Catalog: Antiques: Regional Art (1750)

A pair of interesting early bronze opium weights of Arakan, Burma, made just after Shan occupation in the late 18th. cent.

Hamsa birds with one spike in the manor of the Shan weights from 1770s-. As typical for these attractive weights, they are made in a rather crude provincial style to cover the need for weights used as currency. Also note the round or semicircular bases.

Weight: c. 313-320 grams each...

Tibetan, c. 16th.-18th. century. The bell is made in a silverish bronze metal, with the vajra handle once gilt. Most of these bells are from the 19th.-20th...

Nice lot of two smaller buddha figures, Thailand and probably used inside amulets of shrines, c. 15th.-18th. cent. AD.

The larger buddha is probably from c. 18th. century but could be earlier, finely details, sukhothai style with nice old patina. The other excarvated and probably dating pre 16th. century at least if not medieval.

Size: c. 6 cm. tall for the larger and 5,1 cm...

A wonderful guaranteed authentic silver mounted snuff bottle in celadon porcelain, dating to Quan Zhi, 1720-1750 AD.

The bottle elegant scrolls under a finely transperant celadon glaze. Silver stopper with jade, contemporary and correct.

Size: ca. 66 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice and perfect, thus rare from this early period.

A nice scarce Golden Hamsa bronze opium weight of Burma, early weight with octagonal base, c. 1730-1760.

Weight: 155 grams = 10 Tical.

The bird with with beak appendages, octagonal base.

Condition: Very fine, much smooth wear, nice brown patina.

Reff. Gear group 3; Mikkelsen p. 116 fig. 51-52.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection of c...

An Islamic seal in a terrific quality and extra large size, probably Persian, c. 17th.-18th. cent. AD or earlier!

Engraved with finely caligraphy, round seal base with a tall domed handle, pierced at the top.

Size: 43 mm. in diameter and 40 mm tall.

Condition: Good Very fine, lovely redish patina.

Ex. Baldwins Auctions 2005...

Massive and beautiful bronze opium weight of the 100 Tical / 1 Viss, square base, c. 1750-1780.

This Viss weight is very attractive and large with a tall handle and the square base.

Weight: 1515 grams = 1 Viss!

Size: Slightly more than 12 cm. in height and 9 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice Very fine, some wear but fine details and thick green patina.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection of c...

A choice bronze 10 tical opium Toe weight, Burmese ca. 1750-80 AD.

This Toe has the elavated horselike tail with three spikes, and standing on an octagonal and finely stepped base.

Reff: Leif B. Mikkelsen 'Opium Weights', p.132, fig. 70.

Weight: 162 grams = 10 Tical.

Rarity: Common.

Condition: Choice Very Fine. Nice silverish brown patina - another gem from the Abrahamsen Collection.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, import...

A nice early powder flask, Greater Persia, shaped as the first stomach of the Camel with fine engravings.

Size: 25 cm.

Condition: Intact, but with much patina and wear.

Ex. Old Danish Private Collection and the flask comes with an identity card from the collection, added in 1992.

An pair of scarce 2 tical bronze Toe beast Opium weights, Burma, c. 18th. cent.

One with a beautiful glossy excarvated enamel patina and the other finely preserved, featuring different tails and details as well as a square and a octagonal base. Both with verifications marks of 9-rays below the bases.

Conventional wisdom tells us that the octagonal base is the oldest, but we're not certain, both types might be significantly older than Gear and others state.

Weig...

A stunning massive bronze golden Hamsa opium weight of a fine early style, c. 1760-1780 AD.

Weight: 311 = 20 Tical and corresponds to a weight-standard of 15,55 grams, which place it in the mid 18th. century.

The golden Hamsa with lovely details and standing on an large octagonal base stamped with the 9-rayed star.

Condition: Choice Very Fine! Lovely brown patina, some overall wear as always with earlier Golden Hamsas.

Reff. Gear group 3; Mikkelsen ...

A very rare massive Bi glass disc, made in very dense fine Peking glass, imitation rock-crystal, Late Ming-Early Qing dynasty, 17th.-18th. century.

Impressive piece done in an achaeistic manor, in high relief depicting a Chilong / Lion, carved and finely polished in transperant glass.

The glass disc was made in a rivial period in Chinese art, where all sorts of ancient items in different stone types were imitated in glass. This particular massive disc is extremely rare and ...

Massive and beautiful bronze opium weight of the 50 Tical / 1/2 Viss, with square base, c. 1750-1780.

This Viss weight is very attractive and large with a tall handle and the square base.

Weight: 807 grams = 1!2 Viss!

