The artist initially signed the statue on a small bronze plaque attached to a...
$40,000.00
Link to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghazi-ud-Din_Haidar_Shah
The right side of the blade is decorated with an intricate and exquisite gold inlay at the base, depicting the Royal Emblem of The Ghazi-ud-Din Haidar Shah, the Nawab of Oudh (Awadh). The elaborate emblem is composed of a roy...
$30,000.00
DETAILS: a large molded circular base embellished with notched six-pointed stars, engraved fish scales, and garlands rests on three lying lions, multiple balusters stem adorned with rings, notched six-pointed stars, zigzag, and punched with circles and garlands. T...
$30,000.00
The onion-shaped partially gilt copper head is encased in, chased, and engraved with stylized floral motifs and set with natural turquoise stones of various sizes and shapes.
The shaft comprises upper and lower copper tubes, chased and engraved with stylized floral motifs and set with various sizes and shapes of natural turquoise stones, ensuite to the head of the m...
$25,000.00
From 1733 to 1763, he was the King of Poland, Grand Duke of Lithuania, and Elector of Saxony.
The king is depicted wearing armor and a blue moiré silk sash of the Polish Order of the White Eagle. He also has a black cravat and an elaborate white lace collar.
An ermine-trimmed red coro...
$25,000.00
The elegantly carved head in highly polished gray schist with stylized curls drawn up over the ushnisha at crown of head, with a distinctive widow’s peak above the broad forehead and urna, finely chiselled eyebrows curving into the strong aquiline nose, the lowered eyes serene and downcast, with a bow-shaped mouth and pendulous earlobes signifying Buddha’s renunciation, wi...
$25,000.00
The wooden handle is covered with black leather, and the cup-pommel is mounted at an upward angle, characteristic of 16th-century Ottoman "Kilic" sabers made in the style of the Crimean Tatar sabers called "Ordynka."
The blade from the early 16th century is a single-edged, sturdy, and curved desig...
$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...
$15,000.00
The sword is mounted in solid 22k gold.
A hilt comprises a grip with camel bone grip scales, enclosed by solid gold straps and wrapped in a solid gold wire at the base, rising to a solid gold cup-pommel, jeweled with faceted synthetic ruby stone.
Solid silver crossguard with bud-s...
$10,000.00
The steel guard has a semi-closed knuckle bow, faceted crossguard and langets, and down curved quillon.
This particular semi-closed guard is distinctive of the 17th-century Polish hussar...
$9,000.00
Straight, sturdy, thick, tapering blade, double-edged towards the point, cut on each side with a shallow and slender fuller along the back edge.
The blade is hand-chiseled on each side at the forte with a royal heraldic shield depicting the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth coat of arms; Polish Crowned Eagle, and on the o...
$8,500.00
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 50.8 cm (20 inches). Width: 29.3 cm (11 1/2 inches. Weight approximately: 14 lb. ...
$8,000.00
This helmet in the form of the Turkish Ottoman Sipahi (سپاهی) cavalry helmets with a plain shallow domed skull is formed of three plates; a central steel plate covered on the top with a worn sheet of gilt silver with slightly visible remains of the gold ...
$8,000.00
REFERENCES:
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2007/arts-of-the-islamic-world-l0722http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app/collection/record/ark:/12148/c33gbcx5q0/lot.48.html
http://medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr/ws/catalogue/app...
https://echiquier-val-yerres.org/histoire-des-echecs/evolution-du-jeu-et-des-pieces/
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin...
$8,000.00
He stands in a Tribhanga pose on an octagonal lotus base over a rectangular plinth, wearing a long dhoti tied at the waist with a sash falling down the sides of his legs. His upper torso is adorned with necklaces, his arms with armlets and bracelets, his face has a large nose and a full handlebar mustache, and he wears a high conical headdress.
...
$7,000.00
CONDITION: Minor paint loss, some crazing throughout, overall in very good condition. The painting was howe...
$7,000.00
The entire mountings, including grip, crossguard, and the scabbard with two large suspension mounts, are made of solid silver. Entirely worked in repousse and are finely hand chased in low relief with scrolling foliage of rococo shells and fl...
$7,000.00
MEA...
$7,000.00
The spoon's stem has low relief on both sides and showcases a detailed standing figure of a French Royal Musketeer playing the bugle. The musketeer is dressed in a typical 17th-century elaborate musketeer uniform with a cape, a sash across the torso, and a feathered hat on his head. His left-hand rests on the hilt of his rapier sword, and he wears musketeer bucket top boots on his legs. The spoon bowl...
$7,000.00
The interior is painted under the glaze in dark brown on an amber color background with a large flower head with cusped lip formed by a central bud with eight emerging petals.
