$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...
$2,400.00
The front is finely carved with an image of Christ crucified on the cross. Above the crucifixion scene, there is a divine eye that adds a touch of emotional and spiritual depth to the artwork.
The reverse is finely carved with a standing, robed figure of the Mother of God. The cross is enclosed in a silver casing that adds elegance and durability. The casing...
$290.00
This is a remarkable piece of antique Indian tribal Banjara patchwork textile crafted with great care and attention. The fabric is composed of various multi-colored, intricately hand-e...
$190.00
It's worth noting that in Hindu mythology, the horse holds great significance as it is considered to be the vehicle o...
$800.00
Two large mythical guardians of the spirit world hold a boat transporting the souls of the dead to the afterlife. Each side of the boat is carved with two lizards. The boat is bolted to a wooden plinth.
DIMENSIONS: Overall length: 57.5 cm (22.64 inches). Height i...
$700.00
$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...
$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...
$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...
$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...
$500.00
$250.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Overall length: 39.5 cm (15.55 inches).
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing the age and usage, age crack as common in old bamboo.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
$1,000.00
The pierced cover stamped with two double gourd seals, a square shop seal with 'Yufeng' in both Chinese and Manchurian on the base, a...
$2,000.00
$4,000.00
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$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...
$1,400.00
The shield features intricate hand-chiseled patterns throughout. A double-star...
$6,000.00
$2,500.00
REFERENCES: Similar decanters have been sold at Christie’s London (South Kensington) 10 May 2011.
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$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.
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$3,400.00
$1,700.00
The base of the blade has an unusual pattern and is shaped on both sides, like a bird's head with a hooked beak and holes pierc...
$200.00
MEASUREMENTS:
Width including spout: 12.5 cm (4.92 inches). Height: 6.5 cm (2.56 inches).
CONDITION: In very good condition. No cracks, chips, or repairs.
$550.00
Each arm of the cross is adorned with a round finial containing busts of saints. The reverse depicts standing with outsprea...
$400.00
CONDITION: In its original unattached condition with a superb mellow old patina.
MEASUREMENTS: The overall length incl...
$300.00
$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...
$2,000.00
A wooden scabbard is covered on the front with low grade eastern silver decorated in openwork with scrolling vegetation. The upper part is covered with fabri...
$1,200.00
DETAILS: The hilt with pommel finely carved of deer antler, with scrolls motifs the and the leech grotesque faces. The leech (lemetek) is associated with blood sucking and so was considered a proper motif for a weapon and set with white and black and pink hair tufts, the grip bound with braided rattan straps.
A hand forged moderate curve, heavy and very sharp leaf-shap...
$1,500.00
DETAILS: The hilt with pommel finely carved of deer antler, with “aso” motifs and set with, black and brown hair tufts, the grip bound with braided rattan straps.
A hand forged, heavy, and very sharp straight steel blade, widens towards the finely shaped and pierced "Li-po-tong" tip, with flat ground on one side, display a forging pattern, similar to the pamor found on Indonesian kris,...
$900.00
The blade is well-balanced by the hilt, so there is no feel of weight of a long blade. A wooden hilt with a boat shaped crossguard, forked pommel finely sc...
$400.00
The quiver strap-crossing is a testament to the rich cultural heritage and craftsmanship of the Scythian civilization, and it offers a fascinating glimpse into the artistic and cultural achievements of the ancient...
$500.00
$600.00
The original wooden scabbard is bound in dark green velvet trimmed at the middle with a red cord, and the mouth of the scabbard is mounted with a banded brass locket I wi...
$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...
$400.00
Details: The dagger has a straight, double-edged, tapered iron blade with an engraved silver plate surrounding the ricasso. The intricately profiled silver handle is engraved with a geometric pattern.
The dagger is a stunning work of craftsmanship. Its straight, double-edged iron blade tapers to a fine point, making it both sharp and deadly. The blade's ricasso is surrounded by a beautifully engrav...
$400.00
Details: The flamboyant blade is made of sturdy steel, double-edged, and sharp to the touch. The blade is adorned with 9 luk or waves that have been chiseled on both sides, creating a beautiful floral motif.
The hilt, crafted from silver-plated copper, is pistol-shaped and engraved with scrolls, which add to the sword's ornate appearance. The pistol hilt's design also enhances the sword's grip,...
$1,700.00
Details: a curved, double-edged iron blade with a medial ridge, mounted in high grate silver hilt of elegant form finely repousse and engraved on the exterior with a scrolling foliage decorated with silver bead work three domed rosettes, and adorned with chased checkering pattern on the reverse.
