Catalog (1201)

Bronze signal cannon cast with nail, Spanish colonial, 16th.-17th. century.

Short flat-bottomed bronze cannons like this one were apparently in widespread use throughout the colonies but particularly in Peru, where they were fired either to send up signals or to test powder.

With touch-hole near bottom, fluted body.

Size: 6,9 cm. tall and 5,5 cm. thick, with a borehole of ca. 2,8 cm.

Weight: ca. 630 grams, so quite solid construction!

Ex. Da...

Bronze signal cannon cast with nail, Spanish colonial, 16th.-17th. century.

Short flat-bottomed bronze cannons like this one were apparently in widespread use throughout the colonies but particularly in Peru, where they were fired either to send up signals or to test powder.

With very crude touch-hole near bottom, just below an iron nail of mysterious purpose that was cast crosswise into the cannon (its rusted ends protruding from the sides).

Size: 7,5 cm. tall an...

A rare and interesting large pottery jug of baluster form, with ribbed surface and finely glazed applied details, likely Westerwald, 18th. century AD.

Beautiful piece with black glazed decoration and intact pewter lid with rim decoration.

Size: 26 cm.

Condition: Choice for type, completely intact with some light wear from use at the rim.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark. Carl-Johan was a vivid collector ...

German Westerwald stoneware tankard, ca. 1680-1720. Decorated in blue and manganese, with moulded bands of floral decoration

A fine intact mug with a beautiful decoration, no lid.

Size: 16,5 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice. No breaks, no hairlines to the rim, no chips. No lid present.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark. Carl-Johan was a vivid collector and among other areas, he held an impressive collection of ...

A German Medieval stoneware jug: of ribbed baluster form with strap handle and thumb moulded base, Siegburg, 13th/14th century.

A beautiful example of late medieval pottery with an incredibly thick and attractive glaze for the type.

Size: 22 cm. tall.

Condition: Superb for type, no breaks or repairs, no hairlines, a few minor dings from old use and very finely patinated.

Cf. 'Steinzeug' Kunstgewerbemuseum Der Stadt Koln, page 160, pl.83.

Pro...

A beautiful and completely intact German tankard, Westerwald, dating late 17th.-early 18th. century.

Finely carved and glazed floral and carved garlanded decoration in Cobalt and with a fine early pewter lid with thumbrest. A real gem and incredible that it has survived the ages in this pristine condition.

The lid is pewter marks on the inside.

Size: 20,5 cm. tall and 15 cm. wide including the handle.

Condition: Superb for the early type. No breaks, no...

A sizeable intact and thus very rare Jacoba type stoneware jug, Siegburg, Germany, dating to the late 1300s.

Beautiful example of early medieval pottery. Nice balance and intact glaze, deep symethric ridges. These are usually cracked and restored to some extent, but this comes fully intact with an unimportant chip to the base from time of use.

Size: 21,8 cm. tall and quite massive.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark...

A sizeable and absolutely intact and thus very rare Jacoba stoneware jug, Siegburg, Germany, dating to the late 1300s.

Beautiful example of early medieval pottery. These are usually cracked and restored to some extent, but this comes fully intact with a micro chip to the inside to the rim.

Size: 20,5 cm. tall.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark. Carl-Johan was a vivid collector and among other areas, he held an impres...

Important large 17 cm. bronze mortar with pestle, European, Flemish/Dutch or German, ca. 1500-1550.

Beautiful Gothic style, with widening body and fine zoomorphic lion handles. Very large size and done in an early bronze alloy, somewhat polished. Comes with very old pestle, possible from the 17th. century.

Size: Massive apothecary mortar, 17 cm. tall and 14 cm. wide, weighing ca. 5,2 kilograms, incl. the 23,5 cm. pestle.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hum...

A unusually large and exceptional German tankard, Westerwald, ca. 1700-1720 AD.

