Color Metallic Silver
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18,482
2,498
431
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3,604
11,988
5,757
21,411
20,640
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455
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182
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82
64
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41
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6,846
8,805
2,929
3,484
2,390
1,027
401
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247
153
126
281
287
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148
75
6,887
5,970
5,598
2,941
2,860
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12,711
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Pre-Order Tamashii Pet Urn, Carbon Copper, Ceramic Raku Pottery
By RAAQUU
Located in Petaling Jaya, MY
Tamashii Urn ~ 魂 (Soul)
The Tamashii Urn serves as a focal point of remembrance for a loved one that has passed from this life but not from your heart. This vessel is fired using th...
Category
2010s Malaysian Modern Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Copper
Exquisite 19th Century Heavily Carved Oak Antique Box Settle
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A highly decorative carved oak box settle, English circa 1900
Nicely detailed with four foliate carved panelled back and scroll arms. Box seat with lift up lid and two panel carved ...
Category
Late 19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Oak
Victorian Bamboo Bathroom Mirror Cabinet Vanity Washstand London England
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A tall Victorian bamboo bathroom washstand vanity unit by Dickins and Son, Regent Street London, circa 1885 in remarkable original condition.
Super...
Category
Late 19th Century English Victorian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan, Mirror
Huge Reclaimed Slaughterhouse Meat Hooks
Located in Nottingham, GB
Huge reclaimed Slaughterhouse meat hooks
15 Available priced per hook.
XXL 4 way vintage meat hooks salvaged from a former slaughterhouse.
British cir...
Category
1940s British Industrial Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Steel
20th Century Javanese Sculpture
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Fantastic 20th Century Javanese biomorphic sculpture.
This beautiful, hand-carved sculpture depicts waves and floating figures with wonderful movement throughout.
It is composed of...
Category
20th Century Indonesian Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Central Asian Ikat
Located in London, GB
A large panel of Central Asian Ikat, decorated with diffuse colours in red, aubergine, and pale cream, in a continuous abstract pattern, bordered with lime green silk, stretched and ...
Category
20th Century Uzbek Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silk
Large Floor Standing Sculpture of the Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune Carved Wood
Located in Llanbrynmair, GB
A large carved example of The Seven Lucky Gods of Fortune, carved from a large tree segment. Believed to be of Chinese origin, early 20th century.
A ...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Beech
Rare Chinese Export Porcelain Voc Dish
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese export porcelain VOC (Dutch East India Company) dish
Canton, Yongzheng period, circa 1730
Diam. 23 cm
Executed in rose-pink, ...
Category
18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
17th century colonial Sinhalese ebony two-door cabinet with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid Dutch-colonial Sinhalese ebony two-door cabinet with silver mounts
Sri Lanka, Kandy, 2nd half 17th century, the mounts later
The cabinet with a central drawer with hidde...
Category
17th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
Dutch Colonial Teak Round Back Chair, Late 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian teak wood round-back chair
Indonesia/Jakarta (Batavia), late 18th century
The wood elegantly carved and curved, the round-back and seating with cane.
Measures: H. 87 x W. 61 cm
Seat height 42.5 cm
Note:
Round back chairs, starting with the burgomaster chairs...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Rattan, Teak
Fine Dutch Colonial Djati Bench, First Half of the 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine small Indonesian, possibly Ambonese, Djati wood bench
First half of the 18th century
The back splat elaborately carved in scrolling foliate and floral motif, the plain, ...
Category
Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Cane, Hardwood
Large Japanese Namban Lacquer Coffer Arqueta, 16th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Japanese Namban lacquer arqueta coffer for the Portuguese market
Kyoto, Momoyama-period, late 16th century
In Hinoki cypress lacquered in ...
Category
16th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Dutch Colonial Indonesian Hardwood Four Chair-Back Settee, Late 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Javanese rosewood (sono keeling) four chair-back settee
Java, probably Jakarta (Batavia), late 17th century
The massive bench on ten turned connected legs, with four back-splats with cane.
Measures: H. 108 x W. 216 x D. 71 cm
Seat height approx. 48 cm
Note:
Batavian chairs and settees of this type were based on the medallion caneback chairs...