Condition: Choice Very fine, some wear but fine details and thick brown-green patina.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection of c. 250 Opium weights, hand-picked from 1991-2006, by the collector f...

A high quality massive heavy bronze figure of a seated deity, probably Sri Devi / Lakshmi, holding implements and tall headdress and a breast band around her sizable attributes, South Indian, perhaps Tamil Nadu, c. 17th.-18th. century or earlier.

Our best bronze figure from this collection with unusually crisp and deligate engravings on all parts of the surface.

Size: c. 90 mm. tall and weighing a hefty 271 grams.

Condition: Extremely fine, lovely old patina, wi...

A pair of earlier Opium weights, denominal 10 Ticals, (weight approx 160 grams and 152 grams), Shan, late 18th. century.

Nice Shan Ducks of a good size, with fine brown patinas. Both on Hexagonal bases one stepped and one decorated on top.

Condition: Choice, very nicely preserved.

Ex. Large Danish Private Collection, see See Leif Bering Mikkelsen, P. 145.

A fantastic completely matched set of 8 earlier bronze opium weights, all from the same undertype of To's (Straigt up tail and 4-rays), (King Alaungpaya), ca. 1750 AD.

Interesting and scarce set that includes most all the weights that were made - from the massive 20 tical weight all the way down to the tiny and extremely rarely seen 1/4 Tical! This To type has octagonal bases engraved with concenthric lines and fine details to the cast. A star with 4 rays is stamped in front of the ba...

A lovely set of two different smaller weights, incl. an early 18th. century Toe or Chinte 2 Tical from Burma (31,7 grams) and a scarce very old Laotian of Lanna snake weight (8,22 grams), also from the 18th. century.

Condition: Beautiful ancient patina on these two!

Ex. Danish Private Collection

A nice small collection of 19 seal bullae stamped in lead, dating from c. 12th.-14th. century for the oldest up to c. 17th.-18th. century!

Interesting group incl. several with Coat of Arms and perhaps also city stamps.

Size: Up to c. 4,8 cm.

Ex. Hafnia Coins stock, bought in Denmark in the late 1990s. These were priced from €40-€100 each!

Finely painted and early Indo-persian manuscript depicting a Price with his Concubine on a golden couch with two female attendants in front of a Palace with a finely lit landscabe behind. The other side with text. Finely coloured and gilt in parts!

Size: 25 cm x 16 cm.

Ex. Strømberg Antiques, Copenhagen, 1980s.

A fine quality early wooden chinese figure of a male bearded Taoist deity, with much laquer and fine filt overall, China, Qing Dynasty (1644-1912), 18th. century.

An attractive figure of a fine style seated on a tall throne. hidden room in the back no lid.

Size: 25 cm. tall.

Condition: Good very fine for the type with much preserved colours and gilt, nice old patina speaks for the high age of the figure.

Ex. Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from th...

Finely painted and early Indo-persian manuscript depicting a important with elephants and royalty. The other side with text. Finely coloured and gilt in parts!

Size: 24,7 cm x 17 cm.

Ex. Strømberg Antiques, Copenhagen, 1980s.

An interesting early bronze figure of of Kali (probably), Southern Indian, perhaps Tamil Nadu, c. 16th.-18th. century or even earlier.

Size: c. 98 mm. tall.

Condition: Very fine, old patina and much smooth wear from worship.

Provenance: Collection of Gunna Munkvad, Denmark, aquired from the 1960s-1980s.

A pair of superb bronze Hamsa bird opium weights of 10 tical, Late Shan Empire, c. early 1800s.

The Hamsa with 1 spikes, both standing on symethric hexagonal bases. One with V-tail and the other with U-tail. Clear verification marks of a bird and a 6-rayed star.

Weight: 161,5 & 162 grams = 10 tical.

Condition: Near EF, choice brown and light tinned bronze surfaces.

Rarity: Common but very nice specimens.

Refference: Gear Group 1/2.

...

A fine and scarce very early or transitional style Golden Hamsa Opium Weight, Burma, c. 1730 AD.

A massive weight, very attractive in hand, the bird with two backcovers, mouth appendage and standing on a rounded octagonal base.

Weight: c. 303 grams = 20 Tical.

Condition: Very fine, smooth brown patina, attractive!

Reff. L.B. Mikkelsen p. 116, figure 51; Gear group 3.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection...

Nice different specimens of the old Karaweik bird type 5 tical bronze opium weight, Burma (from Ava, Rangoon, Amarapura), 18th. century.

All on octagonal base, with three neck-ridges and spikes, with different varieties of backcovers etc.

Weight: 73-81 grams = 10 tical.

