New Items for September 2019

Showcased here are 50 additions to our stock for September.

Included are items from Tibet, Nepal, Burma, Cambodia, India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, China, Benin, Malaysia, Spanish Colonial South America, the Dutch East Indies, Afghanistan, Yemen, Oman, & the Congo.

All items are for sale.

Click on the links below to see more details and images of each piece. Most entries include video footage to show the relative size of each object too.

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6184

Fine, Carved Hippopotamus Tooth & Horn Tumbok Lada Dagger

North Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 34cm, weight: 475g

Sold

Provenance

private English collection; private Japanese collection.

6152

Gilded Nepalese Vishnu & Garuda Pendant set with Pearls & Semi-Precious Stones

Newar People, Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
circa 18th century

height: 6.5cm, width: 6cm, weight: 45.84g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6189

Large & Impressive Chinese Export Silver Standing Cup & Cover by Wang Hing

Guangdong (Canton) & Hong Kong, China
circa 1880

height: 38.8cm, width: 32cm, weight: 1,395g

Sold

Provenance

private English collection

6150

Chased, Inscribed & Dated Silver Betel Tray, Captured at the Siege of Lucknow

Lucknow, India
late 18th century with a later inscribed date of 1858

length: 28.6cm, width: 21.4cm, height: 5.5cm, weight: 540g

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Provenance

taken at the siege of Lucknow; Major General Donald Macintyre VC

6143

Carved Mughal Jade with Gold & Turquoise Mounts

Delhi, Northern India
circa 1620 (Jade) & circa 1850 (Mounts)

width: 6.3cm, height: 5.4cm, thickness: 0.3cm, weight: 31.64g

Provenance

UK art market

5700

Dutch Colonial Silver Filigree Box & Cover

Dutch Colonial Dutch East Indies, probably Batavia
17th-18th century

length: 21.2cm, depth: 14cm, height: 7.4cm, weight: 1,108g

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Provenance

UK art market

4226

Rare Dayak Brass Ear Ornaments Showing Swiss-Lutheran Missionary Influence from Basel

Dayak People, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
early 20th century

lengths: 8cm & 8.3cm, combined weight: 99g

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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.

5161

Important, Published Yogya Silver Dish or Bonbonniere, Owned by Agnes van Gesseler Verschuir, the Reviver of the Yogya Silver Tradition

Yogyakarta, Central Java, Indonesia
circa 1930

length: 22.5cm, width: 14.5cm, height: 7.3cm, weight: 225g

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Provenance

Agnes van Gesseler Verschuir, wife of Pieter van Gesseler Verschuir, Colonial Dutch Governor of Yogyakarta (1929-1932), and thence by descent. This item is published in 'Yogya Silver' & exhibited in Amsterdam's Tropenmuseum in 2005.

6149

Inscribed, Silver-inlaid Bidri Basin (Silapchi)

Hyderabad, India
18th-19th century

diameter: 35.7cm, height: 11.5cm

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Provenance

UK art market

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

6163

Silver Bidri Talismanic or Magic Bowl with Koranic Verses (Abkhwura)

Deccan, India
19th century

diameter: 12.5cm, height: 5cm, weight: 197g

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Provenance

UK art market

6145

Burmese Lacquered & Gilded Sacred Goose Hintha Betel Box

Burma
19th or early 20th century

length: 31cm, height: 24.5cm, width: 18cm

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6160

Fine, Silver Mahtabi Bidri Bowl

Hyderabad, India
19th century

diameter: 12.5cm, height: 6.1cm, weight: 426g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6071

Unusual Burmese Silver Bowl

Burma
late 19th century

diameter: 22.5cm, height: 14cm, weight: 1,153g

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Provenance

UK art market

5774

Tibetan Silver & Turquoise Woman’s Belt Ornament & Matching Silver Chain (Ghanjen or Gyenzen)

Tibet
19th century

length: 46cm, height: 28cm, length of chain: 126cm, overall weight: 603g

Provenance

private collection, London, UK.

