NEW ITEMS FOR MAY 2022
Scroll down to see more than 30 fine, new additions to our stock for May.
Included are items from Tibet, Nepal, China, India, Burma, Indonesia, Cambodia, Solomon Islands, New Zealand (Maori), Morocco, Bukhara, Palestine & Congo.
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Enquiry about object: 8578
Nepalese Gilded Ritual Lamp (Sukunda)
Nepal 18th century
height: 28.9cm, width: approximately 14.5cm, length: 26.5cm, weight: 2,293g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8530
Unusual Colonial Parcel-Gilt Silver Filigree Box
India or the Dutch East Indies circa 1720
width: 10.7cm, depth: 10.3cm, height: 5.8cm, weight: 372g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8590
Large Maori Greenstone Hei-Tiki Pendant
Maori people, New Zealand 1600-1850
height: 12.7cm, width: 8.5cm, depth: 1.5cm, weight: 272g
Provenance
with the same private collection, southern England, since the 1960s
Enquiry about object: 8576
Early Chola Bronze Ganesh
South India early Chola period, 9th-10th century
height: 7.4cm, width: 4.8cm, depth: 3.7cm, weight: 159g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8596
Rare Chinese Export Silver Enamel & Gilt Silver Filigree Zarfs for the Ottoman Market
southern China for the Ottoman Market circa 1860
height: 5.1cm, width: 4.6cm, combined weight: 127g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7301
Moroccan Jewish Brass Shabbat Wall Lamp
Jewish Community, Northern Morocco 19th century
height: 35cm, width: 17.2cm, depth: 15cm, weight: 1,311g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8562
Nepalese Gold & Gilt Amulet Box showing the Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, & set with Precious Stones
Nepal 19th-early 20th century
width: 8.2cm, length: 7.9cm, depth: 2cm, weight: 128g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7310
Chinese Court Gold & Pearl Hat or Headdress Ornament
China 18th-19th century
height: 6.6cm, width: 5.5g, weight: 5.98g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8581
Rare Bukharan Gilded Copper (Tombak) Hookah Base or Vase
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, Central Asia 18th century
height: 36.9cm, diameter (of base): 14.4cm, weight: 1,463g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3403
Tibetan Official’s Turquoise, Pearl & Gold Ear Pendant (Sochi)
Lhasa, Tibet 19th century
length: 11.5cm, weight: 12g
Enquiry about object: 7195
Assam Brass Waist Ornaments (Benyop)
Adi-Minyong people, Assam & Arunchal Pradesh, India 18th-19th century
length (of the largest piece): 11cm, width: 9.1cm, combined weight: 598g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7295
Khmer Bronze Votive Mold of Hevajra
Khmer, Cambodia Bayon period, circa 12th century
length: 18.3cm, width: 9.8cm, weight: 425g
Provenance
Estate Collection of Tom White MBE, who served as a British diplomat in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s.
Enquiry about object: 8474
Indian Brass Virabhadra Plaque
India, probably Karnataka 18th-19th century
height: approx. 25cm
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 8566
Palestinian Woman’s Face Veil Burqa’
Bedouin People, Palestine 1880-mid-20th century
length (central line): 38.2cm, width: 29cm, weight: 744g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8512
Nepali Inscribed Ritual Bronze Skull Cup Kapala
Nepal 17th-18th century
length: 21cm, width: 16.3cm, weight: 789g
Provenance
Art market, Belgium
Enquiry about object: 8564
Early Srivijaya Bronze Standing Buddha with Gupta Influence
Srivijaya kingdom, Sumatra, Indonesia early Srivijaya period, 7th-8th century
height (including stand): 25cm, width: 8cm, depth: 7cm, weight (including stand): 971g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 6604
Nepalese Gold & Gilt Amulet Box showing Tara, Vishnu & Garuda, & set with Precious Stones
Nepal 19th-early 20th century
width: 7.6cm, length: 7.6cm, depth: 2.6cm, weight: 117g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8520
Burmese Silver Bowl with Battle Scenes
Burma circa 1880
width: approximately 23cm, height: 14.5cm, weight: 1,144g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 7325
Rare, Nepalese Inscribed & Gilded Copper Buddha’s Footprints Buddhapada Portable Mandala Plaque
Nepal 17th-18th century
diameter: approximately 27cm, weight: 669g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7333
Well-Modelled Mangbetu Terracotta Vessel
Mangbetu People, Congo 19th century-early 20th century