Category
Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Cane, Hardwood
Dutch Colonial 17th Century Ebony Center Table with Marble Top
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian ebony centre table with marble top
Jakarta (Batavia) or Coromandel coast, 1650-1680
With shallow carvings of flowers and vi...
Category
Mid-17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Marble
Japanese Kamakura/Muromachi Period Cedarwood Buddhist Priest, 12th-15th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Seated Buddhist priest
Japan, Kamakura period (1185-1333) or Muromachi period (1333-1573).
Different carved hollow blocks of cedar wood joined togeth...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Cedar
Dutch Colonial 17th Century Ebony Armchair, India/Indonesia/Sri Lanka
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An unusual Indian half-relief carved ebony armchair
Coromandel coast, 1680-1700
?
Throughout carved with floral and vine motifs, the back rail with a central peony and ...
Category
Late 17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Rattan, Ebony
Sri Lankan Mãrã or East Indian Walnut ‘Burgomaster’ Chair
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Sri Lankan mãrã or East Indian walnut ‘Burgomaster’ chair
Galle, early 19th century
Measures: H. 81.5 x W. 74 cm / seat height 45.5 cm / seat di...
Category
Early 19th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Hardwood, Rattan
Two Chinese Porcelain Kangxi 'Pelgrom' Armorial Chargers, circa 1710
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of very large Chinese armorial export blue and white porcelain 'Pelgrom' chargers
Kangxi period, circa 1710
The two chargers, decorated in...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
Two Palembang Peranakan Lacquerware Bridal Boxes and a Tray
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Two Palembang Peranakan lacquerware bridal boxes and a tray
South Sumatra, Palembang, lacquer work by Chinese Peranakan artisans, mid 20th century
Woo...
Category
1950s Indonesian Vintage Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Large Royal Early 17th Century Japanese Lacquer Chest with Gilt-Bronze Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Japanese transitional lacquer chest with gilt-metal mounts
Edo period, early 17th century
The rectangular chest with flat hinged lid decorated in gold, silver, and red ...
Category
Early 17th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
A Dutch Colonial 17th century Red Ebony Center table with marble top
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A MOLUCCAN RED EBONY CENTRE TABLE WITH MARBLE TOP
The Moluccas/Ambon, third quarter 17th century
Carved in low-relief with decoration of plant...
Category
Late 17th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Marble
Pair of Colonial Lacquered and Gilt Teak Torchères or Candle Stands
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of Indonesian lacquered and gilt teak torchères or candle stands
Probably Jakarta (Batavia), 18th century
Each on three spreading feat with human hand-shaped foot, knobb...
Category
18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Giltwood
Mother-of-Pearl Black Lacquer Japanese Export Table with Feet Shaped as Bats
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export lacquer tripod table with feet shaped as bats
Nagasaki, 1850-1860
H. 73 x diam. 108 cm
The six-lobbed top is decorated with reverse-painted mother-of-pearl in a sprawling motif of plum blossom, bamboo, and peonies, surrounded by fluttering sparrows enhanced by details in maki-e.
The table, made to appeal to a foreign audience, incorporates a curious mixture of seasonal references. In addition to the decoration of foliage from late winter and spring, the column is decorated with grapes and a rabbit pounding rice, both Japanese motifs for autumn and the month of September. The feet, shaped like bats that almost appear to wake up from hibernation, symbolise luck and happiness in Japan.
The present flamboyant Nagasaki-style table is depicted in the Asada workshop drawings of 1856. These drawings, titled Aogai makie hiinagata hikae (memorandum of designs for lacquer with inlaid pearl...
Category
19th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Lacquer
Rare Charming 17th Century Japanese Lacquer Cabinet with Gilt-Bronze Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Japanese pictoral style lacquer cabinet with gilt-metal mounts
Kyoto, Edo period, 1670-1690
Decorated in Japanese relief lacquer work, black lacquer ground decorated...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
Dutch Colonial Teak Round Back Chair, Late 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
AN INDONESIAN TEAK WOOD ROUND-BACK CHAIR
Indonesia/Jakarta (Batavia), late 18th century
The wood elegantly carved and curved, the round-back and seating with cane.