As perhaps the best tankard of the entire Hummeltoft collection, we presents this stunning tankard in original condition with the original stamped pewter lid. As something very rare, the lid is also 'edged' in the rim with 12 flat edges. Beutiful quality thumbrest, very large.

The lid is inscribed with a later private dating of 1745 along with owner initials on the top and with three clear pewte...

Important and very impressive bronze mortar with pestle, European (German?), ca. 1550-1580.

Beautiful Gothic style, with the square handles and lovely chiselled floral decoration. With the original large bronze pestle and both with a terrific dark bronze patina.

Size: Massive apothecary mortar, 15,7 cm. wide and 13 cm. tall, weighing ca. 5 kilograms, incl. the 23 cm. pestle.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan Hummeltoft (1958-2020), Birkerød, Denmark. Carl-Jo...

A lovely and sizeable alabaster jar carved in a wonderful veined or banded stone, Egyptian, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C.

A fine vessel of a very attractive design and stone. Completely intact with ancient wear, encrustations and patina, as well as typical inclusions and hairlines in the stone. many signs of ancient drilling tecnique in the interior of the vessel.

Size: 90 mm. wide and 85 mm tall, with rather thick walls.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-johan ...

A lovely and impressive large stone effigy sculpture of a bird eating a snake, Atlantic Watershed, Costa Rica, Nicoya Culture c. 800-1000 AD.

A very interesting scultural relief carved in the round at one side with motif of a larger bird eating or killing a snake with it's beak. The figure done in a light greyish stone, perhaps vulcanic.

Size: 21,5 cm. long and 16 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice and intact, nice patina.

Provenance: The Estate of Carl-jo...

A highly important and rare German stoneware pouring jug, Westerwald, ca. 1670.

A very interesting and rare type that we've never seen before from Westerwald(!), with the intact and original elaborate pewter mount. This massive vessel was used to fill the smaller stoneware steins and table jugs with beverage. It's easy to date since this particular decoration in Manganese and Cobalt was used in the 1670s only.

The vessel profusely decorated with impressed floral motifs; As ...

An outstanding and extremely rare German stoneware pouring jug, Raeren or Westerwald, renaissance, ca. 1550-1580.

A very interesting and rare type, preserved intact today; this massive vessel was used to fill the smaller stoneware steins and table jugs with beverage. The brown stoneware type points to raeren, but could have been made in Westerwald as well, in the period prior to the production of the famous cobalt and mangan pottery.

The vessel profusely decorated with imp...

A couple of rare vessels in red / black, Quimbaya, Ecuador or Columbia, 7th.-14th. cent. AD

Lot consists of a lovely pedestal rattle vessel with small perferations on the foot and applications of animals on the rim and a jug with a human face impressed on the neck, Anthropomorphic style and decorated with black on red lines.

Size: The pedestal, 15,5 cm. wide and 9,3 cm. tall; the jug 15 cm. tall.

Condition: The pedestal bowl intact with minimal chips, the jug re...

A very nice lot of Quimbaya / Narino ceramics, 7th.-14th. cent. AD.

Inclding a large Zoomorphic fragment with a feline head, two choice cups and a larger bowl with a chip.

Size: Up to 15,8 cm. for the fragment (max)

Provenance: Inger and Ebbe Gotzche Frederiksen, Espergærde, Denmark. The couple lived years in South America, in Ecuador in 1958, Columbia from 1964-1966 and later in 1976 in Peru and Bolivia, and in all of those places they bought the collection.

The largest ceramic vessel from Quimbaya we've ever handled! Bolivia, 7th.-15th. cent. AD.

This piece is surely massive and would have contained a huge amount of food or liquid. Sort of disc-shaped or compressed globular shape, with twin handles built of extremely solid ceramic stoneware, with the upperpart glazed in red. With remnants of a black pattern on the surface.

Size: 34 cm. wide and 23-24 cm tall.

Condition: Superb for the type, intact with a short thin...