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Place of Origin: Asian
Chinese Bronze Vessel with Tripod Feet, c. 1750
Located in Chicago, IL
This 18th century bronze vessel with tripod feet was crafted by hand in a traditional Chinese shape known as "ding," that dates back to 1600 BC. Tripod bowls were originally used for making religious offerings to ancestral gods. This ding is mounted on a finely carved hardwood...
Category
Mid-18th Century Qing Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Bronze and Sterling Incense Burner from Takaoka
Located in Louisville, KY
This stunning Koro was crafted in Takaoka, Japan where craftsmen use intricate tooling and expert kills to create the delicate details found in this piece. Crafted of bronze, this Ko...
Category
20th Century Other Asian Metalwork
Materials
Sterling Silver, Bronze
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Bird Jar Attributed to Honda
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, early Meiji era, enamel over gilt copper covered jar. The exterior of the jar is adorned with polychrome enamel medallions representing Phoenix birds, and flower...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Enamel
A Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Centerpiece/Bowl w/ Dragon in Relief
Located in New York, NY
A Fantastic and large Japanese Meiji Period Patinated Bronze Centerpiece/Bowl/jar denier with Dragon in Relief. This captivating and exquisite, hand-crafted, patinated bronze centerpiece serves as a remarkable focal point, adorned with marvelously hand-chassed and hand-chiseled dragons in relief, gracefully emerging and disappearing behind artfully stylized scrolling etched clouds. The centerpiece boasts a substantial and graceful curved base, complemented by a striking peaked and square-edged lip atop the vessel.
The significance behind the depiction of the three-clawed dragons stems from the Japanese belief that Eastern dragons originated within their native land. According to their folklore, as these majestic creatures ventured away from Japan, they acquired additional toes. The Japanese Sky dragon...
Category
1890s Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$10,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Rare Chinese Tonkin Ware Shakudo Sawasa Erotic Tobacco Box
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A ruyi-shaped Shakudo-style erotic tobacco or snuff box, relief-decorated with silvered applied figures
Possibly Jakarta (Batavia), first half 18th century
Measures: H. 2.2 x L. 12.1 x W. 8 cm
This box is very much in the Dutch taste, for the illustration is after a print with a legend reading “L’oiseau sans cage. Prenez, belle, mon oiseau. C’est le plus doux présent que je puisse vous faire. Pour les autres oiseaux, la cage d’ordinaire est une espèce de tombeau. Mais le mien semble prendre une nouvelle vie, Lorsqu’il sera dans la cage de mon aimable Silvie.” The erotic message is as clear as can be.
In Dutch culture the verb ‘vogelen’ (catching a bird) is another word for having sex and a bird escaping from his cage indicates loss of chastity. The lady with the bare breasts, while making the sign of sealed lips to the lady behind her, who is pointing towards heaven, seems to be caressing the bird held in the sleeping man’s groin. 17th century Dutch pictures...
Category
Early 18th Century Chinese Export Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze
Antique Large Japanese Bronze Champleve Enamel Vase
Located in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Antique large quality Japanese bronze Champleve enamel vase C1900.
Would look amazing in the right location. Rare large size and design.
O...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$1,139 Sale Price
30% Off
Japanese Antiques Copper Gutter Chain, Triple Ripples, 3M
Located in Niiza, JP
Single part: φ100 Length: 2950(H) [mm] 8kg
Beautiful even on rainy days
One of the old folk tools that impresses with Japanese aesthetics
A passage for draining water from the gutte...
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Vintage Chinese Floral Cast Iron Mortar
Located in Chicago, IL
This vintage cast iron mortar from China's Shanxi province is patterned in low relief with a simple floral design. Originally used in a traditional ap...
Category
Mid-20th Century Rustic Asian Metalwork
Materials
Iron
Pair of Early 20th Century Japanese Temple Urns
Located in London, GB
A magnificent pair of bronze temple urns. Called Jyôka, this set is usually placed on or next to an altar in Buddhist temples.
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$8,176 / set
Dutch Colonial Silver Dish with the Von Pfeffel Coat-of-arms, 17th Century
Located in Amsterdam, NL
An unusual Indonesian lobbed silver dish
Jakarta (Batavia) or Coromandel coast, third quarter 17th century, apparently unmarked
The eight lobbed dish exuberantly decorated with floral motifs, with the middle section replaced, consisting of indistinctly marked German silver from the early 19th century, bearing the coat-of-arms of the Von Pfeffel family.