Condition: Nice Very Fine with rich brown patinas

Refference: Gear Group 2/3. Mikkelsen p.137, figure 75.

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private col...

A rare and wonderful bronze mortar, Baroque period of Northern Europe, 18th. century.


The mortar is inscribed with owners initials O: H: S:, M: L: and the clear date 1769, the mortar is likely somewhat older, early 18th. century and made in a bronze allow, not brass that became popular later in the 18th. century.

The mortar comes with the original Pestle and was part of the inventory (Exebition) of a Swedish Farmacy.

Size: The mortar is 11 cm. high, and ca. 13 c...

A lovely Qing Dynasty porcelain jar with cover, c. 18th. century.

A seafind in an extremely fine condition!

Size: 9,8 cm. tall and 9,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine, a seafind with encrusted patina in the interiour.

Ex. Danish private Collection.

A fantastic special collection of 11 stone animals, Andean cultures, c. 15th. cent.-18th. cent. AD.

Carved soapstone votive animal figures incl. cow, bull, ram, lama and wonderful small herds of farm animals!.

Sizeable figures, between 4,2 - 7,8 cm. long.

Condition: Choice, mostly intact figures, with few small losses. Lovely patinas!

Old Private Collection, 1950-190s.

A pair of large and impressive bronze opium weights of 20 Tical, square bases, c. 1780.

Nice specimens with great patinas! Different tail types and perhaps issued with 20-30 years apart, but both later 18th. century.

Weight: Both weighs are close to 300 grams = 20 Tical

Condition: F-VF, moderate wear and fine patinas

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection of c. 250 Opium weights, hand-picked from 1991-2006, by the ...

A rare early smaller bronze figure of Hanuman, South Indian, perhaps Tamil Nadu, c. 17th.-18th. century or earlier.

Size: c. 74 mm. tall.

Condition: Choice Very fine, lovely old patina, with a fine chestnut brown colour from high copper content, much smooth wear.

Ex. Old and important Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from the 1950s and onwards.

A large and finely patinated bronze opium weight of the 20 Tical, square base, c. 1750-1780.

Sharp 9-ray verification / currency mark. Beautiful green patina and a super attractive specimen!

Weight: c. 310 grams = 20 Tical

Condition: Good very fine!

Provenance: John Abrahamsen Collection, important Danish private collection of c. 250 Opium weights, hand-picked from 1991-2006, by the collector from German British and Danish dealers. Comes with COA and p...

Bronze 10 tical opium Toe weight with lovely patina, ca. 1750-1776 AD.

Lovely early version of the Toe type with the elavated tail and with four instead of the usual three spikes, with a octagonal base engraved with concenthric lines and fine details to the cast.

Possible released by King Hsinbyushin in connection with his war campaigns into Manipur, Lanna and Siam in 1763-1767. Reff: Leif B. Mikkelsen 'Opium Weights', p.133, fig. 71.

Weight: c. 158,29 grams = 10...

An interesting and impressive large Thai bronze sculpture with silver and glass decoration, early-mid 18th. century.

Surely made for a wealthy temple or person. The Buddha is made in the finest later Ayutthaya style, likely 1750 or so. Crowned Buddha with an exceptionally rich decoration in silver and bronze beads and thick thread of Jewellery and floral design on the entire figure. Many of the leafs looks like solid silver and much of the decor too. The flame also looks to be partl...

A scarce larger, authentic bronze Opium Weight in the shape of a bridled and sadled Horse, Laotian at least 17th-19th. century.

A nice old Weight, depicting a very robust Horse with fine thick greyish tinned patina, looks like old silver!

Weight: 57,8 grams (equal to 5 Kyat).

Condition: Choice, smooth wear and many marks from old use, exceptional patina.

Provenance: Important Danish Private Collection of Opium Weights, collected between 1970s-1990 ...

A lovely lot of handpicked bronze stamp seals with fine caligraphy, Ottoman / Syrian?, c. 15th.-18th. cent. AD.

The lot incl. a couple of rare larger seals of fine style as well as early personal seals with greek letters!

Condition: Choice, fine patinas, one seal bend and one with handle lost.

A set of the tiniest bronze 'opium' currency weights, we've ever handled!. All Burmese Chinte / Toe weights with square bases, 18th. century AD.

Nominals included:

1 gram = 1/16 Tical!

0,78 grams = 1/20 Tical?

1,46 grams = 1/10 Tical

1,54 grams = 1/10 Tical

2,93 grams = 1/5 Tical

Rarity: Rare-Very rare. Such low weights from the 18th. century are practically impossible to find on the market since most of these would ha...

