian Silver Cormorant Rosewater Sprinklers
Kutch, India circa 1890
height: 29.5cm, width 7.8cm, combined weight: 574g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8698
South American Colonial Silver Bowl Chased with Cacao Pods
Colonial South America 18th-19th century
width: 16.8cm, height: 10.8cm, weight: 429g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8611
Fine, Brisé-style Chinese Silver-Gilt Filigree Fan
Guangdong (Canton), China circa 1830
length of arm: 21cm, width of arm: 2.5cm, width of unfolded fan: 35cm, weight: 185g
Provenance
UK art matrket
Enquiry about object: 8608
Dutch Colonial Ebony & Silver Betel Box
Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) first half of the 18th century
width: 14.8cm, height: 7cm, depth: 10.5cm, weight: 528g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8739
Chinese Carved Mother-of-Pearl Shell
China 19th century
width: 20.6cm, length: 16cm, weight: 138g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8639
Colonial Indian Silver Cup by Pittar & Co.
Calcutta, India 1831-1848
height: 11.5cm, width: 8.5cm, depth (including handle): 11.4cm, weight: 265g
Provenance
private collection, England
Enquiry about object: 7169
Ovimbundu Colonial Portuguese Female Head Privilege Sceptre or Staff
Ovimbundu People, Benguela, Angola 19th century
length: 82.5cmm, width: 8.5cm, weight: 941g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 7198
Indo-Portuguese Parcel-Gilt Silver Bezoar Stone Box
West India, probably Gujarat or Goa circa 1700
height: 6cm, diameter: 4.5cm, weight: 45g
Enquiry about object: 4230
Carved Steatite Female Nomoli Figure
Sierra Leone 15th century or earlier
height: 21cm, width: 8.5cm, weight: 1,645g
Provenance
Estate Collection of Seward Kennedy, London, UK.
Enquiry about object: 7098
Kangxi Chinese Porcelain Snuff Bottle with Indian (or Related) Engraved Silver Mounts
China & India or similar Kangxi Dynasty, 17th-18th century
height: 9.6cm, width: 3.8cm, weight: 51g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7115
Silver Filigree Incense Burner (Sahumador) Modelled as a Turkey & set with Coral
Peru, probably Ayucucho circa 1800
width: 15cm, depth: 14cm, height: 17cm, weight: 576g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6997
Unusual Kashmir Silver Cobra Candlesticks
Kashmir, India circa 1880
width: 7cm, height: 18.1cm, combined weight: 354g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6734
Dutch Colonial Tortoiseshell Snuff Box with Silver Filigree & Enamel
Dutch Colonial - Batavia, Dutch East Indies, or China 18th century
width: 7.4cm, depth: 5cm, height: 3.1cm, weight: 56g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6716
Dutch Colonial Carved Ebony Bible Box
Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 18th century
width: 23.2cm, depth: 16.1cm, height: 7.5cm, weight: 780g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6765
Fine Dutch Colonial Batavian Silver Filigree Box & Cover
Dutch East Indies, Batavia or West Coast of Sumatra circa 1700
width: 9.8cm, height: approximately 5.9cm, weight: 276g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6578
Dutch Colonial Silver Betel Box & Key
Dutch East Indies, probably Batavia 18th century
width: 14.7cm, depth: 9.9cm, height: 6cm, weight: 586g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6728
Historically Important Colonial Silver Standing Cup Relating to the British Conquest of Java, 1811, Inscribed & Dated
colonial silversmith either in India, probably Calcutta, or Batavia, East Indies. circa 1810
height: approximately 55cm, width: 38.5cm, depth: 26cm, weight: 5,550g
Provenance
Collection of Julian Sands (UK); previously sold at Sotheby's London, 1991.
Enquiry about object: 6611
Portuguese-Thai Lacquered Box with Braganza Cross Mother-of-Pearl & Glass Inlay
Thailand, probably Ayutthaya, & Portugal 17th-18th century
length: 26.6cm, depth: 14.8cm, height: 13.2cm, weight: 936g
Provenance
Portuguese art market
Enquiry about object: 6582
Colonial Indian Silver Marrow Spoon or Scoop by Hamilton & Co.