Diam. 30.5 cm
Weight 461 grams
Note:
Lobbed silver dishes with exuberant floral decorations were characteristic of the decorative arts in the Netherlands in the first half of the 17th century. This style of floral decoration was adopted by silversmiths as well as by furniture makers working on the Coromandel Coast and in Batavia, often by workers who had fled the Coromandel Coast because of war and famine. In Batavia this style was known as “Custwerck” (work from the Bengal coast).
These lobbed dishes are seldom marked. Only after 1667 the use of the town mark became obligatory in Batavia but only for silver made in Batavia not for silver imported in Batavia from other VOC settlements. The engraved coat of arms in the centre is a replacement of the original centre.
The coat of arms can be identified as those of Christian Hubert von Pfeffel (1765- 1834). As a diplomat, statesman, ambassador of Bavaria in London and Saxony and councillor to the King of Bavaria, he was made “Freiherr” in 1828 and since then used this coat of arms. His son Karl Maximilian Friederich Hubert Freiherr von Pfeffel (1811-1890) in 1836 married Karoline Adelheid Pauline von Rottenburg (1805-1872), the natural daughter of Prins Paul von Württemberg (1785-1852) and his mistress Margrethe Porth. Paul was the jounger brother of the King Wilhelm I of Württemberg (1781-1864). The heraldic motto of the von Pfeffels Vur Schande habe den Huot means as much as “Beware of Shame”. Christian Hubert Theodoor Marie Karl von Pfeffel Karl Maximilian’s grandson was the last male in the von Pfeffel line. His daughter, Marie Louise (Paris in 1882 - Cornwall 1944), born and grown-up in France, changed her name in de Pfeffel. She was the great grandmother of Boris Alexander de Pfeffel Johnson, the present British Secretary of State. None of the members of the von Pfeffel family had any direct links with the Dutch East Indies but indirectly by way of the Royal House of Württemberg they did.
Sophia Frederika Mathilda von Württemberg (1818-1877), daughter of Wilhelm I King of Württemberg, in 1839 married Willem III...
Category
Late 17th Century Dutch Colonial Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Hexagonal Goldstone Enamel Vase
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese enamel over copper vase. The vase has a hexagonal shaped body with a long narrow neck. The vase is enameled with polychrome geometrical, floral, foliage and foliate scroll...
Category
19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Large Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Koro
Located in London, GB
Large Meiji Period Cloisonne Enamel Koro
Japanese, late 19th Century
Height 88cm, width 76cm, depth 53cm
This superb cloisonne enamel koro was made during...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Japanese bronze cover censer, 19th c .
Located in New York, NY
decorated with birds and flowers in relief; 4in(D) x 7.5in(W) x 12in(H) are the overall dimensions of the cover censer with the wooden base
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A Very Fine Miniature Japanese Mixed Metal Bronze Bottle Vase, Meiji Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
The finely proportioned ovoid shaped body rising to an elongated slender neck with a flaring rim, decorated with motifs of waterfowl standing in a grassy marsh with silvered bodies, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Gold, Silver, Bronze, Copper
Pair Korean Iron Box with Silver Inlays Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A fine pair of Korean iron box with intricate silver inlays dated to the late Joseon Dynasty circa 19th century. The matching circular boxes was most likely used to store tobacco lea...
Category
19th Century Other Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver, Iron, Bronze
A Japanese patinated bronze vase depicting a cricket
Located in Milano, IT
A slender shape patinated bronze vase depicting a naturalistic scene of a cricket sitting on iris leaves.
Signed Joun in relief within an oval reserve.
Origin: Japan
Period: Meiji ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japonisme Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$3,262 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Bronze Vessel with Dragon Handles and Falcon Lid
Located in Greenwich, CT
Japanese bronze vessel with pair of dragon handles, falcon lid, birds in landscape and elephant heads base.
Category
1890s Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
A Fine Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Vase and Cover. Meiji Period
Located in London, GB
A Exquisite Cloisonne Enamel Vase and cover
Meiji period -Late 19th C
Exquisite and refined four sided cloisonne vase and cover made in gold and silver wire with dragons and phoen...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel
Bronze sculpture of two cicadas on a bamboo, used by calligraphs to hold paper
Located in PARIS, FR
Two cicadas in bronze facing each other on a bamboo segment
One is an adult while the other is at the nymph phase. Three foundry stamps, one underneath and one alongside each insect...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Chinese Export Silver Mug
By Leeching
Located in London, GB
A Chinese export silver mug with flowers and foliage engraved within decorative panels; and a dragon handle. Marked with LC, for Leeching, 利升 (...
