March 2021 Catalogue
We are delighted to present here another curated collection of 50 items from our stock - items are from the Asian, Tribal & Cross-border Trade spheres of collecting.
Each item has an edge; something unique that sets it apart - a history and a story that connects us to the artisan who made it.
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Chased & Gilded Mughal Pandan Tray inset with Turquoise-Coloured Cabochon Stones
Northern India circa 1750
length (including handles): 35.4cm, width: 22cm, height: 6cm, weight: 726g
Provenance
UK art market
Malay Earthenware Water Flask with Silver Mounts (Labu Ayer)
Malay People, Perak, Malay Peninsula late 19th or early 20th century
height: 30cm, diameter: 18cm, weight: 1,056g
Provenance
UK art market
Katawaz Gilded Silver & Glass Trade Bead Ear Ornaments
Katawaz People, Katawaz Basin, Afghanistan-Pakistan Border Area 19th century
heights: 11.5cm, widths: 7.4cm, combined weight: 155g
Provenance
UK art market
Four Burmese Carved Wooden Standing Disciple-Monks
Burma late 19th-early 20th century
heights: ranging from 93cm (102cm with stand) to 125cm (134cm with stand); depth of each stand: 24cm, widths: 27cm
Provenance
private collection, UK. Possibly brought back to the UK around 1920.
Himalayan Carved Wooden Mask
Himalayan India - Northern Bengal or Himchal Pradesh 18th-19th century
height: 22cm, width: 13.6cm
Provenance
UK art market
Nepalese Pair of Woman’s Gold Earrings (Chepti Sun)
Nepal mid-19th century
diameters: 6cm, combined weight: 22.7g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Rare Fossilised Palmwood (Pumtek) Bead Necklace
Pyu Kingdom, Burma, China People, Western Burma & Mizo People, Eastern India circa 10th century
length: 76cm, weight: 93g
Provenance
private collection, London.
Indian Three-Piece Silver Tea Set in the Form of Ducks
India circa 1890
length of teapot: 21.5cm, height: 16.5cm, weight of teapot: 646g, weight (combined): 1,244g
Provenance
UK art market
Khmer-Thai Earthenware Storage Jar
North-Eastern Thailand circa 12th century
height: 25cm; diameter at widest point: 23cm (approx.)
Provenance
UK art market
Ottoman Armenian Woman’s Wooden Stilted Clogs (Qabqab) with Engraved Silver Mounts
Armenian People, Ottoman Turkey 19th century
length: 24cm, height: 12.5cm
Provenance
from the collection of the family of John Lee, Baron Lee of Trafford, Bowdon Old Hall, Cheshire, UK. The family of Lord Lee has occupied Bowdon Old Hall since 1919 and the clogs formed part of the contents of the house. The wife of Baron Lee is of Armenian descent.
Unusual Enamelled, Pierced, Chinese Export Silver Bowl by Wang Hing, with Original Glass Liner
Guangdong (Canton) & Hong Kong, China circa 1880
diameter: 12.5cm, height: 5.5cm, weight (without glass): 128g, weight (with glass): 366g
Provenance
UK art market
Sri Lankan Tortoiseshell Betel Box with Engraved, Parcel-gilt Silver Mounts
Sri Lanka late 18th century
length: 16cm, width: 12cm, height: 5.2cm, weight: 305g
Provenance
UK art market
Mughal or Deccan Silver Plate (Thali)
Mughal or Deccan India early 18th century
diameter: 21.2 cm, weight: 242g
Provenance
UK art market
Mughal Green Glass Rosewater Sprinkler
Gujarat, India or Europe for the Indian Market 18th-early 19th century
height: 18.8cm
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Liao Dynasty Gilded Silver Dragon Fish-Shaped Earrings
China Liao Dynasty, 10-12th century
width: 3.5cm, height: 3.5cm combined weight: 11g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Tibetan Bronze Image of Vajra Yogini
Tibet 18th century
height: 6.2cm, width: 4.7cm, weight: 79g
Provenance
private collection, London
Rare Colonial South American Allegorical Emerald & Diamond Pendant
Spanish Colonial or Spain 17th-18th century
height: 5.2cm, width: 3.5cm, weight: 28g
Provenance
UK art market
Tibetan Silver, Coral & Turquoise Earrings (Along)
Tibet late 19th century-early 20th century
height: 8.5cm, combined weight: 70g
Provenance
UK art market
Dutch Colonial Ivory Box with Silver Mounts
Batavia, Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) 18th century
length: 13.9cm, depth: 6.9cm, height: 4.3cm
Provenance
UK art market
Sumatran Silver-Mounted Klewang
South Sumatra, Indonesia 19th century
length: 30cm, weight: 158g
Provenance
UK art market
Large, Rare Ottoman Embroidered Ceremonial Metal-Thread & Purple Velvet Circular Sinni Tray or Table Cover (Sofra Bezi)
Ottoman Turkey, probably Istanbul 18th-19th century
diameter: 84cm
Provenance
UK art market
Two Very Rare Parcel-Gilded ‘Cadogan’ Style Copper & Silver Ritual Wine Ewers
Nepal 18th-19th century
height: 12.5cm & 13cm; width: 16cm & 17.5cm; weight: 270g & 284g
Provenance
UK art market
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.