height: 28.5cm, width: approximately 12.5cm, weight: 1,096g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 8527
Solomon Islands Comb (Faa) & Original Palm Leaf Wrapping
Kwaio People, Malaita, Solomon Islands early 20th century
length: 18.5cm, width: 7cm, combined weight: 23g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8529
Solomon Islands Small Pectoral Pendant (Tafi or Dafe)
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length: 9.3cm, weight: 25g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8539
Superb Solomon Islands Pierced Shell Ear Plug (Ulawa)
Solomon Islands early 20th century
diameter: 4.8cm, depth: 0.8cm, weight: 19g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8540
Solomon Islands Gold Lipped Pearl Shell Pendant with attached Shell Currency Strands
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length (of shell): 7cm, width: 6.7cm, weight: 26g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8541
Solomon Islands Shell Necklace with Tafi or Dafe Pendant & Shell Currency Strands
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length (of shell): 9.8cm, length (of shell currency strand): approximately 85cm, weight: 77g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8542
Solomon Islands Engraved Shell Pendants with Shell Currency Strands
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length (of the largest shell pendant): 5.8cm, weight: 92g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8543
Solomon Islands Carved Clam Shell & Seed Necklace
Solomon Islands early 20th century
width (of shell pendant): 8.5cm, weight: 99g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8544
Large Solomon Islands Pectoral Pendant (Tafi or Dafe)
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length: 19cm, weight: 112g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8545
Solomon Islands Engraved Shell Pendants with Shell Currency Strands
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length (of the largest pendant): 6.6cm, weight: 98g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8546
Solomon Islands Large Pectoral Pendant (Tafi or Dafe)
Solomon Islands early 20th century
length: 20.7cm, weight: 190g
Provenance
from the estate collection of a former London museum curator
Enquiry about object: 8446
Indian Cast & Pierced Bronze Gajalakshmi Lamp
Tamil Nadu, South India late 18th century
height: 17.5cm, depth: 13.5cm, weight: 1,072g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 7040
Tibetan Woman’s Ga’u Box with Silver, Gold & Coral
Central Tibet, probably Lhasa 19th century
length: 8.3cm, width: 5.6cm, depth: 4.1cm, weight: 86g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Selected Fine Items from Past Cataloues
Enquiry about object: 6518
Unusual Bedouin Saudi Silver Collar Necklace
Bedouin people, Saudi Arabia and possibly Yemen, early 20th century
diameter of collar: 11cm, length of pendants: 12.3cm, weight: 516g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3026
Rare Indian Lucknow Enamelled Silver & Leather Hookah Base
Lucknow, India 18th century
height: 20.2cm, diameter of base: 14.8cm, weight: 611g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6107
Fine & Large Silver Filigree Tray or Platter
probably India 18th-early 19th century
diameter: 27.5cm, height: 4cm, weight: 573g
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 6185
Complete, Berber Carved Stone Musket Ball Mould
Berber People, Anti-Atlas, Morocco 18th-19th century
length: 6.6cm, width: 5.3cm, height: 4.2cm, weight: 334g
Provenance
private collection, London
Enquiry about object: 5009
Burmese Lacquered Food Offering Vessel (Ok-Kwet)
Burma early to mid-20th century
height: 35cm, diameter: 36cm
Provenance
UK art market
Enquiry about object: 3527
Nepalese Pair of Woman’s Gold Earrings (Chepti Sun)
Nepal mid-19th century
diameters: 6cm, combined weight: 22.7g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Enquiry about object: 3581
Fine, Persian Painted & Lacquered Mirror Case
Persia (Iran) Zand Dynasty, circa 1780
height: 21.8cm, width: 15.2cm, thickness: 1cm
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 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
Enquiry about object: 6231
Chinese Export Silver Bowl by Yok Sang
Maker: Yok Sang, China circa 1895
diameter: 22cm, height: 11cm, weight: 828g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Enquiry about object: 7032
Parcel-Gilt Copper Shrine of Padmapani Lokeswara Shrine set with Coral
Kathmandu Valley, Nepal circa 1850
height: 38cm, width: 28.4cm, depth: 14cm
Provenance
UK art market