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Our best and earliest bronze travellers icon. A very early and attractive bronze travellers icon, made way before the Ban on bronze travellers icon making by Peter the Great in 1722. This icon dates to the 16th. century with the fine renaissance style. Note the fine loop, decorated with the head of Christ.

Size: 71 x 50 mm.

Condition: Good Very fine. Lovely thick dark brown patina, finely preserved details and rare this nice and uncleaned.

Ex. Old Danish private ...

A nice old Chinese jade pendant of the Qing Dynasty, 18th.-19th. cent. AD.

The pendant is in the shape a double fruit with leafs and loop at the top carved in celadon Nephrite.

Size: 6,5 cm. long.

Ex. Old Danish Collection.

An exceptional bellarmine jug or Bartmannskrug as they are called in Europe. Made in Germany, cologne region, probably Frechen, late 16th. century AD., and exported to Holland, as it's bearing a medallion with the Coat of Arms of Amsterdam.

On the globular jug, a strong head of a bearded man with classic naturalistic features. Below the long beard, an oval medallion with the crowned coat of arms. Fine Tiger-glaze ware piece.

A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded...

A very nice and intact bellarmine jug or Bartmannskrug as they are called in Europe, c. 1660-1680.

A fearsome head on the neck of a bearded man with fangs as teeth. Below is a floral medallion. Fine Tiger-glaze ware piece.

A Bartmann jug (from German Bartmann, "bearded man"), also called a Bellarmine jug, is a type of decorated salt-glazed stoneware that was manufactured in Europe throughout the 16th and 17th centuries, especially in the Cologne region, in what is today we...

Probably, our finest and surely the heaviest silver icon, we've had for a while! Russian Orthodox icon with an amazing wrought and chisseled Oklad, dating 1871.

This is NOT the usual foliage thin silver sheet oklad but a a heavy thick hammered and chisseled silver oklad in a baroque style with relief heads in each corner and weighing several 100s of grams in .84 silver. Fine gilt to the details. The icon itself with four saints and Christ with halo in the sky.

Height 32cm,...

Icon with St. Barlaam of Khutyn, finely decorated in a silver foliage Ritza.

Oklad hallmarked with the 84, city arms of Saint Petersburg, Cyrillic makers mark A.G.

Height: 32 cm, width: 27 cm.

Condition: Choice VF, with a finely painted Icon underneath the Ritza, lioght wear and tear to the silver but in a fine collectable condition.

German Private Collection.

A superb quality and extremely large for type decorative brass dish or Baptismal dish, as it's also called, Nuremburg, 16th.-17th. century.

With it's highly unusual size of 52 cm. and the fine execution, this dish comes from a very rich family estate. The dish shows a high-born renaissance lady in the center with well executed incised concentrhic decoration at the fan. Lovely deep black patina on the backside.

Size: c. 52 cm. in diameter and quite solid construction.
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A finely painted Nepalese Thangka, early 20th. cent.

The circle of life and Buddhist realms are depicted in this beautiful thangka painting. Hand painted using traditional technique with different colors, decorations and motif. On cotton canvas.

Size: 70x50 cm. (for the picture itself)

Ex. Danish Estate collection

A finely painted Nepalese Thangka, early 20th. cent.

The circle of life and Buddhist realms are depicted in this beautiful thangka painting. Hand painted using traditional technique with different colors, decorations and motif. On cotton canvas.

Size: 57×40 cm. (for the picture itself)

Ex. Danish Estate collection

A pair of attractive dishes, finely painted with floral motifs in blue and white, China, Kangxi Period, 1661–1722 AD.

Size: c. 22 cm. in diameter.

Condition: Dish 1: Intact, microscopic wear to the glaze of the rim. Dish 2: Intact, but for a very faint short hairline and micro-wear to the glaze of the rim which is almost always the case with the type of thin dinner plate.

Ex. Old Danish Collection

A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.

Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.

Size: 18 x 13 cm. nicely framed in a gilt frame so that only the text is visible and with COA from a German dealer on the back.

Condition: Exceptional for age and typ...

A superb gilt and coloured parchment leaf from a religious work, France, c. 1450.

Han-written page with the tiniest details and among the finest we've had ever of the early type from the late medieval period of the 15th. century. The decorations includes lavish use of leaf gold to highlight letters.

Size: 15 x 20 cm. nicely framed in a gilt frame so that only the text is visible and with COA from a German dealer on the back.

Condition: Exceptional for age and t...

An early 'Grand Tour' style large Estate stamp seal, European, probably c. 1820-1850.

The seal cast with an heroic bust of a greek god of war, probably Ares or Athena in the classical style. A monogram of two capital letters finely engraved in the seals base.

Size: 12,5 cm. tall and weighing 225 grams.

Condition: Nice Very fine, intact and with remnants of original silver and gilt in the details.

Provenance: Estate of the Danish Artist Rolf Gjeds...

A fine antique silver mounted snuff bottle carved in smoky agate in a large and impressive size, Qing Dynasty.

The bottle carved with floral decoration and with a thick silver mounting also finely chiselled with floral motifs. The corresponding spoon in coral-coloured glass. High purity silver with silver marks.

Size: 10 cm. tall and c. 5,9 cm. wide. Thick and heavy weighing 266 grams!

Condition: Good Very fine, intact with nice patina and smooth wear.

A lovely enamel silver box, made in the mid 20th. century and mounted with an exceptional quality baroque carving of winged Puttis, c. late 17th. century AD.

High quality silver work in sterling silver with enamel, probably Austrian work (?). In the center a fantastic detailed pastorial carving of 4 Puttis eating grapes and carressing a lamb, probably a work from a Flemish master (Flandern).

Size: 120 mm wide x 85 mm. and 28 mm. tall. Weight: 330 grams.

Conditi...

A stunning French silver box with a beautiful repoussé of Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), the famed French emperor whose military and political actions shaped greatly the European politics in the early 19th century.

The relief of “Napoleon Empereur Des Français Et Roi D’Italie”, (Napoleon the emperor of the French people and king of Italy) is visible on the cover centering the profile of Napoleon Bonaparte in his famous laurel wreath decoration. On the sid...

High quality early oval silver box, probably made for Tobacco, European (British?), c. 1760-1780.

Beatiful floral design on the top and on the sides garlanded and framed bas relief portraits of rulers. Super interesting old silver stamps (see closeups), incl. a winged Griffin and a crowned A. The purity is c. 900.

Size: 9 cm. long, 6 cm. wide and 4,5 cm. tall., weighing 139 grams

Condition: Choice! Some expected wear, but no dings or larger scratches and nice t...

A massive mounted Lion head or mask table receiver in solid bronze, c. 1650-1680.

A very early lion mask as an ornamented mechanical return on an oversized late renassance pool table from a noble estate.

A very rare early prototype of the mechanical returns from the later 18th.-19th. century french tables. This lion mask is really solidly made in an attractive 17th. century bronze alloy. The mask expertly modelled with sensitive features and plenty of details. The movable ...