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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8578

Nepalese Gilded Ritual Lamp (Sukunda)

Nepal
18th century

height: 28.9cm, width: approximately 14.5cm, length: 26.5cm, weight: 2,293g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

8590

Large Maori Greenstone Hei-Tiki Pendant

Maori people, New Zealand
1600-1850

height: 12.7cm, width: 8.5cm, depth: 1.5cm, weight: 272g

Sold

Provenance

with the same private collection, southern England, since the 1960s

8576

Early Chola Bronze Ganesh

South India
early Chola period, 9th-10th century

height: 7.4cm, width: 4.8cm, depth: 3.7cm, weight: 159g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

8562

Nepalese Gold & Gilt Amulet Box showing the Dhyani Buddha Amitabha, & set with Rubies & other Precious Stones

Nepal
19th-early 20th century

width: 8.2cm, length: 7.9cm, depth: 2cm, weight: 128g

Provenance

UK art market

7310

Chinese Court Gold & Pearl Hat or Headdress Ornament

China
18th-19th century

height: 6.6cm, width: 5.5g, weight: 5.98g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

3403

Tibetan Official’s Turquoise, Pearl & Gold Ear Pendant (Sochi)

Lhasa, Tibet
19th century

length: 11.5cm, weight: 12g

Sold
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

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.

8474

Indian Brass Virabhadra Plaque

India, probably Karnataka
18th-19th century

height: approx. 25cm

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK.

8566

Palestinian Woman’s Face Veil Burqa’

Bedouin People, Palestine
1880-mid-20th century

length (central line): 38.2cm, width: 29cm, weight: 744g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

8512

Nepali Inscribed Ritual Bronze Skull Cup Kapala

Nepal
16th-17th century

length: 21cm, width: 16.3cm, weight: 789g

Provenance

Art market, Belgium

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.

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

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

8520

Burmese Silver Bowl with Battle Scenes

Burma
circa 1880

width: approximately 23cm, height: 14.5cm, weight: 1,144g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK

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

7333

Well-Modelled Mangbetu Terracotta Vessel

Mangbetu People, Congo
19th century-early 20th century

height: 28.5cm, width: approximately 12.5cm, weight: 1,096g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

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

8539

Superb Solomon Islands Pierced Shell Ear Plug (Ulawa)

Solomon Islands
early 20th century

diameter: 4.8cm, depth: 0.8cm, weight: 19g

Sold

Provenance

from the estate collection of a former London museum curator

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

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

Sold

Provenance

from the estate collection of a former London museum curator

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

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

8544

Large Solomon Islands Pectoral Pendant (Tafi or Dafe)

Solomon Islands
early 20th century

length: 19cm, weight: 112g

Sold

Provenance

from the estate collection of a former London museum curator

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

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

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

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 Catalogues

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

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

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

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

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

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London

5009

Burmese Lacquered Food Offering Vessel (Ok-Kwet)

Burma
early to mid-20th century

height: 35cm, diameter: 36cm

Provenance

UK art market

3527

Nepalese Pair of Woman’s Gold Earrings (Chepti Sun)

Nepal
mid-19th century

diameters: 6cm, combined weight: 22.7g

Provenance

private collection, UK.

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

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

6231

Chinese Export Silver Bowl by Yok Sang

Maker: Yok Sang, China
circa 1895

diameter: 22cm, height: 11cm, weight: 828g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK

7032

Parcel-Gilt Copper Shrine of Padmapani Lokeswara Shrine set with Coral

Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
circa 1850

height: 38cm, width: 28.4cm, depth: 14cm

Sold

Provenance

UK art market