$580.00
The eyes of the rhinoceros are inlaid with exquisite mother of...
$2,400.00
With a spherical body rising from a short foot with a central bulbous ring, resting on a splayed foot, the tall, ribbed tubular neck is adorned at the top and bottom with openwork bands of a typical Safavid pattern four-petaled blossom. The top band with remains of turquoise stone inlays may indicate that the bo...
$1,200.00
The item is cylindrical in shape and finely hand-painted in polychrome and gold. It features seven colors of birds amidst a dense gold foliate ground, along with thistle leaves. One end of the holder has been removed to reveal the interior, which contains a metal liner.
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$450.00
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A robust crescentic, engraved axe blade is shaped like a bird, while the rear blade is shaped like a perching bird with an engraved body and tail formed into a downturned rear fluke.
An integral tapered octagonal socket is notched with two rings at the top.
CONDITION: Shows age and heavy use, the base of the socket smashed.
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$550.00
Each arm of the cross is adorned with a round finial containing busts of saints. The reverse depicts standing with outsprea...
$900.00
John Nepomuk (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) was the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and refused to divulge the secrets o...
$2,000.00
$350.00
The Hunter case is made entirely of low-grade...
$800.00
Due to the fact that th...
$550.00
The hand-sculptured figurine portrays two Putti in a typical rococo style, adorned with wreaths of flowers. One of the Putti is seated on the back of a sheep, while the other is playing with the sheep, and a small lamb is shown nursing milk from its mother sheep. The figurines are placed on a base decorated with a rococo-style design and decorated with flowers.
The base has a hand-painted c...
$250.00
CONDITION: It is in good condition considering ...
$600.00
The hookah is made of a zinc alloy and consists of two parts - a bell-shaped body and a short neck with a flanged collar and a trumpet mouth. The body is decorated with silver inlaid, three-lobed floral medallions amongst a continuous scrolling band of leaves and flowers of variegated shapes and sizes, compactly filling the black ground. This pattern is mi...
$850.00
A shaped hilt composed of sheets of silver decorated in filigree and bead work, with a scrolling pattern and rosettes, mounted with a broad, slightly curved, double-edged blade formed with a pronounced medial ridge on each side.
Silver scabbard lined inside with a wooden insert, is affixed with a large suspension mount and richly adorned in filigree and bea...
$2,800.00
This exquisite painting is a work of art from the 18th century, believed to have been created circa 1750. It is an oval-shaped natural wafer, meticulously hand-painted using gouache, a type of watercolor paint. The painting depicts a king, who is portrayed with utm...
$1,500.00
The outer surface is extensively decorated with fine koftgari inlaid in silver. The design features intricate floral and creeper patterns on a blackened ground.
The shield has a broad reinforcing band appliquéd to its rim, riveted in plac...
$1,400.00
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The cover (filter) is also decorated with three bunches of grapes on a vine which also issues scalloped lea...
$900.00
$1,200.00
The tubular pen case is finely hand-chiseled on the one site with 8 Auspicious Symbols of Tibetan Buddhism including:
The Conch, Parasol, Golden fish, Treasure Vase of sacred water, Victory banner, lotus blossom, endless eternal knot, the opposite site is chiseled with foliate scrollwork. The pen case is attached by three chains to the inkwell.
The inkwell is made in the for...
$150.00
CONDITION: Good, there are no cracks or chips on mother of pearl; gold has some very small dents, nice age patina.
MEASUREMENTS: Handle measures 30 cm (11 ¾ inches) long.
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$1,700.00
The cross is formed of two hardwood elements (probably rosewood), a central staff, and a horizontal bar, inlaid with incised and finely engraved mother-of-pearl to depict vines and acanthus leaves.
Both ends of the arms and the top of the cross are shaped like Ruya's heads and inlaid with mother of pearl with lotus flowers and acanthus leaves. The reverse is ...
$350.00
CONDITION: It shows its age and use with age-related wear and patina.
MEASUREMENTS:
Height: 3.5cm (1.38 inches).
Width: 4.8 cm (1.89 inches).
Depth: 5.5cm (2.17 inches).
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The shield is of a circular convex form, made of black lacquered buffalo hide, hand-painted in raised gilt polychrome, with four floral sprays pointing towards the center, marked by a round medallion with floral arabesques, surrounded by four gilded solid silver domed bosses with pierced collars.
The upper part is set with a gilded, solid silver, half-moon crescent.
The bottom part is...
$300.00
A medal was minted in France in 1832 by Polish emigration activists with the aid of the Polish Bazaar Society in Lyon. The Brussels Committee for Heroic Poland designed the medal after the November Uprising.
Obverse: Personification of Poland (Polonia) holding a banner in the ancient style with the inscription POLOGNE and the White Eagle, suppor...
$600.00
$2,000.00
The buckle plate is rectangular and has been made using the Cloisonne technique.
The front surface of the buckle is adorned with lozenge-shaped natural lapis lazuli stone set in a solid gold setting. It is surrounded by green and cobalt blue glass and copper alloy straps.
The rectangular plate has been connected to a thick oval loop by two hinge...
$380.00
DIMENSIONS: Approximate length in a straight line: 48.3 cm (19 in).
CONDITION: Very good.
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$400.00
The center of the bowl has a tapering central boss among Arabic calligraphy.
The inner walls are decorated with 13 panels in the form of a “Mihrab” niche with engraved talismanic and Koranic s...
