A Rare and Fine Pair of Japanese Export Lacquer Portrait Medallions on Copper

A Fine Jingasa with Mother-of-Pearl ‘Mosaic’ Decoration Lacquer, wood, leather, mother-of-pearl, gilt Japan Late Edo Period - Circa 1861 - 1863 SIZE: 7.5cm high, 37cm dia. - 3 ...

A Fine and Rare Scroll Painting Depicting the European Hendrik Doeff (1764 - 1837) standing, holding a ‘red lacquer’ walking cane, together with his dog and his young Javanese boy-se...

A Fine and Decorative Pair of Rampant Lions With scrolling foliate supports, raised upon floral stepped bases Wood, polychrome, gilt Anglo–Indian Mid 19th Century Size: 89cm high, 26cm deep, approx. 50cm wide - 35 ins high, 10¼ ins deep, approx. 19¾ ins wide Provenance: Ex Private English collection Probably from a huge ‘armorial’ device or building pediment...

A Fine and Rare Silver Mounted Hunting Hanger Displaying a ‘blackamoor’ head to the pommel Steel, silver, stag horn England Late 17th Century Size: 61cm long - 24 ins long Pr...

Indistinct silver hallmarks for 1691 Silver, gilt, steel, agate England Late 17th century Size: 58cm long - 22¾ ins long Provenance: Ex Private English collection, Mrs How, ren...

A Very Fine and Rare Headrest ‘Kali’ or ‘Kalimasi’ / ‘Kali Toloni’ Bamboo, wood, coconut ‘sennet’ fibre The ‘cross-bar’ (rest) engraved with triangular design reminiscent of ‘Tapa C...

Rare pair of Japanese Nagasaki Export lacquered wood knife boxes with mother-of-pearl inlay of flowers and birds, now converted to letter boxes. The boxes were converted to letter b...

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...

A pair of fine Japanese export lacquered cutlery boxes Kyoto or Nagasaki, late 18th century H. 33.5 x W. 24 x D. 21 cm The bow-fronted boxes with sloping lids flat at the top are made of hinoki wood (Cypress), coated with Japanese paper and decorated in lacquer with scattered gold birds and flowers on a nashiji background. The Japanese mounts are made of copper and both boxes still have internal partitions to keep the cutlery upright. The form of these boxes is similar to a pictorial-style knife box in the collection of the Groninger Museum (inv. 1989- 347), dated between 1730 and 1780, but the style of the decoration is more like that on a knife box in the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem (inv. E62271), which was brought to Salem by James Devereux, Captain of the Franklin, in 1799. Provenance: Henriette Jeane Christine van Neukirchen, called Nyvenheim (1807- 1849) and Nicolaas Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle (1806-1866), thence by descent to the last owners, Ludolphine Emilie baronesse Schimmelpenninck van der Oye (1944) married in 1969 to Roland Daniel van Haersma Buma (1944), the last residents of castle Duivenvoorden near Voorschoten and the great-great-granddaughter of Nicolaas Johan Steengracht van Oostcapelle. There is no evidence that Nicolaas Johan himself, or any of his or his wife’s ancestors had ever been in Japan. However, Nicolaas’ grandfather (Nicolaas Steengracht, 1754-1840) was a director of both the VOC and WIC (West Indies Company...

A Japanese export Nagasaki lacquer tobacco box with the portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte Edo-period, circa 1810 The box in black lacquer on copper, ...

Late Momoyama period, late 16th century The coffer is decorated in black lacquer, urushi, on cedar wood, decorated with gold dust and silver, maki-e, and nashiji, mother-of-pearl, r...

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...