Approximately 24.7cm hig ...click for details

The document is an official eulogy or commendation in praise of the lady Yoh Ai-Mei, wife of Kuan Wei-Hsien, dated the 5th month, 9th year of the Republic. The official seal impression is enormous at very nearly 5 inches square. The paper has been laid onto stiff cardboard and is stable. At one time framed, the original backboard is present and has a doc ...click for details

Probably from southern India and dating from the late 18th century ~ early 19th ...click for details

An interesting bronze ewer, the body cast and lathe-turned to form a ribbed mouth-rim and plain decorative band on the shoulder. The upturned octagonal spout comes from the mouth of a ferocious makara, the handle formed as another, this with an elongated scaly body. An original casting fault on the outswept foot has been repaired, perhaps at the time of the origi ...click for details

Pandan is the name for the container of the various constituents of ‘pan’, a sliver of betel nut applied with lime paste and wrapped in a betel leaf. The early pandans do not have any divisions inside and it is thought that they were for holding the ‘quids’ of prepared pan. Similar early examples are illustrated in “Gold, Silver & Bronze from Mughal India” by Mark Zebrow ...click for details

A very elegant flask made with the repousse technique where the vessel is raised from sheet metal and decorated with punches to give high relief. A craft of considerable skill. Zebrowski illustrates several surahi with diagonal ridging which he describes as “a profoundly Indian kind of surface articulation for metal objects.” “where swirled surfaces at ...click for details

8.1/8 inches (20.6cm) high, 5.1/2 inches (14cm) wide. For this genre the sculpture is in unusually ...click for details

“Lord Vishnu then emerged as a half lion, half man from the pillar which was neither inside the house nor outside, and the time was evening, neither night nor day. He then killed Hiranyakasyapa, the King of the Demons, thus saving the life of his ...click for details

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4.3/4 inches (12.1cm) base diameter, 8.1/2 inches (21.6cm) high. Perfect condition. ...click for details