Category
1870s Chinese Export Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japanese bronze sculpture of a ginseng root, ganodermas mushrooms growing on it
Located in PARIS, FR
Bronze sculpture representing a group of genoderma mushrooms developing on the long stem of a Ginseng root that is standing on two kakis. Logically this root would be Panax ginseng, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Pink And Purple Plate With Children
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese plate adorned with a polychrome cloisonne enamel design. The central scene features several children. The background is a v...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel
Antique Early Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Bowl with Rabbits In Waves
Located in Long Island City, NY
An antique Japanese, Meiji period, footed enamel over copper bowl. The interior of the bowl is adorned with polychrome enamel panels depicting blossoming flowers surrounded by a swir...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel, Copper
$2,400 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique Chinese Bronze 5 Claws Royal Dragons Sculpted Vase - Pair
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Chinese Bronze 5 Claws Royal Dragons Sculpted Vase - Pair
This pair of 19th century rare bronze vases are decorated with sculpted Imperial royal five claw dragons. The drago...
Category
Mid-19th Century Qing Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Omani Two Silver Leaf Pattern Scroll or Document Holders
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
Two fine graduated vintage Omani silver pierced scroll or document holders believed to date to the early to mid 20th century. The scroll holders are of l...
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japanese Antiques Suga Geshin Wax Casting Rain Dragon Pattern Vase/Flower Vase
Located in Niiza, JP
Suga Tsukishin Wax Casting Rain Dragon Pattern Vase/Flower Vase
φ120× 240(H) [mm]
Box size: φ140×290mm 2kg
A work by the third generation of Tsukishin, a master caster from Takaoka,...
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
19th Century Japanese Meiji Period Bronze Censer
Located in Rochester, NY
Antique 19th century Meiji period Japanese bronze censer. Top lid decorated with finely sculpted reclining anthropomorphic figure / bonsai tree / acorn and cut out hearts. Overall be...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Rare Meiji Japanese Cloisonne Red Enamel Green and White Dragon Jar
Located in Long Island City, NY
A rare antique Japanese late Meiji Era tripod and covered enamel copper censer koro. Circa: late 19th century to early 20th century. The sphere form censer koro is enameled with poly...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel, Copper
Antique Sculptural Copper Chinese Hand Warmer
Located in San Diego, CA
Artistically and visually stunning early 19th Century piece of copper work. This intricate piece is full of detail. The compressed globular body rises to a waisted neck which is co...
Category
Early 1900s Chinoiserie Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Japan mice treasure bag Meiji
Located in PARIS, FR
Japanese bronzewith brown patina representing two mice. One is pulling pulling a treasure bag. crouching down with its head turned to the left. While the other mouse is standing on i...
Category
Late 20th Century Japonisme Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Tea Calling Bell, Japanese, Brass, Silver Plate, Decorative, Circa 1920
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique tea calling bell. A Japanese, brass and silver plate decorative chime, dating to the early 20th century, circa 1920.
Graced with charm and a delightfully metallic...
Category
Early 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver Plate, Brass
Chinese Antique Iron Bath
Located in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
Interesting 19th C Chinese antique iron bath. 1860.
Dimensions
41 inches (104 cms) Wide
25.5 inches (65 cms) Deep
18 inches (46 cms) High.
Category
19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Iron
Chinese Export Silver Tea or Coffee Service by ZeeSung
By Zee Sung
Located in Atlanta, GA
A three-piece set of Chinese export sterling silver tea or coffee service circa early 20th century. The service consists of a lidded tea or coffee pot, a creamer and a sugar bowl. Th...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Asian Metalwork
Materials
Sterling Silver
Collection of H’Mong Tribe Silver Spirit Locks
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely crafted piece was made high in the mountains of southeast China, Laos, Thailand and Burma (modern day Myanmar) by an indigenous hill tribe. The Hmong people are know for ...
Category
20th Century Tribal Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
$1,275 Sale Price
25% Off
Large Matching Pair of Chinese Bronze Cloisonné Enameled Vases
Located in Norton, MA
Quality work, large & heavy matching pair of chinese bronze cloisonné enameled vases. Of squared four-panel form, each panel with raised scenes of birds and florals on a blue ground ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Export Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Vintage Patinated Indo-Tibetan Buddhism Bronze "Phurba" Ritual Dagger / Tool
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage patinated Indo-Tibetan Buddhism bronze "phurba" ritual dagger / tool, circa 1900s. The piece is in good vintage condition with a great patina and measures 4.5"W x 2"D x 19.5"...
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Group of Three Brass Vases Lotas Tanjore South India
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Group of three brass vases
Probably, Tanjore, South India
19th century
The bodies of flattened, spherical form,
rising to the narrowed neck and a ...