H. 87 x W. 61 cm
Seat height 42.5 cm
Note:
Round back chairs, starting with the burgomaster chairs...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Rattan, Teak
Unpei Kameyama, 'a View of Black 'American' Ships in the Bay of Uraga Senminato'
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Unpei Kameyama (1821-1899)
A view of black (American) ships in the bay of Uraga Senminato, Miura district, June 1853
The Japanese text reads: ‘The seventy-six old men for the Kitamura-clan, drawn in 1897 on request of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji, the black ships which so much changed the fate of Japan, enjoy please this masterpiece by Harima Shonin Bisei who brings back memories of his young days.’
Watercolour on paper, laid down on cardboard, H. 44.5 x W. 115.5 cm
Provenance:
Collection of Yoshisada Kitamura, Himeji
Yoshisada Kitamura (1838-1899), the son of a farmer in the village of Ogawa, in the district of Harimakashikihigashi, studied under Matajiro Otaka and got heavily involved in the anti-Shogunate movement. He was active in several military incidents against the Shogunate. After the Meiji restoration, he served the Meiji government as a local official in the Himeji domain.
Kameyama Unpei was a Confucian scholar, a Shinto priest...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Paper
Japanese Export Lacquer Mother-of-Pearl Secretaire for the American Market
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare Japanese export lacquered secretaire for the American market
Circa 1800-1830, Colonial
Overall densely decorated with flower sprays and landscapes, minutely inlaid with ...
Category
1810s Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Wood
Dutch-Colonial Sri Lankan Coromandel Wood Document Box with Silver Mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch-colonial Sri Lankan coromandel wood document box with silver mounts
Probably Galle, 18th century
H. 19 x W. 49 x D. 33 cm
The ches...
Category
18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
18th century Dutch-Colonial ‘Vizagapatam’ pen-engraved bone inlaid ebony box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A large Indian Colonial ‘Vizagapatam’ pen-engraved bone inlaid ebony box
Masulipatnam or Vizagapatam, 2nd half 18th century
H. 10.8 x W. 47 x D. 34 cm
...
Category
Late 18th Century Indian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bone, Ebony
Japanese Screen Depicting USA Commodore Perry’s Flagship the USS Mississipi
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare and fine Japanese six-fold gold-leaf screen with the depiction of Commodore Matthew Perry’s flagship the USS Mississippi
Early Bakumatsu period (1853-1867)
Measures: H. 61 x W. 183 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
On 8 July 1853 Commodore Matthew Perry with his paddle-wheel warships USS Mississippi and Susquehanna, and two sloops, with a total of 65 guns and little less than 1000 man, for the first time arrived in the harbour of Shimoda, in the bay of Edo, in his own words, “to open doors of commerce, and spread civilization to a backward people, and also to spread the Gospel of God to the heathen.” In Japanese parlance, the American ships quickly became known as “black ships,” depicted as demonic monsters. For the Japanese, these huge coal-burning ships...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Paint, Paper
18th Century Chinese Export Lacquer Chinoiserie Bureau Desk for the Dutch Market
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare, possibly unique, Chinese export lacquer bureau for the Dutch market
Canton, circa 1737
H. 118 x W. 102.5 x D. 63 cm
Provenance:
- Private collection, The Netherlands
- J.K. Driessen Antiques, Arnhem (Art Fair Breda, 1989)
- Noble collection, Belgium
Literature:
- C.J.A. Jörg, ’De handel van de V.O.C. in Oosters lakwerk in de 18de eeuw’ in: Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek , Jr. 31 (1980), pp. 355-363 (ill.)
- Annigje Hofstede, Nederlandse meubelen van Barok tot Biedermeier, 1700-1830, Waanders, Zwolle 2004, pp. 35-37 (ill.)
This lacquer bureau is one of the four writing desks purchased in Canton in 1737, and as far as is known, this is the only remaining bureau of its type from the period. As the VOC believed that large pieces of import took up too much valuable space in their trading ships...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood, Cypress, Lacquer
Extremely Fine and Rare 17th-Century Japanese Export Lacquer and Inlaid Cabinet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely fine and important Japanese lacquer cabinet with gilt-copper mounts for the European market
Edo period, late 17th century
The pictorial style decorated rectangular...
