Finely painted and early Indo-persian manuscript depicting a important with elephants and royalty. The other side with text. Finely coloured and gilt in parts!

Size: 24,7 cm x 17 cm.

Ex. Strømberg Antiques, Copenhagen, 1980s.

Wooden panel inlaid with mother-of-pearl, bone and ebony. It must be a piece of a very nice old Ottoman part of furniture. This type of decoration was made from the 16th century in Turkey at the height of the empire and is found today on very rare prestigious furniture...

A nice early powder flask, Greater Persia, shaped as the first stomach of the Camel with fine engravings.

Size: 25 cm.

Condition: Intact, but with much patina and wear.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection and the flask comes with an identity card from the collection, added in 1992.

A lovely lot of handpicked bronze stamp seals with fine caligraphy, Ottoman / Syrian?, c. 15th.-18th. cent. AD.

The lot incl. a couple of rare larger seals of fine style as well as early personal seals with greek letters!

Condition: Choice, fine patinas, one seal bend and one with handle lost.

An Islamic seal in a terrific quality and extra large size, probably Persian, c. 17th.-18th. cent. AD or earlier!

Engraved with finely caligraphy, round seal base with a tall domed handle, pierced at the top.

Size: 43 mm. in diameter and 40 mm tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, lovely redish patina.

Ex. Baldwins Auctions 2005...

A very attractive and great condition gilt Laten spoon, English c. 1600-1620.

Acorn top and having a wire ‘gulley’ down the flat and bevelled tapering stem and a round touchmark in the oval bowl.

Size: 17,7 cm...

A beautiful pottery bowl with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern on the interior. Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.

The bowl in an almost untouched state with fine silvery iridescence on the surface of the exterior. Very beautiful colours.

Size: 14 cm. in diameter. - c. 5,5 inches.

Condition: Choice and intact, spots of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice bowl.

Ex...

A very nice Iron Chest Key, Probably Northern Europe, early late 16th.-early 17th. century.

Almost round bow, strong, thick collar and a rather massive key.

Size: 12 cm.

Condition: Choice, fine patina.

Provenance: Birgit og Bent Wolstrup Collection

South German Nuremberg hand-hammered brass alms dish, late Gothic, early 16th century, circa 1500-1530 AD, with a rare pattern stamped in relief. The artwork portrays the Blessed Virgin Mary standing with Christ the Child. She is depicted as the Queen of Heaven, standing upon the crescent moon and surrounded by a mandorla of sun rays. She is dressed in elaborate garments and wears a crown...

A rare stoneware pitcher with salt glaze. Full-bellied shape with wide conical neck and flat handle. The base is festooned with “thumb” marks. The body is decorated with three medallions depicting a woman. A type called Trichterhalskrug in German. This stoneware pitcher was made in the Siegburg region in the 15th/16th century. It is covered with a fine salt glaze.

Size: 12,7 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice for the type...

Rare antique Persian Kubachi ware bowl or charger featuring two peacocks in a garden and racing horses on its outer rim. Heavy cracquelure as expected in such a piece. 15 1/2" in diameter and 3" deep.

A pair of late Renaissance bronze spoons, England, dating ca. 1620-1640.

Excellent early European spoons, likely once silvered, nor in a brass / bronze colour. A rare set of early kitchenware, very interesting and from a very old Danish collection.

Size: ca. 17,5 cm. each.

Condition: Excellent for type.

Provenance: Birgit og Bent Wolstrup Collection

A lovely and scarce Italian closed combat helmet, with eye slits a come or ridge and a hinge at the side; it also have a produding iron guard that could also function as sunscreen, c. 1580-1610.

"Savoyard" helmets are a distinctive form of late Italian close-helmet worn by cuirassiers, the heavy cavalry outfitted with plate armor worn only to the knee and armed with pistols and swords...

Scarce authentic antique medieval Islamic ceramic bowl, Syria or Egypt from the 14th-15th century, Mamluk period. It rests on a disc-shaped short foot and is decorated with black and blue painted underglaze. The interior features a central medallion with a scrolling lotus flower, while the walls have a band of lotus petal lappets enclosing cloud-like rings...

A very attractive and rare box-lock with large engraved plate, German or North-Italian (?), early baroque 17th. century.

Exceptional quality workmanship with a finely engraved box and carved decorations in the openwork style.

Size: 31 cm. long and 15,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice! A very tight lock of great uncorroded metal with a finely maintained greyish and black patina...

A rare and exceptionally large Iron lock with key, from a gate or massive door, South-Germany, Late renaissance period, 16th...

Scarce and very important, Museum Quality, antique,16th century, Turkish Ottoman gilt copper (Tombak) Islamic saddle axe head Balta. The axe head features a flaring downward-curving blade, a central block reinforced with slender vertical ribs, and a protruding rear hammer of a square flaring section.

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...

Beautiful pottery dish with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern, Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.

The Dish in an almost untouched state with fine silvery irridescence on the surface. Very beautiful colours.

Size: 17,7 cm. in diameter. - c. 7 inches.

Condition: Choice and intact, a few places of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice dish.

Ex. Important Danish Private Collection