Category
Late 19th Century Anglo-Indian Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Brass
Antique 18th Century Indian Hindu Bronze Rama and Sita – South Asian Art
Located in London, GB
Antique 18th Century Indian Hindu Bronze Figure of Rama and Sita – South Asian Religious Art
A finely cast and beautifully patinated antique Indian bronze sculpture depicting Lord R...
Category
19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
Japanese Antiques iron paulownia design crest lantern lamp Toro
Located in Niiza, JP
φ170× 400(H) [mm] 2kg
Antique iron lantern with a beautiful antique feel. Two sides are carefully decorated with paulownia leaf designs.
Kitaoji Rosanjin (a very famous designer an...
Category
19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Iron
Pair of Japanese urns. 19th c. Meiji period. Signed.
Located in Stockholm, SE
These pair of Japanese bronze urns from the Meiji period have decorations of birds and flowers. The inlays are made of silver, gilt bronze and shakudo. Both urns are signed at the bo...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Three Drawer Copper Lined Hibachi. Circa 1870
Located in Charleston, SC
KYOTO STYLE NAGA HIBACHI (FIREBOX BRAZIER GRILL), Japanese, Meiji Period, The rectangular hibachi is of Keyaki (Zelkova) wood construction with the original copper liner, and a colum...
Category
1870s Antique Asian Metalwork
Japanese Bronze Rabbits
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Bronze Okimono grouping of 2 figural long eared rabbits, consisting of a mother rabbit up on her hind legs and her child on all fours. They c...
Category
1920s Showa Vintage Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
$2,200 / set
19th Century Chinese Round Polychrome Cloisonné Charger
Located in Milford, NH
A striking round polychrome cloisonné charger with running deer, scrollwork, various characters, and a geometric border , all on a teal blue ground, ...
Category
19th Century Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Chinese Cloisonné Enamel Egg "Blue Bords" with Wood Stand, Early 20th Century #1
Located in Norton, MA
Presenting a cute Chinese cloisonné enamel egg depicting two Blue Birds with a wood stand, early 20 century.
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Export Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Japanese Cloisonné Ando Jubei Signed Vase 8.5" Wireless Clematis
By Ando Jubei
Located in Somis, CA
An exquisite Ando Jubei wireless cloisonné vase. In his signature green enamel, portraying an intricate arabesque design of a blooming clematis vine under the glaze. On Musen-jippo b...
Category
20th Century Meiji Asian Metalwork
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Japanese lantern in cast iron decorated with colourfull enameled champleve.
Located in PARIS, FR
Tall hexagonal lantern in bronze with a blue, red and green enamel openwork with stylized lotus flower motives. The shaft has a nice brown patina. The base is decorated with taotie m...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze, Enamel
Small Antique Octagonal Dish, Middle Eastern, Decorative, Bronze Tray, Georgian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a small antique octagonal dish. A Middle Eastern, decorative bronze tray with relief decor in Persian taste, dating to the Georgian period, circa 1800.
Unusual and delightfu...
Category
Early 19th Century Georgian Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Shinto Ema Wishing Wooden Plaque with Iron Sickle and Sword
Located in Chiba, JP
Old wishing wooden plaque with iron sickle and sword as ‘Ema’ handmade by Japanese blacksmith and dedicated to Shinto shrine to ward off evil spirit and conflagration. approx. 23.7 x...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Iron
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Japanese Antiques Tokyo copperware Takahashi Ryoun lion, peony motif big vase
Located in Niiza, JP
Tokyo copperware master Takahashi Ryoun lion and peony motif vase
φ420× 330(H) [mm]
12kg
Material: copper, gold inlay for the eyes
Takahashi Ryoun, a master of Tokyo copperware
As yo...
Category
20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Meiji Period Signed Bronze and Mixed Metal Bonsai Planter or Brush Pot
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Meiji period (1868-1912) signed bronze and mixed metal bonsai planter or brush pot, polygon shaped (six sided) decorated with different scenes on each p...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Chinese Bronzed Seated Buddha with Boys
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A fine Chinese bronzed copper seated Buddha with five small boys believed to date from the early 20th century. The hollow cast figure is well detailed and portrays the seated smiling...
Category
Early 20th Century Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper
Priests of Pallas Festival Kansas City Chinese Cloisonné Card Tray, 1906
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An unusual and scarce Chinese attributed Art Nouveau cloisonné card tray made for the Priests of Pallas Festival in Kansas City in 1906. The Festival wa...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Metal
Japanese Cloisonne Enamel Ceramic Tea Set Of 7 Pcs
Located in Long Island City, NY
A Japanese enamel on ceramic tea set. A total of 7 items. The set comprises a pair of cups and saucers, a teapot, a sugar bowl, and a creamer. Each ware is adorned with polychrome en...