Category
Late 17th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Brass
Pair of Colonial Hardwood Side Chairs with Rattan Seats, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of hardwood, possibly Intsia Bijuga, side chairs, first half of the 18th century.
Indonesia, Jakarta (Batavia) or India, first half ...
Category
Early 18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Hardwood
Royal Indonesian Buginese Gold and Buffalo Horn Badek Dagger
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Royal Indonesian Buginese gold and buffalo horn badek dagger
Indonesia, Sulawesi, 1st half 18th century
L. 54 cm
?
The solid gold scabbard is inscribed with a magic square,...
Category
Mid-18th Century Indonesian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Gold
Chinese Export Trade Painting Depicting ‘the Tea Shop', Chinoiserie Chique
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A refined Chinese export painting depicting ‘The Tea shop’
Canton, early 19th century
Ink and watercolour on silk, H. 63.5 x W. 52.3 cm
Framed in giltwood frame.
?The paintin...
Category
Early 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silk
Peranakan Djati Wood Miniature Bed for an Anak Ambar, a Miscarried Fetus
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Peranakan djati wood miniature bed for an Anak Ambar, a miscarried fetus
Indonesia, Peranakan Chinese, late 19th century
Measures: H. 41 x L...
Category
Late 19th Century Indonesian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Japanese Export Nagasaki Lacquer Box with the Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese export Nagasaki lacquer tobacco box with the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte
Edo-period, circa 1810
The box in black lacquer on copper, ...
Category
19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Copper, Gold
Important Japanese six-fold screen depicting The Tale of The Genji, 17th century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An important Japanese six-fold screen, depicting episodes from The Tale of The Genji
Edo period, 17th century
Ink and colour on gilded paper, H. 155 x W. 380 cm
The Tale of Genji...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Paint, Paper
Rare 17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Medical Instrument Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare Japanese export lacquer medical instrument box
Edo-period, 1650-1700
L. 19 x W. 6 x H. 8.5 cm
This unconventionally shaped lacquer b...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Gold
Fine Mughal Painting of a ‘Lion at Rest’, North India, Early 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Mughal painting of a ‘Lion at rest’
North India, early 19th century
?
Watercolour on paper, H. 46.5 x W. 68 cm
?The present painting is a large...
Category
Early 19th Century Indian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Paper
A Dutch-colonial Sri Lankan coromandel wood miniature chest of drawers
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Dutch-colonial Sri Lankan coromandel wood miniature chest of drawers with silver mounts
Sri Lanka, 18th century, circa 1750
H. 35 x W. 48 x D....
Category
18th Century Sri Lankan Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
16th-Century Indo-Portuguese Colonial Mother-of-pearl Gujarat Casket
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An exceptional Indo-Portuguese colonial mother-of-pearl veneered casket with silver mounts
India, Gujarat, 2nd half of the 16th century, the silver mounts Goa or probably Lisbon
Measures: H. 16 x W. 24.6 x D. 16.1 cm
An exceptional Gujarati casket with a rectangular box and truncated pyramidal lid (with slopes on each side and a flat top) made from exotic wood, probably teak (Tectona grandis), covered with a mother-of-pearl mosaic. The tesserae, cut from the shell of the green turban sea snail (Turbo marmoratus, a marine gastropod) in the shape of fish scales, are pinned to the wooden structure with silver ball-headed nails. The casket is set on bracket feet on the corners. The masterfully engraved decoration of the silver mounts follows the most refined and erudite Mannerist repertoire of rinceaux and ferroneries dating from the mid-16th century. The high quality and refinement of the silver mounts and, likewise, the silver nails that replaced the original brass pins used to hold the mother-of-pearl tesserae in place indicate the work of a silversmith probably working in Lisbon in the second half of the 16th century.