Five Chinese Enamelled Hanging Ornaments
China circa 1850
lengths: 65cm-98cm
Provenance
UK art market
Three Ming Dynasty Carved Wooden Daoist Figures with Polychrome
China Reign of Zhengde (1505–1521)
heights: each approx. 29.5cm
Provenance
private collection, London.
Chinese Scholar’s Mounted Lingzhi Fungus
China 19th century
height: 14.5cm, width: 14cm
Provenance
UK art market
Lampung Woman’s Ceremonial Skirt (Tapis Balak)
Abung People, Lampung, South Sumatra, Indonesia circa 1920
length: 118cm, width: 61cm (these are the dimensions for one side of the double-sided skirt)
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 Indonesian textiles and other ethnographica.
Framed, Indian Kutch Silk Embroidered Linen Panel, ex-Lehman Brothers
Kutch, Northern India 19th century
dimensions: 57cm x 58cm
Provenance
Lehman Brothers Corporate Collection - the textile was part of the bank's corporate collection prior to its collapse in 2008, and was sold at Christie's in the aftermath of the collapse.
Unusual Parsi Embroidered Silk Purse
Gujarat, Northern India mid-20th century
length: 21.7cm, height: 15cm
Provenance
from the family collection of a Parsi family based in northern England but originally from Bombay, India.
Maori Curved Nephrite Ear Ornament (Kapeu)
Maori People, New Zealand early 20th century
length: 15.2cm, weight: 38.19g
Provenance
UK art market
Unusually Large Chased Silver Christian Cross
Sri Lanka 19th-early 20th century
height: 11.8cm, width: 6.6cm, weight: 39g
Provenance
UK art market
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
Provenance
UK private collection
Mughal Scribe’s Silver Pen Box (Kalamdan)
Mughal, Northern India 18th century
length: 25cm, depth: 7.7cm, height: 7.1cm, weight: 1,193g
Provenance
Private Collection, England.
Pair of Bhuta Cow Figures (Nandigona)
Karnataka, India 19th century
lengths; 21cm, heights: 11.6cm, combined weights: 2,244g
Provenance
UK art market
Necklace of Manabi Terracotta Spindle Whorls
Pre-Colombian Manabi Culture, Ecuador 500BC-500AD
length: 68cm, weight: 104g
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 superb collection of ethnographica.
Omani Silver Amulet Box (Hirz) & Necklace with Applied Gold Plaques
Nizwa, Oman circa 1900
length of necklace as worn: 37cm, length of box: 10cm, height of box: 6.7cm, thickness: 0.9cm, weight: 170g
Provenance
UK art market
South Indian Toda Silver Woman’s Necklace
Toda People, Nilgiri Hills, Tamil Nadu, South India 19th century
total length (or circumference as worn): 50.5cm, weight: 175g
Provenance
Christie's, New York; private collection, UK.
Indonesian Engraved Silver Betel/Tobacco Box with Engraved Gold Plaque
Sumatra, Indonesia 18th-19th century
length: 10.4cm, width: 4.8cm, height: 4.1cm, weight: 147g
Provenance
private collection
Carved Wooden Cockspur Case with Iron Spur
Lombok, Indonesia 19th-early 20th century
height: 19.8cm, width when closed: 8.4cm
Provenance
Collection of Henry Brownrigg, London, UK.
Burmese Buddha Dipankara with Followers & Sumedha
Burma 18th century
Length: 16 cm
Provenance
UK art market
Laos Cast Bronze Seated Buddha
Laos circa 15th century
height: 37cm, width: 22.5cm, depth: 14cm
Provenance
private collection, UK. The previous owner built up a collection of Buddha images mostly from old UK colonial sources, and did so over a long lifetime.
Sino-Tibetan Cloisonné and Silver Eating Bowl
Chinese made for the Tibet Market 18th-19th century
height: 4.7cm, diameter: 11.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
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
Pair of Cast Brass Flasks made for the Malay Market
Minangkabau People, Sumatra, Indonesia late 19th century
height: 31.5 cm
Provenance
Dutch antique market
Fine, Framed Collection of Ethiopian Silver Jewellery
Ethiopia 19th & early 20th century (jewellery)
frame: 36.8cm x 26.8cm
Provenance
UK art market
Tibetan Gilded Bronze Mahakala
Tibet 15th century
height: 14cm, width: 10.5cm, weight: 701g
Provenance
UK art market
Fine Tibetan Gold & Silver Ga’u
Tibet late 19th century
height: 15cm, width: 12cm, thickness: 5.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Nigerian Carved & Painted Wooden Figurative Comb
Nigeria late 19th-early 20th century
length: 23cm, width: 8cm
Provenance
UK art market