Category
19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Enamel
Pair of Antique Thai Ayutthaya Period Bronze Crowned Buddha Head on Wood Stand
Located in Forney, TX
A remarkable pair of Thai Ayutthaya period bronze crowned Buddha mounted on wood display stands. Thailand. 17th/18th Century
Dimensions: (approx)
Head: 15" High, 7.75" Wide, 6" Deep (tallest)
Overall: tbd
Provenance / Acquisition:
Acquired from the highly reputable auction house Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas.
2024 March Fine & Decorative Asian Art Signature Catalog Auction #8155 Lot #78357
Condition Report:
Attractive pair with beautifully aged patina, condition commensurate of age, use, and exposure. Scattered areas of desirable verdigris green patina and oxidation throughout to each. Minor loss to front shell point of one example. Small holes scattered throughout and scews/nails through each fixing both examples to wooden bases. Both well preserved and present superbly
History:
The first Crowned Buddha images or Jambupati Buddha statues are known to have been originated from the Pyu, where the Indian influence of Buddhist arts and non-Theravada Buddhism was extremely felt in those days. There may have been various background stories behind the crowned Buddha statues in the course of history but one of the most popular stories goes by the legend of Jambupati. This particular legend is not known in the home of Buddhism India, however the crowned Buddha statues have been attached to the name Jambupati as the Buddha is believed to have humbled a boastful and arrogant king Jambupati. The story goes on about how the Buddha transformed himself into a mighty king with a crown and jewelry and set himself a majestic yet incomparable palace. Seeing this, the king accepted the great ability of the Buddha and submitted himself to the Dharma and became a Buddhist monk. This particular story has gained a lot of popularity and stood the test of time in Burma as the number of Crowned Buddha statues in Burma is considerably great in amount.
There are also other versions of the background story of crowned statues...
Category
17th Century Folk Art Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Indo Persian Brass Charger Serving Tray
By Rajhastani
Located in North Hollywood, CA
A large Mamluk revival Indo Persian brass charger serving tray with handles.
Large octagonal serving tray platter engraved and finely decorated with...
Category
Early 20th Century Anglo Raj Asian Metalwork
Materials
Brass
H’mong Tribe Silver Spirit Lock Necklace
Located in Chicago, IL
This finely crafted piece was made high in the mountains of Southeast China, Laos, Thailand and Burma (modern day Myanmar) by an indigenous hill tribe. The Hmong people are known for...
Category
20th Century Tribal Asian Metalwork
Materials
Silver
$11,250 Sale Price
19% Off
Meiji Period Bronze of a Boy Carrying Twigs
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A Meiji period bronze of a boy carrying twigs, they are strapped onto his back on a carrying frame and he carries a gourd water bottle in his right hand, signed in a seal. Japanese, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
19th-Century Tibetan Copper and Brass Ritual Vessel with Applied Ornamentation
Located in Middleburg, VA
A richly detailed 19th-century Tibetan ritual vessel, hand-forged from copper and embellished with applied repousse and engraved brass medallions, geometric plaques, and symbolic mounts. Raised on three splayed feet, this bulbous, high-necked vessel features a domed body adorned with a dense array of ritual and decorative appliques, including stylized floral medallions, abstract symbols, and keyhole-like forms that reference tantric iconography.
The vessel's expressive form is punctuated by three protruding spouts and retains its original arched swing handle with pierced brass finials. Meticulously decorated in traditional metalworking techniques, the surface patina reveals a rich, warm interplay between the copper ground and the golden brass overlay. An aesthetic that speaks to both spiritual function and ornamental sophistication.
Likely used in ceremonial or domestic rituals, this vessel stands as a worthy testament to Tibetan artisanship and Buddhist ritual culture. A compelling piece for collectors of Himalayan antiques...
Category
19th Century Tibetan Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Metal, Brass, Copper
Japanese Bronze sculpture of a standing Mouse holding an Hazelnut
Located in PARIS, FR
It is a very convincing bronze sculpture of a mouse with a light brown patina, represented with an astonishing set of detail on its eyes, nose and fur. She is seated on her rear paws...
Category
Late 19th Century Meiji Antique Asian Metalwork
Materials
Bronze
Antique Turkish Ottoman Metal Tinned Copper Vessel Islamic Moorish Style
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Handcrafted Turkish Ottoman tinned copper metal round Moorish vessel.
Antique Middle eastern Asian Islamic tinned copper large bowl nicely hand-hammered....
Category
Early 20th Century Moorish Asian Metalwork
Materials
Copper, Tin
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