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A Dutch East India Company VOC almanack for the year 1785
Located in Amsterdam, NL
"D’Erven Stichter’s Comptoir Almanach, Op ’t Jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi, 1785. Voorzien met alle de Jaar-, Paarden-, Beesten-, en Leermarkten, alsmede de Vacantien, het Varen der...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
A Dutch West India Company GWC almanack for the year 1760
Located in Amsterdam, NL
"D'Erven Stichter’s Comptoir Almanach, Op ’t Schrikkel-Jaar onzes Heeren Jesu Christi, 1760, voorzien met alle de Jaar-, Paarden-, Beesten-, en Leermarkten Alsmede de Vacantien, het ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
An antique taxidermy Kea (Nestor notabilis)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, 19th century
Provenance:
Private collection, Belgium
The kea, indigenous to New Zealand’s Southern Alps, was considered a cunning trickster by the Māori. It is perceived i...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Wood, Feathers
An antique taxidermy Duck-billed Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, late 19th century
L. approx. 40 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, Belgium
Category
Antique 19th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Leather
A rare pair of painted armorial Green Sea Turtle shells (Chelonia mydas)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, late 19th century
Each large carapace is intricately painted with heraldic emblems. The first shell bears the coat-of-arms of the Tyerman family, while the second depicts t...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Taxidermy
Materials
Tortoise Shell
A silver 'naugari' bracelet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Rajasthan, India, early 20th century
Called 'Naugari' these bracelets were worn by farmer's wife.
The eight 'gajre' balls attached to the central ring are made from a thick piece of...
Category
Early 20th Century Indian Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Silver
A pair of silver fibulae from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Atlas Mountains, Morocco, Early 20th century
The usage of the fibula, an ancient piece of jewelry that holds capes and other clothing in place, is unique to North African Berber cos...
Category
Early 20th Century Moroccan Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Silver
An exquisite collection of thirteen Indian arrows
Located in Amsterdam, NL
India, early 19th century
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Indian Arms, Armor and Weapons
Materials
Metal
Beautiful agate African trade beads
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Probably Togo, Africa, probably early 20th century
Trade or slave beads formed an essential element in trade networks between Europe, Africa, Asia, the Pacific and America, from the...
Category
Early 20th Century Togolese Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Agate
A Nias nobleman's gold ‘nifato-fato’ necklace
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Indonesia, North Sumatra, Nias, 19th-20th century
A crescent-shaped gold necklace hammered into folded ridges, the end fastened by interlocking hooks.
Diam. 27 cm
Provenance:
Col...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Indonesian Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Gold
A large taxidermy Southern cassowary (Casuarius casuarius)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
The Netherlands, 21st century, died of natural cause in a European zoo
H. 141 cm
Endemic to North-east Australia and Papua-Guinea, the Cassowary is regarded as the most dangerous b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Animal Skin
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
Antique 18th Century Chinese Chinese Export Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
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
Antique 17th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Gold
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
Antique 19th Century Japanese Edo Lacquer
Materials
Copper, Gold
Marvelous High-Quality Taxidermy Red Patas or Hussar Monkey
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A taxidermy red patas or hussar monkey (Erythrocebus patas)
Mid 20th century, including CITES
H. approx. 40 cm
Provenance:
Private collection, the Netherlands
The patas monkey lives in multi-female groups...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Animal Skin
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
Antique Late 19th Century Indonesian Furniture
Materials
Wood
Polychrome Wood Model of an Indonesian Toraja Dwelling or Tongkonan, C. 1900
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A polychrome wood model of a Toraja dwelling or tongkonan
Indonesia, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja, early 20th century
H. 60 x L. 94 x D. 33 cm
Provenance:
- Seminary Rosa Stichting, Nijmegen
- Instituut voor Kulturele Antropologie van de Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen
- With Michel Thieme...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Architectural Models
Materials
Wood
An extremely rare antique taxidermy Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare antique taxidermy Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla)
1st half 20th century
The marvellous creature in very good condition and o...
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Animal Skin
Giant Victorian Taxidermy Loggerhead Sea Turtle
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare giant Victorian taxidermy Loggerhead sea turtle
England, 19th century
The extremely large animal with a nice patina, with some parts professionally restored and...
Category
Antique 19th Century British Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Tortoise Shell, Animal Skin, Epoxy Resin, Paint
Very Large Hand-Drawn View of St Iago Cape Verde, by Frederici, 1783
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Johann Christian Friderici [= Frederici] (Heldburg 1766 - Cape Town 1804)
Prospect van het eyland, en de rheede van St. Iago. Geteekend van Johann Christian Friderici / Verbeelding van de inwoonders op St Iago
(View of the island, and the roadstead of St. Iago. Drawn by Johann Christian Friderci / Depiction of the inhabitants on St Iago)
?Porto Praia, Cape Verde...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Cape Verdean Dutch Colonial Maps
Materials
Paper
Extremely Large Hand-Drawn Manuscript Map of Surinam, 1830, History of Slavery
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A unique large hand-drawn map of Surinam by Albrecht Helmut Hiemcke (German, 1760-1839)
?