A very nice early carving and highly unusual! Buddha is depicted as a crowned king seated on his double Lotus Throne held by a dragon below and with a great flaming halo behind, carved with dragons.

The carving can be dated to the late Ming-early Qing dynasty, c. 17th. century.

Size: 38,3 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice Very fine. even wear and drying of the wood chips and degradation of the paint, but with much of the original laquer and paint still preserved. Compl...

A fine set of the earliest types of bronze Manillas socalled Slavetrader bracelets, Africa, Nigeria, 16th.-18th. cent. AD.

These were made and used as currency well up in the 19th. century, but our selection are very old! These come with exceptionally fine jade like patinas and were wrongly sold as European bronzeage bracelets.

Size: Up to 8,2 cm. in diameter. Weight: 720 grams.

Ex. Old private collection, 1974-2015

A lovely smaller but massive heavy bronze figure of a seated deity, probably Sri Devi / Lakshmi, holding implements and tall headdress and a breast band around her sizable attributes, South Indian, perhaps Tamil Nadu, c. 17th.-18th. century or earlier.

Size: 86 mm. tall and weighing a hefty 342 grams.

Condition: Choice Very fine, lovely oold patina, with a fine chestnut brown colour from high copper content.

Ex. Old and important Private collection of Ulf Gudmu...

Interesting Sukhothai Walking Buddha [Phra Leela] amulet in metal, Thailland, c. 14th.-16th. cent. AD.

With finely crackled surfaces, intact with greyish-green patination.

Size: 40 mm. tall.

Ex. L.P. Niederrhein, aquired before 1980.

A very nice early wooden carving of Guanyin, a votive figure with offer hole in the back, covered with a hatch, Chinese, Late Ming-Early Qing Dynasty, 17th.-18th. century AD.

Beautiful depiction of Guanyin in red, black and blue colours.

Size: 30 cm. tall and 13,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice for age and type!. Chip to the donkeys left ear and much nice patina.

Ex Old Esta

Interesting early brass figure of the reclining Bull Nandi, Southern India, c. 18th. century.

A finely made figure, much older than most we've seen on the market.

Size: c. 9 cm. tall and 6,5 cm. wide.

Condition: Choice Very fine, smooth wear from use and polishing, redish patina inside, remnants of pigments.

Ex. Private collection of Ulf Gudmundsen from the 1950s and onwards. An important collection of Tribal African and Asian antiques.

An choice bronze 5 tical opium weight with lovely patina, ca. 1750-1776 AD.

Attractive weight of the Toe type, with a octagonal base engraved with concenthric lines and fine details to the cast.

Possible released by King Hsinbyushin in connection with his war campaigns into Manipur, Lanna and Siam in 1763-1767. Reff: Leif B. Mikkelsen 'Opium Weights', p.133, fig. 71.

Weight: 80 grams (Weight unit: 15,8-16,4 grams)

Condition: Nice very fine. Wear as exp...

Bronze 5 tical opium Toe weight with lovely patina, ca. 1750-1776 AD.

Nice version of the Toe type with the elavated tail and with three spikes, with a octagonal base engraved with concenthric lines and fine details to the cast.

Possible released by King Hsinbyushin in connection with his war campaigns into Manipur, Lanna and Siam in 1763-1767. Reff: Leif B. Mikkelsen 'Opium Weights', p.133, fig. 71.

Weight: 81,23 grams = 5 Tical (Weight unit: 15,8-16,4 grams)

A nice pair of large antique wooden textile stamps, dating to 15th.-17th cent AD.

Hand carved wood stamps with geometrical and floral motifs for coloring textiles.

Size: 18,5 & 9 cm. - c. 7,5 & 3,5 inches.

Condition: Choice & intact comdition. Fine old patinas.

Ex. German Private collection.

A finely matched set of 7 bronze Hamsa bird opium weights, all from the same undertype of Shan hamsas, issued from ca. 1770 AD.

The set includes some nice weights from the massive 20 tical weight all the way down to the scarce 1/4 Tical weight.

This Hamsa-type can be dated to c. 1770-1820. They have normal hexagonal bases, engraved with concenthric lines. Six rayed star mark at the base.

Set includes weights of:

317 grams = 20 Tical: Very fine, brown pa...

A lovely Qing Dynasty porcelain jar with cover c. 18th. century.

A seafind in an extremely fine condition!

Size: 6,8 cm. tall and 7,8 cm. wide.

Condition: Extremely fine, a seafind with encrusted patina in the interiour.

Ex. Danish private Collection.

An early decorative temple carving of a Taoist deity seated on a donkey, painted in white, black, red and gold, Late Ming-early Qing dynasty, c. 16th.-17th. century.

Hidden room in the back, closed lid.

