$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...
$900.00
Clad in royal attire with extensive adornments, reflecting the fashion of the Thai royal court, the Buddha sits in a virasana (heroic posture) on a three-tiered pedestal.
His face with a thoughtful expression highlighted by downward gazing eyes, the Buddha sits in intense meditation.
Full lips, an aquiline nose, a decidedly oval face, and hair in the form ...
$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 ...
$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).
$1,400.00
This brush rest was cast in the form of a sinuous dragon with hand-chiseled details. It is further distinguished by a single horn and a bifurcated tail that coils and unfurls.
This brush stand is more than a functional object; it is an imaginative and auspicious sculpture designed to decorate a scholar's table. Its neck, body, and tail provide places for resting writing...
$1,700.00
It is fitted with a porcelain teacup from the Chinese Qing Dynasty, skillfully hand-painted with auspicious symbols, double happiness end bats.
A hand-hammered cup stand is made of solid silver, has a cylindrical, tapered foot, is finely hand chased with double Dorje Vajra among scrolling patterns, and three gilded medallions engraved with Padma (lotus).
The platform dish ...
$750.00
Cast in full relief with a pair of chilong dragons clambering along the side with their front claws grasping the rim and long bifurcated curled tails.
The recessed base is cast and chiseled with the Chinese character "Xuan" within a square.
This Chinese character "Xuan" is possibly an abbreviation for the Chinese M...
$350.00
The jar is handcrafted, strongly potted with a cylindrical tapering form, high shoulder, short neck, and lightly ground down rim.
The body is potted with horizontal coiled ribbing and covered with glaze in various shades of grey celadon.
REFERENCES:
Similar jars are in The Smithsonian's National Museum
https://asia.si.edu/object/S2005.51/
and The Brit...
$2,500.00
Dark blue satin silk is finely embroidered in colored floss satin silk with butterflies flitting amidst peonies, chrysanthemums, and other various flowers.
Sleeves finished with cream-colored satin silk bands embroidered with various figural scenes, bordered with multicolored ribbons and light blue satin.
The front - opening with four toggles and gilt–metal buttons and trimmed together wit...
$750.00
A compressed bulbous body raised on three short cabriole legs rising to a waisted neck under a galleried rim.
The exterior is inlaid with silver wire with three figures of peasants in the field carrying garden tools, and silver inlaid bands of bamboo branches separate the figures.
The bronze circular stand is supported by three scroll-form feet. The rim is inl...
$3,000.00
The ghanta is cast in two parts: a silvery metal bell decorated with a band of vajra symbols and the shoulder adorned with sacred syllables in a written lantsa script.
The bronze handle is formed by the Bodhisattva's head, crowned by nine-pronged dorje below the thumb ring.
The clapper's interior is decorated with a six petals lotus flower head.
The accompanying nine-...
$600.00
DETAILS: The vase is composed of two separate parts soldered together. It is in a baluster shape and rests on a molded circular foot with a low round body rising to a tall trumpet neck.
The vase's body is inlaid with silver and copper and depicts a Vietnamese aristocrat on horseback and a man pulling a lady in a rickshaw in the countryside.
The neck is silver inlaid with the two longev...
$350.00
The censer was cast and then hand-finished with various tools, including files. The perfectly composed oval body is raised on three feet, surrounded on both sides by softly curved handles.Censer has beautiful lines and proportions.
CONDITION: In good condition considering its age, showing its age and use.
MEASUREMENTS:Width across handles: 7 cm (2.8 inches).He...
$550.00
The lion is seated with the left paw raised on a brocade ball, and its scrolling tail flicks upwards.
Well cast in bronze and hand finished with fine details, the body is applied with swirling locks of hair and smaller curls.
Since reproductions of Chinese Bronzes flood the market, we would like to inform our clients that this is a 100% authentic a...
$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...
$1,200.00
The broad-shouldered globular body rises from a flat base to a short neck with a lipped rim, covered with a rich glaze of various shades of amber brown, stopping neatly 2 cm above the foot ring.
The sides are finely decorated with six medallions incised in low relief, containing lotus and chrysanthemum flowers with small birds and leaves between the medallions.
The jar is finely p...
$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 ...
$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...
$1,600.00
Tempera on wood panel. The overall quality of the painting is of the highest degree.
The icon depicts Emperor Saint Constantine the Great and his mother, Empress Saint Helen, both in imperial gowns holding the True Cross.
The clothing is finely shaded, and gem-encrusted crowns and oval gem brooches are in keeping with t...
$1,800.00
Very decorative example of the Victorian representation of the early Renaissance royal shield, profusely embossed in high relief and chiseled with battle scenes in front of the castle, with Renaissance-era soldiers and knights in armor, armed with falchion's swords, rondel daggers, axes, arrow bows, and...
$600.00
The outer face is decorated with a carved traditional Ukrainian geometric pattern of raised ribs, and the inner face is with an iron loop for suspension.
REFERENCES:
Three very similar powder flasks are published in a book from Ukrainian state museums: "Ukrainian Cossack State" by Volodymyr Nedyak, Page: 239.
Also, a similar Ukrainian Cossack ...
$3,000.00
Beak-shaped fluke cusped above and below, and an open socket extended on each side to form two waved or flame-sha...
$2,300.00
Open socket ext...
$7,800.00
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...
$450.00
Black leather cantle with a central brass tree-shaped badge.
One sporran is with black leather back with a suspension loop and a small heart embossed back purse, and the second one is with a green leather back, a suspension loop, and a small back purse embossed with a Scottish thistle.
MEASUREMENTS: Each sporran measures 26 cm (10.2 inches) from top to edge.
...
$600.00
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.
Please see al...
$1,200.00
In the 17th century, the sharp cutting edges of axes were grounded as soldiers retired from military service and began using the Czekan as a walking cane, a sign of a ...
$900.00
The detachable cover is decorated with an equestrian battle scene, depicting Prince Józef Poniatowski riding his horse into Elster River during the Battle of Leipzig.
Prince Józef Antoni Poniatowski was a Polish leader, general, minister of war, and army chief who became Marshal of the French Empire was killed while crossing the river El...
$200.00
In Spanish, these knives are also called "naife," derived from the English word knife. DETAILS: Straight, single-edged, sturdy, hand-forged steel blade with forte covered with alpaca silver. The hilt comprises a round grip and a pommel made of layers in various shades of buffalo horn and brass, mounted in alpaca silver ferrule and collar, and ...
$400.00
The sturdy, tapered, double-edged steel blade of a diamond cross-section has a very sharp point. The dagger is signed illegibly on ricasso by the maker, possibly in the Cyrillic alphabet.
The casting is of very good quality,...
$2,000.00
The wooden scabbard is bound in dark green velvet trimmed at the middle with finely braided gilt br...
$6,500.00
Polish hussars used this type of saber ...
$2,500.00
Watercolor and gouache on a natural wafer.
The count is depicted in a general green uniform with a red collar embroidered with gold oak leaves, gold epaulets, a black stock, wearing a blue moiré sash of the Impe...
$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.
...
$800.00
CONDITION: It is in very good condition, with ...
$650.00
CONDITION: The sculptures are in good condition overall, except for minor damages such as a small chip on the corner of the base of one figure, some slight losses to the silver wire inlay, and minor age ...