'Colonie Surinaame', 1830
A large hand-drawn and coloured map of the colony of Suri...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Surinamer Maps
Materials
Paper
Engraved Commemorative Surinam Plantation Glass, History of 18th Century Slavery
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A splendid commemorating glass with a fine engraving of a plantation house and coffee shrubs with a text reading: Het.Welvaaren.Van.De.Plantagie.Saxen (the prosperity of the Plantati...
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Surinamer Glass
Materials
Glass
Engraved 'Cape of Good Hope' Colonial Commemorative Glass, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A commemorating glass with an engraving of a farmer ploughing, an East Indiaman and a text reading:
Het Lan’s Wel Varen An De Caap (the country’s prosperity at the Cape of Good Hope...
Category
Antique 18th Century South African Glass
Materials
Glass
Extremely Rare Copy of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independance, 1811
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Extremely rare copy of the Venezuelan Declaration of Independance 'Declaracion de Independencia de las Siete Provincias Unidas de Venezuela en Congreso de 5 de Julio de 1811'
By Lorenzo Lüthy (c. 1811-1877), printed in Philadelphia, Peter S. Duval, 1841.
Lithograph on laid paper, mounted in passepartout, H. 84 x W. 64.5 cm (with mount H. 96,5 x W. 77 cm.)
Large and extremely rare lithographed broadside Declaration of Independence of Venezuela by American immigrant...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Venezuelan Prints
Materials
Paper
Japanese Painting Depicting Commodore Perry’s Ship with Buddhist Monks Aboard
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese painting depicting Commodore Matthew Perry’s flagship USS Mississippi bringing the coffin with the remains of US marine private Robert Williams who died while serving on t...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paint, Paper
Japanese Life-Size, Edo Period, Red and Black Lacquered Palanquin or Norimono
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese red and black lacquered palanquin or norimono
Edo period, early 19th century
Made of lacquered wood, latticework and bamboo, black velvet and gauze with gilt scroll...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Textile, Silk, Rattan, Rope, Wood
Japanese American Cypresswood or Hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama’ Tea Chest
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Japanese Cypresswood or hirohi ‘Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama’ tea chest
Yokohama, 1862-1897, with inscription reading: Choicest Natural Leaf Yamashiro Tea, Packed by Walsh, Hall & Co, Yokohama
Measures: H. 53.5 x W. 61.5 x D. 41.5 cm
Including original wood box
The chest gold, silver and red lacquered on a black lacquer ground, the top decorated with an eagle sitting on a branch, looking at a small escaping bird, the front with a pheasant under a chestnut, one side with a cockerel amongst foliage, the back decorated with an argus pheasant...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Furniture
Materials
Wood
18th Century Polynesian Hardwood Ula Tavatava or Throwing War Club from Fiji
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Polynesian hardwood Ula tavatava or throwing war club
Fiji, probably 18th century
All-over decorated in incised pattern, the bulbous top seems to have a stone grown into it.
H. 42 cm
Including museum-quality powder-coated stand.
Provenance:
Private collection, France
Polynesian culture is traditionally a culture of power and prestige, and there was a fine line between battle and ceremony. Warrior people par excellence, the Fijians had at their disposal a large panoply of weapons, each for a specific use.
The elegant Gata are called gun-sticks by Europeans due to the recognizable form. However, they are designed after a snake, gata in Fijian language. The Ula throwing clubs...
Category
Antique 18th Century Fijian Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
18th Century Polynesian Ironwood Gata Waka or War Club from Fiji
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Polynesian ironwood Gata waka or war club
Fiji, probably 18th century or earlier
Measures: Height. 97 cm
Including museum-quality powder-coated stand.
Provenance:
Private collection, France
Polynesian culture is traditionally a culture of power and prestige, and there was a fine line between battle and ceremony. Warrior people par excellence, the Fijians had at their disposal a large panoply of weapons, each for a specific use.
The elegant Gata are called gun-sticks by Europeans due to the recognizable form. However, they are designed after a snake, gata in Fijian language. The Ula throwing clubs...
