$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...
$900.00
$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...
$1,500.00
Obverse: The bust of the King is to the right, around the inscription D G AVGVSTVS II REX POLON ELECT SAXON. It is signed under the bust "VESTNER. F."
On the obverse, to the right of the King's bust, there is an inscription from the end of the 18th century commemorating the birth of Barbara Ann...
$1,000.00
The bowl's Interior is decorated in copper lustre with a geometric pattern and two cobalt blue rings on a beige ground. Irregularly shaped handles with barbed rims, painted with copper lustre vegetal motifs. Reverse adorned with scrolling motifs.
Hispano Moresque ware was initially a style of Islamic pottery created in Muslim Spain by Moorish po...
$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...
$1,200.00
The leading edge drawn up to an acute point capped with a brass finial, pierced with a slipped trefoil and small circles, tubular socket flattened on the inside with chequered rear-hammer peen. Mounted on its distinctive original wooden haft.
REFERENCES:
Illustriert...
$2,000.00
The charger plate of shallow form with a wide rim and a raised central boss adorned with a sunburst motif, enclosed by a large band painted with cobalt blue arrows on a beige ground with copper-lustre abstract vegetal motifs.
A wide rim molded with raised swirling panels of gadroon motifs painted in cobalt blue and co...
$800.00
DIMENSIONS: Approximately
Length: 18.7 cm (7.36 inches)
Width: 13.7cm (5.39 inches)
Height: 18 cm (7.09 inches)
REFERENCES: Similar Otto...
$750.00
The front and back of the inkwell are adorned with low relief incised decor, which depicts a popular 17th-century Russian topic known as "Fight of the Lion and Unicorn." This topic was often used in Russian art and literature, symbolizing the struggle between good and evil.
$3,000.00
The exterior side panels with scrolled borders, finely hand chased and engraved with flower heads and stylized foliage.
High-ranking officials of the Ottoman army used this type of Turkish Ottoman stirrups. These stirrups are rare and important ...
$3,000.00
REFERENCES:
1. A similar tray is published in the Sot...
$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 ...
$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...
$3,500.00
Jesus's head is inclined to the left, and his long, curly hair cascades down his shoulders. The emaciated torso of Jesus is draped ...
$1,600.00
$1,200.00
The square-form censer is raised on four mask feet. The body is molded with archaistic bands of stylized dragons, lappets, and flower scrolls.
PROVENANCE: A 17th-century Ming Dynasty censer sold for GBP 3,750 (US$4,904) in Christie's London auction catalog "The Art of China: Including Private English Collections" in 2019. Plea...
$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 ...
$650.00
Decorated with repoussé and punched ornament of flower heads and scrolling tendrils, the front adorned with a green man mask, and applied at the rear with serpentine handle.
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 16 cm (6.3 inches). Width: handle to spout: 12 cm (4.72 inches)
CONDITION:...
$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...
$1,300.00
$2,400.00
A Hispano Moresque ware was a style of initially Islamic pottery created in Muslim Spain by Moorish potters. The Moors introduced tin-glazed pottery...
$3,500.00
$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...
$600.00
300-year-old Persian Safavid dynasty ...
$3,400.00
The sword's hilt has a finely hand-carved hardwood grip, with beautiful natural grains, and a small pistol-shaped pommel. The brass crossguard has short, slightly downturned quillons, bud-shaped terminals, and a pair of langets. It is made of two halves riveted by iron pins at the terminals. Three iron rivets secure the wooden grip and the crossguard to the tang of the blade. Addi...
$650.00
DIMENSIONS: Approximately.
Length: 18 cm (7.09 i...
$1,500.00
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 25.5 cm (10 inches). Diameter: 13.5 cm (5.31 inches.).
CONDITION...
$900.00
$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 ...
$450.00
$400.00
CONDITION: It is in good condition, showing signs of usage and wear.
MEASUREMENTS: 9 cm ...
$650.00
$2,000.00
The wooden scabbard is bound in dark green velvet trimmed at the middle with finely braided gilt br...
$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 ...
$300.00
CONDITION: in good condition considering its age except for chip on the rim , nice age patina.
MEASUREMENTS: Height: 8 ¾ inches (22,2 cm).