All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1277984
The repousse brass on wood mortar with Kala heads. The iron pestle mounted with a hardwood kneeling figure. Ca. Late 19th to early 20th century. The mortar is 15 cm long, the pestle 29 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre AD 1000 item #579251 (stock #GLASS-005)
Two round and one boomerang shape ancient glass beads. Two round ones are a pale sea green and the larger one aqua blue. Size: Small: 1.8cm. Middle: 2.8cm. Large: 3.8cm. Condition: Perfect.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre AD 1000 item #1161761
A lovely example of Dong Son Bronze Culture, made in Vietnam between 300BC and 300AD. H. 16 cm, wonderful patina and a small corner missing at the top. The stand is included.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1700 item #1107546
An unusual and interesting straw glazed porcelaneous incense burner. The three footed bombe censer with barbed, loop handles on opposite sides along the waist flaring to a broad rim. The interior reveals the pot was built from coiling and smoothed without before glazed and fired. Good condition for its type and likely age. Minor old chips to the extremities of the loop handles and one small chip to the outside of the rim...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1342333
Made of lacquered hardwood. Original red lacquer and gilding, serene facial expression. Inscription on the base. H. 73,5 cm. Burma, Tai Lue minority, 18th/early 19th century.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1950 item #1155501
The handle in the shape of a loving couple. H. 19 cm. (excl. stand). Date: early to mid 20th century. Good age wear and nice patina. From a Dutch private collection.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1492 item #1370292 (stock #MA133)
Vietnamese 15th Century Blue & White Double-Gourd Jar

This rare and attractively-shaped small double-gourd jar was made during the 15th century. It is coated in a finely-crackled glaze and elaborately decorated in underglaze blue, the pattern featuring scrolling floral and lotus leaf patterns. Height 7 cm...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1354910 (stock #2850)
Small Indonesian ceremonial keris forged from steel in one piece with a straight blade, the hilt section in the shape of a sitting figure. Provenance: Private Collection, Switzerland. Condition: fine. Dimension: 24.7 cm long, 3.2 cm wide, weight: 82 g.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1319772
The backside decorated with a stupa. H. 10,5 cm. excl. stand. This piece was placed in the foundation of a newly built stupa.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1700 item #1107428
A finely decorated Vietnamese blue and white porcelain bowl. Thinly potted and with a crackled glaze over blue and white aquatic decoration suggesting waves on the bowl's exterior, a conch shell inside the cavetto and surrounded by a variety of blossoming flowers among grasses. Good condition with expected wear including a couple minor chips inside the foot rim and light abrasion inside the bowl. Diameter at widest point 6 1/8 inches (15.56cm). Height about 3 1/16 inches (7.78cm)
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1334704
H. 18 cm. Very good condition with expected age wear to the gilding.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre AD 1000 item #1296876
Made in mid Java, hammered and chiseled copper or bronze, decorated with a kind of vase with flower branches. Diameter 40,5 cm. Very good condition and lovely patina. Only one tiny hole.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1492 item #1484613 (stock #MC122)
Thai 13th - 15th Century Incised Stoneware Covered Box

This round box was made during the 13th - 15th century at the Sawankhalok kilns. Both cover and box have been decorated with an incised scrolling floral pattern, the design accentuated with the use of two different coloured glazes. The inner surface and base remain unglazed. Very unusually, to the base are incised lines: apart from the straight lines it appears there may be a picture incised although we cannot make out what it is...

All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1462705 (stock #WN368)
A pair small statues of a woman and a man in traditional costume, cast and cold-worked in bronze and fixed on the original wooden stand. The woman is rolling cheroot cigars and the man is smoking one. Such small bronze figurines were souvenirs and gifts from British Burma. Condition: the man's cigar is bent, the woman's bronze base with a tiny dent (please see photo no. 7), traces of usage. Dimension: total height: c. 11.3 and 11.5 cm, base: c...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1900 item #1319697
Excavated piece rom the Shan State. Nice green patina and excellent condition. H. 8,5 cm.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre AD 1000 item #1212478 (stock #AB-070)
An ancient necklace made from fossilized wood also know as Pumtek. The word Pumtek means "buried thunderbolt". This type of necklace is very rare. Size: 56 cm from end to end.
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1364117 (stock #WN064)
This powder horn is dating to the 19th / early 20th century. The curved body is made from water buffalo horn, beautifully carved with curvilinear motifs, the wide end with a wooden stopper. The gunpowder was stored in the Batak house in large gourds, the chief carried his own personal supply in such containers, which he wore suspended from a chain around his neck. Condition: the spout was originally with a closing mechanism plug, now lost...
All Items : Archives : Regional Art : Asian : Southeast Asian : Pre 1920 item #1267607 (stock #4507)
Interesting boat-shaped water vessel with birds-like spout, standing on four feet. Made of brass with brown patina and decorated with floral motifs in relief. Similar examples of this type of kendi in the "Tropenmuseum Amsterdam". Condition: traces of usage. Dimension: 33.4 cm high, 34 cm long.