The Indian origin of this production, namely from Cambay (Khambhat) and Surat in the present state of Gujarat in north India, is, as for the last three decades, consensual and fully demonstrated, not only by documentary and literary evidence - such as descriptions, travelogues and contemporary archival documentation - but also by the survival in situ of 16th-century wooden structures covered in mother-of-pearl tesserae. A fine example is a canopy decorating the tomb (dargah) of the Sufi saint, Sheik Salim Chisti (1478-1572) in Fatehpur Sikri in Agra district in the state of Uttar Pradesh, north India. This is an artistic production, geometric in character and Islamic in nature, where usually the mother-of-pearl tesserae form complex designs of fish scales or, similar to the dishes also made using the same technique, with the thin brass sheets and pins, stylized lotus flowers. The truncated pyramidal shape corresponds, like their contemporary tortoiseshell counterparts also made in Gujarat, to a piece of furniture used in the Indian subcontinent within the Islamic world prior to the arrival of the first Portuguese. This shape, in fact, is very old and peculiar to East-Asian caskets, chests or boxes used to contain and protect Buddhist texts, the sutras.
A similar chest is the famous and large reliquary chest from Lisbon cathedral that once contained the relics of the city's patron saint, Saint Vincent. Both match in shape, having the same kind of socle or pedestal and bracket feet, and in their engraved silver mountings, featuring the same type of refined, erudite decoration. Their differences lie in the silver borders that frame the entire length of the edges of the chest (both the box and the lid), pinned with silver nails, and on the lock plate, shaped like a coat of arms in the Lisbon example. Given the exceptional dimensions of the reliquary casket...
Category
16th Century Indian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
A Chinese huanghuali, wumu and mother-of-pearl watch holder
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, 2nd half 19th century
H. 22.5 x W. 30 x D. 12.5 cm
The pocket watch, an antique Swiss triple calendar Moon phace pocket watch in gunmetal case, dating from around 1860-1900...
Category
19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Chinese Export Porcelain Dish with Dutch Decoration of a Voc Ship
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Chinese export porcelain dish with Dutch decoration of a VOC ship
Circa 1700-1710, the Dutch decoration circa 1720-1730
Diam. 21.5 cm
?
Originally left white, this Chinese ...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
Portuguese-colonial Japanese Namban lacquer Vargueno Cabinet, circa 1600
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Portuguese-colonial Japanese Namban lacquer vargueno cabinet
Momoyama period, circa 1600
H. 43 x W. 64.5 x D. 36 cm
Wood, black lacquered and deco...
Category
Early 1600s Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Gold, Brass
Splendid and Heavy Late 17th Century Dutch-Colonial Silver Filigree Salver
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid and heavy Dutch-colonial silver filigree salver
Indonesia, Batavia (Jakarta) or possibly Padang, West Sumatra, 2nd half 17th century
Diam. 22.9 cm
Weight 551 grams
This filigree-work was probably done by Chinese masters...
Category
17th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
A large stoneware Chinese Cizhou-type Martaban storage jar
Located in Amsterdam, NL
China, Hebei province, Ming dynasty, dated 1596
H. 68 x Diam. 42 cm
The vase decorated with foliate motif and characters around the shoulder that are supposed to indicate the plac...
Category
16th Century Chinese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Stoneware
Balinese Polychrome and Gilt Wood Sculpture of a Winged Lion
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Balinese polychrome and gilt wood sculpture of a winged lion, Singa Bersayap
Northeast Bali, Singaraja, Buleleng Regency, circa 1900-1930
H...
Category
Early 20th Century Balinese Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Superb Late 16th Century Signed Colonial Japanese Namban Export Lacquer Coffer
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Superb late 16th century signed colonial Japanese Namban export lacquer coffer
Momoyama period, late 16th/early 17th century, inscribed 'Arisato' on the bottom
H. 30.5 x W. 43...
Category
16th Century Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Cedar, Lacquer
Pair of Japanese Lacquer and Mother-of-Pearl Inlaid Knife Urns, circa 1800-1815
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare pair of Kyoto-Nagasaki style lacquer and mother-of-pearl inlaid knife urns
Edo period, early 19th century
Measures: Height 71 x diameter 30 cm
?Formed as urns with vertically lifting covers and elongated finials, revealing fitted green velvet lined interiors for knives, decorated overall with birds, flowering stems, faux-fluting and oval panels with landscapes. The square plinth is raised on four bracket feet. Inside the lifting cover of one of the urns are Japanese characters, supposedly indications of some code by the craftsman.