Calcutta, India circa 1820
length: 25.5g, weight: 76g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6461
Colonial Indian Fine, Engraved Silver Goblet
Lucknow, India circa 1880
diameter: 7.1cm, height: 14.9cm, weight: 204g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6528
Exceptional Dutch Colonial Tortoiseshell Betel Box with Fine Silver Mounts
Dutch Colonial East Indies, either Malay, Sumatra or Batavia (Indonesia today) 18th century
height: 8.1cm, length: 19cm, depth: 13.3cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5656
Rare Gujarati Silk Trade Shawl with Rare Tax Stamps
Gujarat, Western India late 18th century
152.5cm x 151cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6389
Rare, Indo-Portuguese Ceremonial Gilded Silver Filigree Flower Basket
Indo-Portuguese Goa, India second half of the 17th century
height: 10.2cm, diameter: 6.6cm, weight: 136g
Provenance
previously in a private house, Bangkok, Thailand
Enquiry about object: 6199
Spanish Colonial Silver Stirrup
Spanish Colonial Alto Peru 18th century
height: 18cm, width: 13.3cm, depth: 13.4cm, weight: 732g
Provenance
London art market, previously acquired in Ghent, Belgium
Enquiry about object: 6144
Colonial Spanish Powder Flask (Yesquero)
Colonial Spanish, Argentina 19th century
length: 7cm (not taking into account the curve), weight: 27.59g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6015
Colonial Indian Silver Mug by Hamilton & Co.
Calcutta, India circa 1850
height: 12.5cm, diameter of mouth: 8cm, weight: 242g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5988
Fine, Colonial South American Silver Toothpick Holder
Peru or Bolivia, Colonial South America 18th century
height: 11.8cm, weight: 124g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 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.
Enquiry about object: 5671
Kangxi Chinese Porcelain Flask with Indian (or Similar) Engraved Silver Mounts
China & India or similar Kangxi Dynasty, 17th-18th century
height: 9.6cm, weight: 66.8g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 5533
Dutch Colonial Silver Betel Box
Dutch East Indies, probably Batavia 18th century
length: 17.7cm, height: 7.1cm, depth: 12.3cm, weight: 975g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5254
Colonial Indian Silver Mug
India, probably Calcutta circa 1840
height: 9.2cm, weight: 172g
Provenance
private collection, Channel Islands.
Enquiry about object: 5038
Pair of Colonial Carved Wooden, Iron & Leather Stirrups
Mexico or Chile 18th-19th century
height of wooden section of each stirrup: 25cm, width: 22cm, depth: 15.5cm, length of leather strap: 38cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 5089
Rare Indian Coco-de-Mer Ewer
Northern India Circa 17th century
height: 45cm, width: 25cm, thickness: 18cm, weight: 3,070g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3762
Portrait of Nasir-ud-Din Haidar Shah, the second Nawab of Oudh (r. 1827-37) in Original Brass Frame
Lucknow, India circa 1840
height of frame: 25cm, width: 20cm, height of image: 15cm
Provenance
UK art market.
Enquiry about object: 4796
Silver Filigree Incense Burner (Sahumador) Modelled as a Turkey
Peru, probably Ayucucho circa 1820
height: 14.6cm, depth: 15.6cm, weight: 564g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4577
Unusually Large Chased Silver Christian Cross
Sri Lanka 19th-early 20th century
height: 11.8cm, width: 6.6cm, weight: 39g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4516
Carved Wooden Prestige Sceptre
Ovimbundu People, Angola 19th century
length: 55cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4078
Rare Agate Box with Chased Silver Mounts
India, perhaps Goa circa 1700
height: 13.3cm, length: 14cm, depth: 10.1cm, weight: 1,127g
Provenance
UK art market; European collection.
Enquiry about object: 4240
Chased Silver Lidded Box with Gujarati Inscription
India 18th-19th century
length: 11.9cm, height: 6cm, width: 8.5cm, weight: 332g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 4052
Unusually Large, Silver Filigree Betel Box
Dutch East Indies, or possibly India circa 1700
length: 22.3cm, width: 16cm, height: 10cm, weight: 1,675g
Provenance
Private London collection (estate)
Enquiry about object: 3791
Dutch Colonial Betel Box of Amboyna Wood & Pierced Silver Mounts
Batavia, Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) 18th century
height: 9cm, length: 19.5cm, depth: 13.5cm
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 3785
Engraved Reliquary Silver Cross
Spain or Portugal 17th century
height: 9.4cm, with: 6.5cm, thickness: 0.7cm, weight: 26g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3859
Spanish Colonial Silver Candlestick
Spanish Colonial South America, probably Peru 17th-18th century
height: 24cm, diameter: 15.3cm, weight: 618g
Provenance
Acquired in the UK, from the estate collection of Dr George Yuille Caldwell (1924-2016). Dr Caldwell, an English-born physician spent much of his professional life practicing in Singapore. He amassed a large collection of Chinese jade, porcelain and ethnographica during that time.
