NEW ITEMS FOR OCTOBER 2024
Included are items from India, Sikkim, China, Thailand, Burma (Myanmar), Brunei, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Morocco, Libya, Nigeria, and the Indigenous or Aboriginal peoples of Australia.
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Inscribed Burmese Silver Centrepiece
Burma (Myanmar) circa 1905
height: 30cm, width: 25.7cm, weight: 1,339g
Provenance
UK art market
Pair of Indian Carved Wooden Parrot Heads
South India early 20th century
height: approximately 48.4cm, width: 20.8cm, depth: 29.4cm, combined weight: 7,149g
Provenance
UK art market
Rare & Fine South Indian, Double-Sided, Brass Plaque Grant (Hakku Patra) Inscribed with Telugu Script
Andhra Pradesh, Deccan, Southern India dated samvat 1516 (AD 1572)
height: 27.2cm, width: 13.1cm, depth: 1cm, weight: 985g
Provenance
private collection; acquired in London, UK, around 2000
Rare Colonial Indian Three-Piece Silver Tea Set
Bombay (Mumbai), India circa 1880
height of teapot: approximately 12.7cm, length of teapot (from spout to handle): 19.2cm, combined weight: 959g
Provenance
UK art market
Brunei (Malay) Brass Grain Measure (Gantang)
Brunei dated 1875-76
height: 16.3cm, diameter: approximately 18.5cm, weight: 1,447g
Provenance
private collection, Channel Islands
Dutch Colonial Silver Curtain Hooks
Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and possibly Sri Lanka 19th century
length: approximately 16.9cm, width: 12cm, combined weight: 114g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Superb Moroccan Berber (Amazigh) Necklace
Amazigh or Berber People, Draa Valley, Southern Morocco latest stringing: mid-20th century from earlier elements
length: 99cm, width of amber: widest at 4cm, weight: 464g
Provenance
private collection, Germany; collected in the 1980s
Large Borneo Cast Brass Gong (Tawak-Tawak) with Dragons in High Relief
Borneo (Sarawak, Malaysia or Brunei) 19th century
width: approximately 44cm, depth (excluding protruding dragons): 11.5cm
Provenance
UK art market
Moroccan Berber (Amazigh) Hair Braid Finial (Tidjgagalin)
Amazigh or Berber People, Ktaoua, Draa Valley, Southern Morocco latest stringing: mid-20th century from earlier elements
length: approximately 28.3cm, weight: 179g
Provenance
private collection, Germany, Acquired in the 1980s
South Indian Bronze, Double-Sided, Charter Plaque (Pattayam) with Lengthy Tamil Inscriptions
South India 18th-19th century (dated 13th-early 14th century)
height: 40.5cm, width: 24.5cm, weight: 3,562g
Provenance
private collection, UK; acquired at Spink, London, April1980.
Carved Bone Miniature Divination Image of Eshu (Ikin Ifa)
Yoruba People, Nigeria 19th-early 20th century
height: 7.6cm, width: 2.3cm, depth: 2.7cm, weight: 26g
Provenance
UK art market
Superb Manchu Chinese Pair of Double-Sided & Long Silver Hair Pins
Northern China Qing Dynasty, 19th century
length: 29.2cm, width: 3cm, combined weight: 125g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Manchu Chinese Ruyi-style Silver Hair Pin
Northern China Qing Dynasty, 19th century
length: 17.2cm, width: 7.2cm, weight: 36g
Provenance
Private collection, London, UK
Fine, Manchu-Chinese, Flat Silver Hair Pin
Northern China Qing Dynasty, 19th century
length: 23.4cm, width: 5.7cm, weight: 92g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Rare Sikkim Parcel-Gilt Silver Ga’u Box
Gangtok, Sikkim, Himalayan India 18th-19th century
height: 10cm, width: 9.7cm, depth: 5.1cm, weight: 335g
Provenance
private collection, UK
South Indian, Double-Sided, Copper Plaque Land Grant (Hakku Patra) in Tamil Script
South India, probably Tamil Nadu circa 17th century
height: 30cm, width: 22.4cm, weight: 1,145g
Provenance
private collection; acquired in London, UK, around 2000
Rare, Indian Processional Temple Silver Plaque
South India 19th century
height: 30.7cm, width: 20.4cm, weight: 416g
Provenance
Private collection, London, UK
Mughal or Deccan Silver Perfume Set (Attardan)
Northern India or the Deccan 18th century
height: 8.2cm, width: 10.8cm, depth: 7.3cm, weight: 407g
Provenance
Northern India
Malay Red Silk & Gold Thread Man’s Silk Ikat Headscarf (Ikat Kepala)
Palembang, Sumatra, Indonesia 19th century
width: 77.4cm, length: 77.4cm
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Rare, Very Early Sri Lankan Sword Stick with a Silvered Hilt set with Rubies (Bonikkula)
Sri Lanka 17th century
length: 58.9cm, width of hilt: 6.8cm, weight: 495g
Provenance
from the collection of Sir Christopher Ondaatje, UK.