Solid Silver scabbard lined inside with a wooden insert, richly ador...
$650.00
The Jimpul is a member in the family of heavy machete like swords of the Sea Dayak and the Kenyah people of Kalimantan (Borneo). Other members of the family are the Mandau, the Langgai Tinggang and the Niabor as well as few others. All associated with the head-hunting tradition. All share similarities but differ in the blade shapes and dimensions.
DETAILS: The hilt with pommel finely carved of d...
$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...
$500.00
DETAILS: The hilt in classical Burmese style, encased by silver collar adorned with bands of roped silver wire, mounted with an extremely sharp, sturdy, hand forged, recurved single-edged blade showing on each face laminations watered pattern and secure at the base with copper washer. Solid silver scabbard lined inside with a wooden insert, is decorated en suite with the hilt adorned with b...
$900.00
A broad, single-edged steel blade with a fuller along the back edge, both blade faces, the fullers, and the spine are overlaid with ornate goldish color metal foil, finely engraved with scrolling foliage motifs. The ricasso below the fullers is finely carved in steel in low relief with a trailing plant and clad with silver panels adorned with identical ornament as the carvings in the ste...
$400.00
It was called the Mahdist War since the Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah (محمد أحمد ابن عبد الله) 1848-85 proclaimed himself " Mahdi of Islam" (the "Guided One").
$450.00
REFERENCES:
1. A similar Moroccan koummya Jambiya is published in the book Les Armes Blanches du Mo...
$250.00
DETAILS: It is made in the characteristic Turkish Ottoman Balkan "Bichaq" form. Sterling silver straps enclose the bone hilt and ferrule, which are worked in low-relief repousse with foliage and Greek inscription. The knife is mounted with a recurved, clip-point, single-edged steel blade etched with Greek script.
A solid sterling silver scabbard, lined with a wooden insert, is richly adorned with repousse...
$480.00
The hilt is composed of two buffalo horn grip scales, mounted with an embossed and finely pierced cup pommel. The rosewood scabbard is adorned with silver fittings intricately crafted in repousse low relief. The fittings are finely pierced with images ...
$1,200.00
A finely hand-carved bone handle (Hulu or Ukiran) in the form of Jawa Demam, a pre-Islamic deity who is half-bird, half-human.
The blade is made of Damascus steel and has a serpentine shape. It is hand-forged and displays multiple layers of Pamor. The base of the blade is beautifully sculpted with high ridges and deep grooves. The kembang kacang, which is i...
$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...
$3,500.00
It has a deep, round shape and is supported by a short foot. The rim is everted and cusped.
The interior is painted underglaze in cobalt blue on an off-white ground. The design features seven stylized flower heads with abstract vegetal motifs in between. The rim has sketchily scrolling designs and dotted m...
$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 ...
$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...
$1,600.00
The shield has a circular convex form and an ornate brass medallion at the center. The medallion features an engraved, hand-sculpted, low-relief image of the Hindu deity Hanuman.
The monkey god faces towards the left side while wearing a Veshti and sash. He is decorated with two necklaces, armlets, bangles, earrings, and an elaborate crown. In his right hand, he carries San...
$2,500.00
REFERENCES: Similar decanters have been sold at Christie’s London (South Kensington) 10 May 2011.
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$750.00
It is housed within a modern, custom-made, beautiful gilt and lacquered wood frame. The frame has been cr...
$1,500.00
The helmet's hemispherical skull is formed by hand-hammering a single piece of thick, solid steel. The interior displays visible hammer marks, while the exterior surface is entirely smooth.
The skull is adorned with a long, stout spike and affixed on the front with the moveable nasal guard flanked by two plume holders.
The entire surface of the skull is finely hand-chiseled, in low relief, with a floral pattern and s...
$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...
$1,200.00
The helmet's hemispherical skull is formed by hand-hammering a single piece of thick, solid steel. The interior displays visible hammer marks, while the exterior surface is entirely smooth. The skull is adorned with a long, thick spike and two plume holders.
The entire surface of the skull is finely hand-chiseled, in low relief, with a floral pattern and six circular medallions. The border is adorned by a broad band of 1...
$980.00
The shield is made of hand-hammered solid brass. The front is finely h...
$300.00
CONDITION: In good condition. It shows its age and uses. No cracks, repairs, or restorations. Please see ...
$400.00
The censer base is bearing a seal mark in very unusual apocryphal spindly style of” Shuowen Jiezi “Script within a rectangular cartouche.
MEASUREMENTS:
Width across handles: 15.5 cm (6.1 inches).
Height including handles: 10 cm (3.94 inches).
CONDITION:
In very good condi...