Category
Antique 18th Century Fijian Tribal Art
Materials
Hardwood
Ebony Veneered Captain's Chest or Strong Box 'Coffre Fort', 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A strongbox was a type of travelling chest and these types of boxes were more common in England than anywhere else where they were fabricated between 1660 and 1720. The earliest proo...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fine Jelutong Wood Borneo Dayak Kliau or Shield, First Half of the 19th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A fine Jelutong wood Dayak Kliau or shield
Indonesia, Borneo, Kalimantan, first half of the 19th century
Measures: H. 126 x W. 36 cm
The kliau or klebit is the most popular ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Indonesian Tribal Tribal Art
Materials
Wood
Unique Diorama Depicting a North-American River Scene with Natives and Settlers
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Unique diorama depicting a North American river-scene
United States of America, early 20th century
Measures: H 36 x W 68.5 x D 34 cm
The dioram...
Category
Early 20th Century American Native American Objects
Materials
Other
Japanese Sculpture Okimono of a Dutchman, Dutch Colonial, 18th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare wood Japanese Okimono of a Dutchman playing with a bat
Edo period, 18th-19th century or earlier
The Dutchman is standing and h...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Japanese Edo Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Boxwood
Taxidermy Free-Standing Blackbuck Antelope
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Taxidermy Blackbuck (Antilope Cervicapra)
20th century
Mounted free-standing with the head turned.
Measure: H 107 cm.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Victorian Display with Taxidermy Birds of Paradise by Jane C. Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An extremely rare Australian Victorian display cabinet with birds of paradise by Jane Catherine Ward (1817-1889)
Sydney, circa 1880
Wi...
Category
Antique 19th Century Australian Late Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Vibrantly Coloured Peacock Pheasant Wall Mount, 20th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A taxidermy grey peacock-pheasant (POLYPLECTRON BICALCARATUM)
20th century
Naturalistically mounted on a wood branch, in courting position, showing its peacock-eyed plumage, ...
Category
20th Century Dutch Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Very Large Edwardian Display Cabinet with Sea-Birds, circa 1900
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A very large Edwardian taxidermy case with European sea-birds
Early 20th century
The birds perched on a rocky sea ledge with droppings and plants, naturalistically mounted...
Category
Early 20th Century English Edwardian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Victorian Display Box with Taxidermy Turako's, Rowland Ward, Late 19th Century
By Rowland Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Victorian display case with taxidermy turaco birds, labelled for and by George F. Butt for Rowland Ward
Late 19th-early 20th century
The...
Category
Antique 19th Century English Late Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Splendid Taxidermy Argus Pheasant 'Argusianus Argus', Zoo Animal
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A Very Impressive Taxidermy Great Argus Pheasant (Argusianus Argus)
21st century, mounted by Zoologisk konservator Mikkel Carlsen (Denmark)
Mounte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Pair of Victorian Cabinets with Taxidermy Quetzal by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of extremely rare Victorian display cabinets with taxidermy resplendent quetzal (PHAROMACHRUS MOCINNO), cotinga and hummingbirds, attribute...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
Pair of Fine Desk Globes by J. Cary, 1816 and 1824
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A pair of desk globes by J. Cary
“Cary’s New Terrestrial Globe delineated from the best Authorities extant; exhibiting the late discoveries toward the North Pole and every improve...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Maps
Materials
Other
Rare Anthropological Diorama of Carib Indigenous by Hendrik Schouten
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Hendrik Samuel Schouten (1785-1840)
A unique diorama depicting Carib Indigenous at the river side
Wood, paint on paper, twigs and dried moss
Measures: H. 51 x W. 69.5 x D. 20 cm
Note:
This is the only known diorama by Hendrik Schouten. He became a planter and inherited the Jagtlust plantation from his grandfather Samuel Loske. His older brother Gerrit Schouten...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Models and Miniatures
Materials
Twig, Wood, Giltwood, Paint, Paper
Colonial Silver VOC 'East-India Company' Ingot
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A silver 'V.O.C. AMSTERDAM' ingot
circa 1738, with monogram and the assay mark of the Amsterdam Grill family
With V.O.C. monogram and the A for Amsterdam.
L. approx. 15.5 cm
Weight approx. 2000 grams
Note:
The ingots were salvaged in 2004 from the wreck of the VOC indiaman Rooswijk, equipped by the Amsterdam VOC Chamber. The Rooswijk sank on its second voyage to the Dutch East Indies off the English coast on the Goodwin Sands...
Category
Antique 18th Century Dutch Historical Memorabilia
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare 17th Century Silver Reliquary Arm Monstrance
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A rare silver reliquary arm with relic bone, with the coat-of-arms of Cosme Roger (1671-1710), bishop of Lombez, France, with original bone relic
Poss...
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, third quarter of the 19th century
On two scrolling foliate feet with casters, above which a rectangular two-side glazed frame, with on top a two-sided shield with initial...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century English High Victorian Taxidermy
Materials
Other