A closely related knife urn, now in the collection of the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem (inv. E 73115), was acquired in Nagasaki by Captain Samuel Gardner Derby of the Margareth of Salem in 1801. Captain Gardner Derby traded in Nagasaki under charter from the VOC (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie), the Dutch East India Company. Between 1797 and 1814 Holland was occupied by the French and from 1811 until 1816 Java by
the English. During these periods practically no Dutch shipping was possible between Holland and Batavia (Jakarta) or between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki. To maintain a minimum amount of shipping between Batavia (Jakarta) and Nagasaki, between 1797 and 1807, the VOC chartered mainly American ships. American captains and officers ordered and bought mainly lacquered furniture in an American-English style, completely different from what the Dutch up till then had ordered. The present knife urns were possibly also ordered and acquired by Captain Gardner Derby during his stay in Deshima/Nagasaki in 1801.
Another similarly neoclassical shaped knife urn in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum Oxford (inv. 1996.17) appears to be signed by woodworker Kiyotomo koreo tsukuru (Kiyomoto made this). The same name, together with an address in the Sanjo-Teramachi District of Kyoto, has been found inside a fragmentary urn in a private collection. This is an indication that European-style furniture was not only lacquered in Japan but made there as well. This undoubtedly is not only true for knife-urns, but all European- style furniture lacquered in Japan after circa 1800 was made by Japanese furniture makers...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Anglo-Japanese Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Brass
An Indian miniature painting depicting a prince surprising bathing maidens
Located in Amsterdam, NL
India, Punjab, circa 1755
Signed by the artist Swami 'Ram Rikh' of Seopur and dated Samvat 1812 (1755)
Opaque watercolour and gold on paper,
H. 23.8 x W. 16.2 cm (image)
H. 28.3 x ...
Category
18th Century Indian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Gold
A Chinese export reverse-glass painting after an English print in original frame
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Canton, late 18th century
In original hardwood frame with ruyi-shaped metal mount for suspension.
H. 38.7 x W. 44.3 cm (incl. frame)
H. 31.8 x W. 37.5 cm (image)
Chinese reverse glass paintings for export are known since mid 18th century. By the 1780's the copying of European, mainly English, engravings came into vogue in Chinese paintings on glass...
Category
Late 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Glass, Hardwood
18th-century Dutch-colonial Peranakan mother-of-pearl casket with silver mounts
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An Indonesian Peranakan mother-of-pearl inlaid mastic sirih casket with silver mounts
Jakarta (Batavia), circa 1720-1730, the silver hinges marked for Batavia, maker’s mark HS or SH...
Category
Mid-18th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Silver
Two 18th Century Lacquered Wood Chinese Yoke-Back Chairs, Chinoiserie Chique
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of lacquered wood northern Chinese yoke-back chairs, Guan mao shi
Hebei Province, Qing Dynasty, early 18th century
Measures: H. 99.5 x W. 61 x D. 49 cm
?The back spla...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Wood
Rare Large Chinese Export Porcelain 'Table Bay' Cape of Good Hope Dish, C. 1740
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare large Chinese export porcelain 'Table Bay' dish
Qianlong period, circa 1735-1750
Diam. 27.5 cm
This version of the ‘Table Bay’ porcelain docu...
Category
Mid-18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Porcelain
A set of three exquisite nineteenth century Japanese bronze sculptures of carp
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Three exquisite Japanese nineteenth-century bronze sculptures of carp.
The sculptures are in excellent state.
The set contains three different carp: A large one, a medium-sized one ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
An Indian colonial tortoiseshell veneered teak portable two-door cabinet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Mughal India, Gujarat, 2nd half 17th century
H. 22.4 x W. 30.3 x D. 26.8 cm
This small cabinet has six drawers behind two doors. Originally ordered by the Portuguese, and made afte...
Category
17th Century Indian Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Teak
Japanese Edo Period Bronze Vase of Mimikuchi Flying Handle Form
Located in London, GB
A rare Edo period bronze vase with Mimikuchi flying handles, with quartered pear shaped body with spiral to the front and back, supported on a flared...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Color Metallic Silver
Materials
Bronze
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