$300.00
PROVENANCE: From an old Canadian collection of Tribal Art acquired by the owner's grandfather before WWII.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing the age and usage. Encrusted with wea...
$100.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Overall length: 13 cm (5.1 inches). Width: 7 cm (2.8 inches).
CONDITION:
Shows the age and use, loss of beads, minor wear normal for age. Please note that this is an authentic antique, over the 100-year-old pouch, whic...
$3,400.00
$250.00
The body is richly adorned with an incised in a low relief lotus pattern.
CONDITION: In very good condition, no cracks, chips, or repairs.
MEASUREMENTS:
Height: 32cm (12.6 inches).
Width: 22 cm (8.7 inches).
$2,000.00
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$2,400.00
Sides fluted and finely hand chased with stylized cypress trees, vines, floral cartouches and tulips, short neck engraved with date AH 1217 (1802-1803 A.D.) within the...
$3,000.00
The exterior side panels with scrolled borders, finely hand chased and engraved with flower heads and stylized foliage.
High-ranking officials of the Ottoman army used this type of Turkish Ottoman stirrups. These stirrups are rare and important ...
$650.00
The body of the censer is in the form of an elegant bombé vessel set with twin handles and four legs in the form of bamboo branches.
Two sides are decorated with rectangular panels hand-chiseled in a low relief on a punched background; one panel with a horned deer next to a tree, the other panel with a bird and a tree.
The censer base...
$320.00
The medal comes with its original display case box, which is covered in black-tan leatherette and has a lid lined with white silk satin. Th...
$230.00
CONDITION: In good condition with a lovely old deep patina very aged appearance and sign of usage.
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length: 21 cm (8 .27 inches).
$250.00
A body of graceful ovoid form on a short splayed foot with a flat base, flaring neck with pinched spout, applied with a grooved handle, Incised with floral decoration and covered overall in a splashed pale brown, green, and yellow glaze.
CONDITION: Considering its age, it is in good condition with usual chipping and flakes on the mouth and handle but is otherwise intact w...
$400.00
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The exterior is finely hand painted in great detail of an allegorical "shikargarh/shikargarh" hunting scene in the countryside scenery with a series of scenes depicting lions, tigers, and leopards hunting various animals, in...
$20,000.00
Each face of the axe has finely carved and engraved floral patterns, including blooming tulips and other flowers on punched ground.
The Ottomans considered tulip flowers, particularly in t...
$650.00
Made of bronze bit with a mouthpiece composed of two canons connected in the center, each cast with a loop at both ends.
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Similar snaffle bits from the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum are published in the exhibition catalog “Imperial China: The Art of the Horse in Chinese History” by Bill Cooke. Page.117. No. 92. (see the last picture in the listing). T...
$950.00
The Theotokos is dressed in an embroidered maroon veil and holds Jesus with her left arm. Around ...
$450.00
MEASUREMENTS: The inner circumference including the gap is 8 ½ inches (21 ½ cm) Diagonally:3 ¾ inches (9 ½ cm).
CONDITION: in good condition with a beautiful dark patina.
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$2,000.00
The statue is finely hand-carved in wood and covered with a reddish-brown lacquer highlighted with gold and encrusted with colored glass fragments.
His eyes with a white sclera and a black pupil are made of a single piece of shaped glass.
Buddha is depicted seated on a shaped plinth wearing a monastic robe; his hands are in bhumisparsa mudra, the h...
$170.00
The M1913 bayonet was one of only a few bayonet types to utilize checkered wood grips.
In 1913, the "Machete Bayoneta Modelo 1913" was adopted to replace the knife bayonet identified as M1893. However, when the M1916 short rifle was adopted in 1916, the M1913 bayonet became designated for use with the M1916 short rifle instead.
It was subsequently also designated for use with the M1943 short rifle.
A ricasso m...
$400.00
CONDITION: In very good condition showing age and usage. Free of cracks, chips, and repairs...
$3,000.00
$1,500.00
The excellent quality, sturdy, hand-forged serpentine-shaped blade with 9 luk ('waves’), made of Damascus steel Pamor of very rare ‘Mayang Mekar’ (Aren palm leaves) pattern sculpted with high ridges and deep grooves with kembang kacang, in the form of a stylized elephant trunk of the Hindu Deity Ganesha, from the pre–Islamic Period.
In ancient Indonesian fol...
$250.00
CONDITION: in excellent condition, with no chips, cracks or repairs.
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 10 cm (3.94 inches)
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$4,000.00
During the first half of the 18th century, many Indian dignitaries carried the heads of this style on a short haft, like tomahawks.
There were numerous variations in the design of this halberd.
A very well hand-forged iron axe head with a flaring blade and a spear-shaped rear-fluke and a narrow central blade in the form...
$300.00
A rare authentic antique, pre-contact, most likely a 19th – early 20th century, ceremonial wooden hand drum, "Tifa" or "Kundu" from Papua, New Guinea.
The hollow-body entirely carved from one piece of wood in elegant hour-glass form, the base handle decorated in traditional geometric incised designs.
PROVENANCE: From an old Canadian collection of Tribal Art acquired by the owner's grandfather before WWII.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing the a...
$1,500.00
The outer side is finely engraved with scrimshaw traditional motifs including sun with rotating rays, scrolls and geometrical pattern in the form of the standing figures.
During the 17th century, flasks of this type were made with similar patterns and decorations in many Eastern European countries, such as the Kingdom of Hu...
$90.00
MEASUREMENTS: Length 4 cm (1....