5069

Highly Unusual Islamic Sufi Flagellant’s Bullet Cartridge Whip

Northern India or Iran/Persia
early 20th century

length of handle or rod: 45cm, length of chain: 50cm, diameter of 'ball': 14cm

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Provenance

UK art market

6016

Rare Malay Carved Horn Fire Striker (Gobek Api) with Lint Nut Containers & Tweezers

Malay People, Malay Peninsula, Malaysia
19th century

length of fire striker: 10.6cm

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Provenance

UK art market

4098

Fine Omani, Four-Ringed Silver-clad Jambiya with Horn Hilt

Oman, probably Nizwa
19th century

length: 31cm, width: 25cm, weight: 675g

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Provenance

UK art market

5286

Two Burmese Amber Cylinder Ear Plugs

Kachin People, Burma
19th-early 20th century

approx. lengths: 4.4cm, diameter: 1.6cm, combined weight: 27.05g

Provenance

private collection, London.

4871

Rare Javanese Majapahit-Style Damascene Iron Double Putut Kris Blade with Maker’s Thumb Prints (Pichit)

Java, Indonesia
12th-15th century

length: 28.4cm, width at widest point: 7.2cm, weight: 150g

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Provenance

private collection, UK

6127

Large, Cambodian Silver Hen-Shaped Betel Lime Box

Cambodia
circa 1920

length: 19.5cm, height: 20cm, weight: 611g

Provenance

UK art market

6135

Cast Bronze Edo Benin Pendant or Aegis of Senior Female in Coral Regalia & with Netted Ball

Benin
16th-17th century

height: 12.7cm, width: 10cm, weight: 236g

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Provenance

private collection, UK.

6136

Cast Bronze Edo Benin Pendant or Aegis of Senior Female in Coral Regalia

Benin
16th-17th century

height: 14.8cm, width: 10.7cm, weight: 218g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, UK.

4977

Ear Pendants (Keramli)

Nuristan, Afghanistan, or Swat Vallery, Pakistan
19th century

lengths; 11cm, combined weight: 71cn

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London.

5412

Three Shan Burmese Silver Mounted Knives (Dha Hmyaung)

Shan People, Eastern States
19th century

lengths: 22cm, 19.8cm, 17.7cm

Provenance

UK art market

5759

Dayak Beaded Loin Cloth or Cache Sexe

Dayak People, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia
early 20th century

27cm x 16.5cm

Provenance

UK art market

5925

Malay Sword with Horn Hilt & Silver Mounts (Klewang)

Malay Peninsula or Sumatra, Indonesia
19th century

length: 87cm, weight: 935g

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Provenance

UK art market

5932

Circular Bidri Tray (Tashtari)

Hyderabad, India
18th century

diameter: 18.1cm, weight: 628g

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Provenance

UK art market

6051

Central Asian Gilded Silver Drop Earrings and a Pendant Gilded, Niello Amulet Case

Uzbek & Kyrgyz Peoples, Central Asia
19th century

length of amulet case: 10.6cm, height, including all chains: 22cm, lengths of earrings: 9.5cm, combined weight: 108g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

5933

Circular Bidri Tray (Tashtari)

Hyderabad, India
early 19th century

diameter: 17.8cm, weight: 402g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6072

Tall, Colonial Kashmiri Silver Flask

Kashmir, Northern India
circa 1880

height: 29.7cm, weight: 579g

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Provenance

UK art market

5269

Inscribed, Talismanic Silver Necklace

Afghanistan or Iran
circa 1900

approx. circumference of necklace: 90cm, length of main plaque: 11cm, overall weight: 153g

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Provenance

UK art market

5661

Two Large Turquoise Beads with Silver Mounts

Ladakh, India or Tibet
first half of the 20th century

lengths: 4.6cm-5cm long, combined weight: 106g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6076

Large, Colonial Spanish Inscribed Silver Serving Platter

Colonial Spanish South America, probably Argentina
18th century

diameter: 33.8cm, height: 4.4cm, weight: 823g

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Provenance

UK art market

6109

Rare, Cast Brass Ritual Gajja Singha & Lotus Salagrama Stand for Holding an Ammonite Fossil

Orissa, India
19th century

height: 35.5cm, width: 28cm, diameter of tray: 17.4cm, weight: 3,347g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6117

Burmese Silver Bowl

Burma
circa 1900

diameter: 19cm, height: 11.8cm, weight: 846g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6119

Elegant & Early Sri Lankan Bracelet

Sri Lanka
18th-19th century

internal diameter at widest point: 5.9cm, external diameter: 8cm, weight: 54g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6120

Nuristan Silver Alloy Torque & Pendant

Nuristan, Afghanistan
early 20th century

length: 33cm, width: 15cm, weight: 226g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6121

Silver Boteh-shaped Earrings

Afghanistan or Pakistan
late 19th-20th century

lengths: 10.5cm, combined weight: 19.61g

Provenance

private collection, London.