Size: c 30 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice very fine for the type and age, intact with much of it's pigments still preserved. Minor losses and completions.

Provenance: Ulf Gudmundsen collection, c. 1950s-2007.

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 interesting and scarce specimen of the early Toe (Chinte) Opium weight of the 2 tical, Burma, c. 1600-1650 AD

Well-patinated bronze weight of the old classical style featuring the unusual octagonal stepped base, depicting a ‘Toe’ or lionbeast – a mythical animal.

Weight: 30,7 grams = 2 Tical

Rarity: Scarce; smaller nominal of a type in high demand from collectors.

Refference: Gear Group 4/2. Mikkelsen p.130, figure 67. According to Mikkelsen th...

A rare early wooden chinese figure of Xuandi / Zhenwu, with much laquer and fine colour overall, China, Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), c. 17th. century.

The figure is in very original worship condition, still with remnants of the beard, made of real hair and the content present in the hidden room in the back. An attractive figure of a fine style seated on a tall throne with a chinese inscription. Hidden room in the back no lid.

Size: 28 cm. tall.

Condition: Nice very ...

A beautiful rendering of a Lohan Monk, Ming Dynasty or slightly earlier, 13th.-15th. century AD.

An excarvated head carved in very hard and dense black stone, in the round with oversized ears and pronounced arched eyebrows and downcast eyes. The head superbly polished, still with traces of the ancient carving methods and a deeply encrusted or embedded earthern patina.

The head is mounted on a modern and very attractive black marple base.

Size: 23 cm. tall when ...

A huge and exceptional 33-34 cm. massive gate key, European renaissance period of the 15th./16th. century.

By some length and weight the largest key we've ever handled or seen for sale so far! The bow round and the stem from wrought and folded metal, the bit with an S-shaped slot. Amazing post-medieval antique!

Size: 33-34 cm. long and weighing more than 750 grams! This would be a single key for a gate keeper of the city wals somewhere to carry in his key ring, since it...

A rare stoneware pitcher with salt glaze. Full-bellied shape with wide conical neck and flat handle. The base is festooned with “thumb” marks. The body is decorated with three medallions depicting a woman. A type called Trichterhalskrug in German. This stoneware pitcher was made in the Siegburg region in the 15th/16th century. It is covered with a fine salt glaze.

Size: 12,7 cm. tall.

Condition: Choice for the type. Some ultra thin hairlines restored in the top by a ...

The largest key in the collection for the type and period, and fitting a large family chest or trunk in oak, mid 16th. century.

Very attractive key with a Gothic design and heavy reenforced bit. Remnants of old coppering to the details.

Size: 152 mm. long.

A very rare and superb condition iron Cupboard key, European, probably English, 15th. century (c.1450-1520).

Very interesting key of a sturdy design with a Gothic floral bow in openwork. The bit with a double S-shape forming a cross in the center.



The decoration of Gothic iron locks and keys was often elaborate and of the highest standard of workmanship. The motifs were frequently drawn from Gothic architecture, reproducing on a miniature scale complicated tracery...

Beautiful pottery dish with torquoise glaze, black markings and a finely decorated pattern, Seljug period, 11th.-12th. century.

The Dish in an almost untouched state with fine silvery irridescence on the surface. Very beautiful colours.

Size: 17,7 cm. in diameter. - c. 7 inches.

Condition: Choice and intact, a few places of missing glaze and usual markings from the making, but a very nice dish.

Ex. Important Danish Private Collection

A fine very early Thai bronze buddha, ca. 15th. century AD, mounted on a later Rattanakosin Kingdom wooden gilt base, 19th. century.

Interesting composition of a Suchothai standing buddha on a 19th. century base. The Buddha very attrative standing erect with a slight smile and hands in the calming of the seas gesture.

Size: 30 cm. incl. the base, 18 cm. for the buddha alone.

Condition: The buddha with attractive green patina, loss of left hand and some surface ...

Rare bronze and iron key, European, renaissance, c. 15th.-16th. century.

Very interesting bronze bow of a Gothic design and the stem and bit made of iron. Probably a cupboard key.

Size: 96 mm.

Condition: Very fine, lovely metal.

Ex. Important old Danish collection of keys.

A lovely and scarce Italian closed combat helmet, with eye slits a come or ridge and a hinge at the side; it also have a produding iron guard that could also function as sunscreen, c. 1580-1610.

"Savoyard" helmets are a distinctive form of late Italian close-helmet worn by cuirassiers, the heavy cavalry outfitted with plate armor worn only to the knee and armed with pistols and swords. The term Savoyard is a reference to the large number of these helmets that the Swiss captured fro...