Rare Pair of Moroccan Iron Prick Horse Spurs Overlaid with Gold
Morocco 19th century
length of spur: 27.7cm, combined weight of spurs: 818g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Burmese, Thai-Style, Inscribed, Silver-Clad Votive Buddha Image
Dawei, Southern Burma (Myanmar) dated 1880
height: 13cm (approx.)
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Unusual Indian Bronze Lakshmi Mounted on a Bull
Tamil Nadu, South India 18th-19th century
height: 27.5cm, width: 6.7cm, length: 12cm, weight: 2,239g
Provenance
UK art market
Thai Woven Yan Lipao Basketry Hand Bag with Gilded Niello Silver Mounts
Bangkok, Thailand circa 1975
height: 18.6cm, width: 21cm, depth: 11cm, weight: 330g
Provenance
UK art market
Rare Sikkim Parcel-Gilt Silver Ga’u Box
Gangtok, Sikkim, Himalayan India 18th-19th century
height: 10.2cm, width: 9.5cm, depth: 4.3cm, weight: 303g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Sikkim Parcel-Gilt Silver Octagonal Box
Gangtok, Sikkim, Himalayan India 18th-19th century
height: 7.7cm, width: 11.6cm, weight: 420g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Western Queensland Fighting Boomerang
Aboriginal People, Western Queensland, Australia early 19th century
length: 69cm, width: widest at 5.2cm, weight: 285g
Provenance
UK art market
Western Queensland Fighting Boomerang
Aboriginal People, Western Queensland, Australia early 19th century
length: 73.7cm, width: widest at 8.1cm, weight: 487g
Provenance
UK art market
Central Australian Small Aboriginal Tjurunga or Churinga
Arrernte or Aranda People, Aboriginal, Central Australia 19th century
length: 43.4cm, width: widest at 7.7cm, weight: 269g
Provenance
UK art market
Sri Lankan Silver-Mounted Lime Container (Killotaya)
Sri Lanka 19th century
length: 7.8cm, width: 6cm, depth: 2cm, weight: 108g
Provenance
private collection, London, UK
Libyan Coral and Silver Temporal
Libya early 20th century
width: 7.9cm, weight: 77g
Provenance
UK art market
Selected, Fine Items from Past Catalogues
Pair of Tibet Fire Offering (Homa) Ladles of Iron Overlaid with Gold & Silver
Derge, Tibet 15th-16th century
length: 78.2 and 86.2cm, combined weight: 1,983g
Provenance
UK art market
Indian Embroidered & Mirrored Cotton Upper Garment (Choli), with a 19th century Label Card
Northern India 19th century
width from arm to arm: 77cm, length: 37cm
Provenance
old private collection, UK.
Champleve Enamelled & Gilded Bronze Stupa with Jataka Tales
China Ming Dynasty, circa 15th century
height: 20.2cm, width: 10cm, weight: 1,254g
Provenance
private collection of Maurice Collis (1889-1973); thereafter by descent.
Pair of Mapuche Carved Wooden, Iron & Leather Stirrups
Mapuche people, Chile 18th-19th century
height of wooden section of each stirrup: 25cm, width: 22cm, depth: 15.5cm, length of leather strap: 38cm
Provenance
UK art market
Rare Tibetan or Mongolian Leather Box Decorated with Pigment & Gold Leaf
Tibet or Mongolia 15th-16th century
height: 20.4cm, width: approximately 30cm, depth: approximately 18cm, weight: 960g
Provenance
private collection, UK
Exceptional, Early Tanimbar Ancestor Figure
Tanimbar, Southeast Moluccas, Eastern Indonesia 18th century
height: 16.4cm, width: 5.4cm, depth: 4.5cm
Provenance
Private Collection, Northern England; acquired by the previous owners from an antiques fair, York, England, circa 1980
Rare, Indo-Portuguese Ceremonial Gilded Silver Filigree Flower Basket
Indo-Portuguese Goa, India second half of the 17th century
height: 10.2cm, diameter: 6.6cm, weight: 136g
Provenance
previously in a private house, Bangkok, Thailand
Straits Chinese Groom’s Double-Sided, Finely Embroidered Blue Wedding Sash
Straits Chinese, Straits Settlements (Singapore, Penang, Malacca) late 19th or early 20th century
length: 197cm, width: 6.5cm
Provenance
Acquired by a colonial administrator in the early 20th century, and has been in England since.
Naga Warrior’s Tiger Hunting Necklace
Naga People, Burma/India early 20th century or earlier
circumference: approximately 73cm, width of pendant: 11cm, length of boar teeth: approximately 9.1cm, weight: 207g
Provenance
private collection, US
Thai Cast Silver Standing Buddha
Thailand 17th-18th century
height: 14.4cm, weight: 226g
Provenance
private collection, London.
Pair of Sri Lankan or South Indian Yali Door Plates
Sri Lanka or South India circa 18th century
length (each): 16.5cm, width: 13.7cm, combined weight: 1,041g
Provenance
UK art market
Carved Wooden Portrait of a Young Balinese Man
Bali, Indonesia circa 1930
height: approximately 25cm, width: 23cm, depth: approximately 16cm, weight: 2,547g
Provenance
private collection, UK.
Rare Gujarati Silk Trade Shawl with Rare Tax Stamps
Gujarat, Western India late 18th century
152.5cm x 151cm
Provenance
UK art market