Enquiry about object: 3616
Tortoiseshell Box with Fitted Compartments & Gilded Mounts
Galle District, Sri Lanka circa 1870
length: 19cm, depth: 14.3cm, height: 7cm, weight: 608g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3520
Dutch Colonial Silver Filigree Heart-Shaped Box
Dutch East Indies, possibly Batavia or Sumatra 18th century
length: 7cm, width: 5.5cm, height: 2.5cm, weight: 91g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3173
Sri Lankan Carved Ebony Box
Galle, Sri Lanka circa 1800
height: 10.3cm, length: 27.3cm, depth: 19cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3229
Colonial Batavian Silver & Gilt Betel Box Set
Batavia, Dutch East Indies early 19th century
length of box: 21.3cm, depth: 13.6cm, height: 7cm, combined weight: 1,159g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3007
Carved Colonial Bone Infant Jesus
India, probably Goa 18th century
length: 8cm height: 3.5cm
Provenance
UK art market; most probably the item has been in the UK since colonial times.
Enquiry about object: 3099
Colonial Indian Chinese-Style Silver Tray
Karachi, India/Pakistan circa 1910
length: 38.8cm, width: 24cm, weight: 615g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 2931
Colonial Indian Trichinopoly Silver 24-Piece Cutlery Set
Trichinopoly, South India & London circa 1870
length of knife: 22cm, length of fork: 18cm, typical weight of one fork: 63g, typical weight of one knife: 73g, length of box: 31.5cm, width of box: 26.4cm, thickness of box: 7.7cm
Provenance
private UK collection
Enquiry about object: 2212
The Calcutta Memento Cup by Dass & Dutt
Calcutta, India circa 1870
height: 44cm, weight: 1,464g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 2214
Regimental Indian Silver Table Lighter by Hamilton & Co.
33rd Duke of Wellington Regiment, India dated 1873
height: 13cm, width: 15.5cm, weight: 392g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 1843
Colonial Indian Silver Brandy Warmer by Lattey Brothers & Co.
Calcutta, India 1843-1855
length: 19cm, weight: 254g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 1547
Spanish Colonial Silver Mate Cup & Stand
Argentina 18th-19th century
height: 14cm, weight: 290g
Provenance
European private collection
Enquiry about object: 1591
Colonial Sri Lankan Settee
Galle District, Sri Lanka circa 1840
length: 135cm, height: 80cm, depth: 61cm
Provenance
from a collection in southern England.
Enquiry about object: 1671
Large, Colonial Spanish Twin-Handled Serving Dish
Colonial Spanish South America, probably Argentina 18th century
length: 46cm (with handles extended), width: 25.5cm, height: 5.5cm, weight: 854g
Provenance
European private collection
Enquiry about object: 1679
Spanish Colonial Silver Mate Cup & Stand
Bolivia late 18th century
height: 16cm, weight: 287g
Provenance
European private collection
Enquiry about object: 1712
Massive Dutch Colonial Sri Lankan Ebony-Inlaid Teak Document Box
Dutch Colonial Sri Lanka late 17th-18th century
length: 72cm, depth: 51cm, height: 15.5cm
Provenance
The Lairds of Blair, Blair Castle, Scotland.
Enquiry about object: 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
Enquiry about object: 1716
Dutch Colonial Amboyna Wood & Red Lacquer Betel Box with Silver Mounts
Batavia, Dutch East Indies late 17th-early 18th century
height: 8.8cm, length: 20cm, depth: 14.5cm, weight: 794g
Provenance
collection of Paul Walter; Spink, London
Enquiry about object: 1813
Large, Chinese-Export Carved Mother-of-Pearl Snuff Box Depicting Napoleon’s Tomb, with Silver Mounts
Canton, China circa 1820
diameter: 9.2cm, thickness: 3cm, weight: 277g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 1101
Spanish Colonial Tooled Leather & Wood Chest with Iron Fittings (Petaca)
Peru late 17th century
length: 50cm, width: 39cm, height: 28cm
Provenance
UK art market.