Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (458)

Metal frame heavily gold-gilded, blackened, and highlighted with silver...

DIMENSIONS: Approximately: Length: 18cm (7.9 inches). Height: 15 cm (5.91 inches). Width: 14.5 cm (5.71 inches).

CONDITION: Showing age and usage with a dark patina.

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...

Made of ceramic with sancai glazing, elaborately molded-in raised pattern, the boot's toe is adorned with a monster mask and richly glazed in cobalt blue, turquoise, brown, and cream beige.

CONDITION: Shows the age and use, with minor age wear.

In good condition, considering its age of more than 376 years, no damage or repairs...

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: The vase is in good overall condition. As the photos show there is minor old damage; one of child's hand is missing and there is a crack on the body...

The sculpture is signed (impressed stamp) with Chinese characters in a diamond-shaped frame at the base.

The figure is finely hand carved with great details...

The dagger is topped with a hood crafted from meticulously woven fiber string, and it's further embellished with eight tassels made of a captivating mix of cassowary feathers, shells, and bone beads.

CONDITION: Good, well preserved. It shows signs of usage in all dagger parts with a dark, natural patina...

Authentic antique late 19th – early 20th century African ancestral bronze mask with pierced eyes and mouth, decorated with incised pattern and pierced with a hole on each side and another hole on the forehead for suspension.

The interior hand painted near the edge with the museum or collection accession number.

CONDITION: Showing the age and usage with old dark natural patina inside and out.

DIMENSIONS:  Approximately 20.5 x 11.8 cm (8 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches)...

Original 19th–20th century African Kurumba headdress adoné design in the graceful form of an antelope head with long neck and slender horns, decorated with horizontal stripes, rising from the top of the head, and echoed by the long forward-curved ears...

CONDITION: Signs of usage and wear, the wood with fine old natural dark patina, old cracks and chips, part of the side broken off, small white points and blotches from the wall paint.

APPROXIMATE DIMENSIONS:

Diameter: 42.5 cm (16.73 inches). Height: 8 cm (3.15 inches).

PROVENANCE: Old collection of tribal art Canada.

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Made of biscuit porcelain in a crescent shape in the classic Wu Shan "Five Mountains" form.

The base is recessed and pierced at both ends with small holes.

The ceramic brush rest in the form of the mountain has been a popular design since the Ming dynasty.

REFERENCES:

A similar brush rest is published in the Lempertz catalogue: Auction 1061, Asiatische Kunst, 04...

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...