$120.00
Arts and Crafts in Late Imperial Russia is the first account of the revival of Russia's kustar art industries peasant crafts of wood carving, toy production, lacemaking, embroidery, and weaving - from i...
$1,400.00
$450.00
Opened, the central leaf shows Christ enthroned in the attitude of blessing with Gospels, flanked by John the Baptist and the Virgin. The left leaves display St. John the Theologian, the saints' prelates Nicholas the Wonderworker and Metropolitan Philip.
On the left fold are Angel the Guardian, saints Zossima, and Sabbatius of Solovetskii Monastery. Russian Cyrillic i...
$490.00
MEASUREMENTS: 11 cm x 8.5cm (4 3/8 in x 3 3/8 in)
Condition: Nice old very dark patina. The icon is in the original condition with nice old very dark patina, no repairs or restorations. Old crack and chips in...
$1,800.00
The icon depicts the Russian Orthodox saint Sergius of Radonezh. On the upper left side, Christ Pantocrator is shown blessing the saint, with the Gospels labeled in the Old Church Slavonic alphabet at the top.
The edges are painted with eight different saints, the family's patron s...
$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...
$2,400.00
With a spherical body rising from a short foot with a central bulbous ring, resting on a splayed foot, the tall, ribbed tubular neck is adorned at the top and bottom with openwork bands of a typical Safavid pattern four-petaled blossom. The top band with remains of turquoise stone inlays may indicate that the bo...
$6,000.00
With bulbous body on a splayed foot, rising to long neck with pronounced torus molding and flaring mouth. decorated in in thickly applied red bole; reciprocating design on body and upper neck looks like teardrop shapes with pointed lobes. It is marked at the base with a hand painted Samson mark with pseudo-Ara...
$590.00
The painting depicts a red-haired young girl sitting on a stool in front of a fireplace and blowing air by the bellows.
The painting is unsigned, however, to the back of the masonite board is taped a scrap of paper with a hand written note “R.S.A J.B. Abercromby”, this note must have been left by someone who knew the name of the artist of the painting.
MEASUREMEN...
$1,200.00
CONDITION: In very good condition with nice old patina.
MEASUREMENTS:
$600.00
The fork has 3 shaped tines and an elaborately designed stem topped with a finial depicting a woman's bust in classical style. This woman represents allegorically Poland, holding the crown of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and backed by a laurel wreath.
The back of the fork's handle is skillfully carved with a Lithuanian heraldic coat of arms known as Pahonia-Vytis. ...
$4,000.00
The mace is composed of many separate elements of silver, including a spherical gilt silver head (hollow inside) covered by intricate lattice filigree work decorated with garland and flowers enclosed at the bottom and the top by gilded silver rosettes and surmounted at the top with a gilt silver bulbous finial (hollow inside).
The baluster shape handle is made of h...
$3,500.00
A brass body of classical dome form and small conical finial surmounted by an elaborated openwork finial, the central wide band adorned with four large copper, inlaid and pierced, medallions containing a calligraphic Arabic inscription, profusely inlaid in thick silver and interrupted by four elaborated cart...
$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...
$900.00
The dagger has a long, curved, double-edged, sturdy steel blade with a medial ridge.
The hilt is made of one piece of horn and has an elegant design. It is carved with a central knob and a typical hooked pommel that is decorated with a silver domed rosette. The base is mounted in a low-grade silver ferrule set with fiv...
$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...
$1,000.00
The scarce type blade is hand-forged from Damascus steel with an excellent quality watered pattern. The blade is sturdy, tapered, and double-edged, with a waving (flamboyant) form reminiscent of the Indonesian keris–kris.
The hilt of a rare form features an ornate solid silver guard engraved with intricate scrolls and a three-stage tubular grip made of solid silver with engra...
$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-...
$280.00
MEASUREMENTS Approximately:
Width: 35 cm (13.78 inches) Height: 23 cm (9.06 inches)
CO...
$7,000.00
The spoon's stem has low relief on both sides and showcases a detailed standing figure of a French Royal Musketeer playing the bugle. The musketeer is dressed in a typical 17th-century elaborate musketeer uniform with a cape, a sash across the torso, and a feathered hat on his head. His left-hand rests on the hilt of his rapier sword, and he wears musketeer bucket top boots on his legs. The spoon bowl...
$4,500.00
The middle part divided into two baluster form parts surmounted by a large bulbous furnace decorated en suite with the base with ban...
$400.00
$450.00
$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...
$1,800.00
CONDITION: It is in good condition, with no cracks or repairs, except...
$600.00
$380.00
The pin was made by the native people and used to fasten the manta or traditional women's shawl, signifying the wearer's wealth.
The beautiful hand-hammered coin silver spoon-shaped pin has edges decorated with marks made to resemble rope turnings.
The spoon bowl has edges decorated with marks that resemble rope-tur...
$1,400.00
$1,250.00
Dagger consists of a rounded steel hilt with downturned solid steel-shaped quillons in typical Moorish Al-Andalus Nasrid style and a hand-forged double-edged steel blade. With its plane steel scabbard with a shaped shoe.
In the famous Al-Faisal Museum for Arab-Islamic Art, in the Collection of Islamic Art, including arms and armor, in a specia...
$170.00
The M1913 bayonet was one of only a few bayonet types to utilize checkered wood grips.
In 1913, the "Machete Bayoneta Modelo 1913" was adopted to replace the knife bayonet identified as M1893. However, when the M1916 short rifle was adopted in 1916, the M1913 bayonet became designated for use with the M1916 short rifle instead.
It was subsequently also designated for use with the M1943 short rifle.
A ricasso m...
$250.00
The handle of the letter opener is finely hand-chiseled in low relief with a "Nasrid" arabesque pattern.
Toledo Damascus metal artwork was created during the Victorian era in the 19th century in Toledo, Spain. The craftsmen of Toledo meticulously designed each object and then handcrafted it, finely hand-chiseled it in steel, and then the surface was gold damascened using ...
$4,000.00
Buddha Sakyamuni stands in samabhanga, with his left hand stretched downwards along his body, his delicate face with a serene expression, downcast eyes with heavy eyelids under arched eyebrows.
He is wearing a monastic robe - samghati with a belt around his waist and a centerfold falling straight down. He is adorned with jewelry; elaborate necklaces, bra...
$1,000.00
This type of footed cups usually were used to hold offering on a home Buddhist altar....
$550.00
This type of footed offering tray was used to hold offering on a home Buddhist altar.
CONDITION: In very good condition all mother of pearl inla...
$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 ...
$2,400.00
The bodhisattva is shown seated in lalitasana on a lotus base, with his hands held in shuni mudra. The bare chest and shoulders are adorned with coral jewelry beaded with natural coral stones, and the elaborate tiara and the flanking stems of blossoming lotus are embellished with natural turquoise stones. The sculpture was cast with fine details in two separate elements,...