This particular type of Mamluk-period earthenware, with a heavily potted red clay body and painted in ...
$7,000.00
Swords of this type are called in Poland "Batorowka" because the first sabers of this style were introduced in Poland via Hungary during the reign of Stephen Bathory, the prince of Transylvania (1576–1586), King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1576–1586). Polish hussars used this type of saber from the late 16th century until the middle of the 17...
$6,500.00
Polish hussars used this type of saber ...
$6,500.00
The front and wrist plates are gold-plated copper (tombak) and adorned with ornate straps that are pierced and riveted to the bazuband.
Ottoman tombak armors made o...
$6,000.00
The vase is decorated to the body with finely hand-painted four large lobed panels with a band of Ruyi heads, all reserved against a trefoil ground of iron red.
Each panel encloses figures in landscape scenes. The shoulder is decorated with flower heads amongst profuse scrolling tendrils, and the base is encircled by a border of overlapping leaf tips.
CONDITION: In good ...
$6,000.00
MEASUREMENTS: Overall length in a straight line:7.5cm (2.95 inches). Width: 3.1 cm (1.22 inches). Weight: 28 grams.
Provenance...
$6,000.00
With bulbous body on a splayed foot, rising to long neck with pronounced torus molding and flaring mouth. decorated in in thickly applied red bole; reciprocating design on body and upper neck looks like teardrop shapes with pointed lobes. It is marked at the base with a hand painted Samson mark with pseudo-Ara...
$6,000.00
The panel is finely hand pierced with elegant inscriptions in Arabic calligraphic Thuluth script: الله Allah. موسى Musa (Moses). محمد Muhammad, amidst scrolling vines issuing flower heads and split palmettes in a distinguishing Safavid Persian pattern of inter...
$6,000.00
$6,000.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Overall length in a...
$5,800.00
A long, slightly massive, curved blade, cut on each face with a broad full-length fuller and a short slender fuller along the back-edge...
$5,500.00
The Khazars were nomadic Turkic people best known for converting to Judaism in the 8th and 9th centuries. Their rule lasted at least 250 years, supported militarily by Muslim mercenaries known as al-Arsiyah.
The sword has an exceptionally well-forged, slightly curved blade, with a flat upper spine, the sturdy blade has a false edge (Yelmen) tapering towards the tip.
...
$5,500.00
Hand carved in two sections and bonded together L-shaped steatite stone bowl with slight flare to prow, adorned with lead inlayed ring. The carved pipe stem of natural wood carved in relief with two elliptical loops design displaying a lovely glossy patina.
CONDITION: in overall good condition showing the age and usage with a beautiful old patina from sweat and gr...
$5,000.00
The cross pendant has a box-like structure designed to hold a relic. It comprises several separate elements of elaborate silver-gilt delicate filigree work, created with excellent precision by twisting and soldering wires with a scrolling pattern. The pendant has pearl-shaped knobs set with various colored faceted paste jewels.
T...
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
This antique wine vessel features a deep, rounded body that rests on three curved, tapered legs. The rim is adorned with two handles - a curved handle shaped like the mythical head of the Jiezi bird and a cusped flat handle. The center of the vessel has a spout for pouring wine.
CONDITION: In good condition, as seen in this photo, covered with a dark brown-green patina, with are...
$5,000.00
Napoleon is depicted in his favorite uniform as Colonel of Chasseurs Cheval de la Garde Imperial, complete with epaulets, the Cross of the Legion of Honour on his chest, and a sword at his side.
In his right hand, he holds a scroll of the document that awards the Order of the Legion of Honor, a...
$5,000.00
Napoleon is depicted in his favorite uniform as Colonel of Chasseurs Cheval de la Garde Imperial, complete with epaulets, the Cross of the Legion of Honour on his chest, and a sword at his side.
In his right hand, he holds a scroll of the document that awards the Order of the Legion of Honor, a...
$4,900.00
Two analogous swords dated by the expert to the 18th century, from the Reign of The Emperor Qianlong, are published in the 2 professional books:
1. "Swords and Hilt Weapons" by Peter Connolly on page 183. 2. "Late Imperial Chinese Armies 1520 -18140" by Chris Peers & Christa Hook on page 33.
PLEASE SEE THE LAST TWO PICTURES IN THE LIS...
$4,500.00
The compressed globular body with a waisted neck and everted rim flanked by a pair of beast masks, set with upright bail handles, supported on three tall tapering conical legs.
The rounded sides are adorned with two panels; one is engraved on a punched ground with a horned qilin, birds, and two Lohans within the floral patt...
$4,500.00
The middle part divided into two baluster form parts surmounted by a large bulbous furnace decorated en suite with the base with ban...