6058

Densely-Decorated Burmese Silver Bowl

Burma
19th century

diameter: 16cm, height: 9.8cm, weight: 466g

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Provenance

UK art market

6122

Indian Silver Amulet Necklace

Northern India, probably Dolmar, Uttarakhand
19th century

approximate circumference: 76cm, typical length of silver box: 7.5cm, weight: 140g

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Provenance

UK art market

6134

Brass Votive Plaque (Tsha Tsha) Mould

Tibet
early 20th century, or earlier

8.3cm x 8.3cm, weight: 317g

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Provenance

UK art market

6158

Set of Indian Hindu Temple Bronze Body Stamps (Chhapa)

Orissa or Bengal, India
18th-19th centuries

lengths of each stamp face: 2.4cm-5.2cm, combined weight: 88g

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Provenance

UK art market

6182

Tibetan Rosary of Human Bone & Beads (Sin-‘phen)

Tibet
circa 1900

circumference: approx. 90cm, weight: 200g

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

6140

Tharu Silver Necklace (Kantshri)

Rana Tharu People, Western Terai Region, Southern Nepal
circa 1920

length of main body of necklace: 31cm, length including chains: 49cm, overall length of pendants: 7cm, weight: 268g

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Provenance

UK art market

4326

Carved Wooden Dog Fetish Figure (Koso)

Vili People, Republic of Congo
early 20th century

length: 24cm; width: 7cm and height: 8cm

Provenance

Estate of the London collector, Seward Kennedy, London

5851

Omani Silver Bead & Trade Glass Bead Necklace

Either Batinah or Sur, Oman
19th-early 20th century

circumference: approx. 50cm, weight: 106g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London.

5287

Bedouin Face Veil (Burqua) Decorated with Silver

Bedouin People, Yemen
first half of the 20th century

32cm x 14cm

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Provenance

UK art market

5346

Bedouin Face Veil (Burqua) Decorated with Beads & Silver

Bedouin People, Yemen
first half of the 20th century

25.4cm x 14.6cm

Sold

Provenance

UK art market

Fine, Selected Items from Past Catalogues

5960

Rare Ottoman Turkey or Balkans Silver Cartridge Box for the Waist

Ottoman Balkans
early 19th century

length: 19.3cm, height: 7.7cm, thickness: 4.2cm, weight: 261g

Provenance

UK art market

1459

Carved Ivory Lion Throne Element

Orissa, India
15th-16th century

height: 10.5cm; height with stand: 12.5cm

Sold

Provenance

: from a private European collection since around 1970.

4283

Pair of Moroccan Silver Woman’s Hair Rings

Morocco, pre-Sahara Region
19th century

length: 7cm, width: 3.3cm, combined weight: 110g

Sold

Provenance

private collection, London.

3358

Indian Green Bowenite Box with Fine Silver Mounts

Northern India
circa 1820

length: 17.8cm, height: 4.5cm, width: 8.7cm, weight: 522g

Sold

Provenance

UK antique market

848

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

Spanish Colonial Guatemala
18th century

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

Sold

Provenance

European antiques market.

3023

Indian Painted Wooden Portable Shrine for the Jagannathi Trio

Orissa or Rajasthan, India
circa 1920

height: 38.5cm, width with all panels fold away: 19cm; with panels extended: 73cm

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Provenance

UK art market

5994

Carved, Solid Ivory Rosewater Sprinkler with Engraved & Coloured Decoration & Original Carved Wooden Case

India or Sri Lanka
circa 1860

height of sprinkler: 23.4cm, height of wooden case: 26.6cm

Sold

Provenance

UK art market