$4,000.00
DETAILS:
The steel hilt of characteristic Indo Persian, Northern Indian shamshir form consists of several hand-forged elements, hand-chiseled on both sides in a low-relief with the classic hunting scene "shikargarh / shikargarh" depicting a lion hunting antelope very realistically.
On the pommel is carved the grotesque face of the Persian mythological demon "Div" (دیو) which sp...
$4,000.00
This is a large, solid silver circular basin that has been embossed from a single piece of silver. It has fluted, petal-shaped walls and a fully hand-forged scalloped rim. The basin's center is exquisitely repoussé and finely chased, showcasing a raised Spanish coat-of-arms within bands adorned with foliage. This basin is a great example of superior Spanish colo...
$4,000.00
The mace is composed of many separate elements of silver, including a spherical gilt silver head (hollow inside) covered by intricate lattice filigree work decorated with garland and flowers enclosed at the bottom and the top by gilded silver rosettes and surmounted at the top with a gilt silver bulbous finial (hollow inside).
The baluster shape handle is made of h...
$4,000.00
Buddha Sakyamuni stands in samabhanga, with his left hand stretched downwards along his body, his delicate face with a serene expression, downcast eyes with heavy eyelids under arched eyebrows.
He is wearing a monastic robe - samghati with a belt around his waist and a centerfold falling straight down. He is adorned with jewelry; elaborate necklaces, bra...
$4,000.00
PROVENANCE: Ex Important Canadian private collection of Islamic Art.
CONDITION: Showing age and usage. A minor crack in the ...
$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...
$4,000.00
A bulbous body covered with olive-green glaze, ending irregularly above an unglazed foot, surmounted by a trumpet-shaped neck applied on the rim, with a band form of eight lotus petals and set with a separately made fish-shaped spout and looped handle. Body with a prominent flange at the midpoint.
The lower half applied with the hand carved in relief five masks in the form of the faces ea...
$4,000.00
The base with the unglazed channel foot rim enclo...
$4,000.00
The sculpture is of excellent quality fire-gilded bronze, finely cast with a hollow back and pierced with nail holes, then hand-finished with an artist's tools and gilded. It is believed to have been cast from a wax model. The sculpture is a stunning portrayal of Christ. His long, curly hair cascades down his right shoulder, framing his face. ...
$4,000.00
A compressed globular body raised on a flaring ring foot chased with foaming waves. The sides are applied with twin fish handles. The exterior is finely hand chiseled in relief with two Qiulong horned dragons pursuing flaming pearls amidst flames and the clouds on the chased ground, bordered by two bands incised with a Greek key pattern. The ...
$4,000.00
The flat base is incised with the maker's mark, Zhang Mingqi, in Zhuanshu script as a square seal.
Most hand warmers with the Zhang Mingqi signa...
$4,000.00
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$4,000.00
A bulbous body covered with olive-green glaze, ending irregularly above an unglazed foot, surmounted by a trumpet-shaped neck applied on the rim, with a band form of eight lotus petals and set with a separately made fish-shaped spout and looped handle. Body with a prominent flange at the midpoint.
The lower half applied with the hand carved in relief five masks in the form of the faces ea...
$4,000.00
The base with the unglazed channel foot rim enclo...
$4,000.00
$4,000.00
The crescent moon has been finely hand chiseled with elegant thuluth Arabic calligraphy inscription in old Ottoman writing, "Osmanlıca yazı." The inscription is against a punched ground, and I could decipher onl...
$3,900.00
0” Почаївська ікона Пресвятої Богородиці " Matka Boska Poczajowska” “Чудотворна ікона Почаївської Божої Матері” ” Почаївська Ікона Божої Матері”.
The icon of Pochayiv Mother of God is venerated equally by Ukrainian Orthodox, Ukrainian Greek Catholic (Greco-Cat...
$3,800.00
The helmet's hemispherical shape is crafted by hand-hammering a single piece of solid steel. The interior shows visible hammer marks, while the exterior is entirely smooth.
The skull is adorned with a hand-chiseled in low relief series of eighteen narrow ribs radiating vertically from the top of the helmet. It is applied with a domed rosette riveted to the skull and decorated in cu...
$3,500.00
A brass body of classical dome form and small conical finial surmounted by an elaborated openwork finial, the central wide band adorned with four large copper, inlaid and pierced, medallions containing a calligraphic Arabic inscription, profusely inlaid in thick silver and interrupted by four elaborated cart...
$3,500.00
DETAILS: A superb quality sturdy, slightly curved, single-edged blade hand-forged from the characteristic Indian mechanical Damascus steel with excellent quality watered pattern in the form of Mohammed's ladder.
Gold-inlaid steel hilt of Aurangzebi type comprised of a baluster grip, a cross-guard formed with beautifully shaped quillons and langets, a knuckle bow terminating ...