Russian Playing Cards "The Imperial playing cards Factory St. Petersburg"

English 18th Century Playing Cards by Hunts & Sons 13 colored English 18th century playing cards by Hunts & Sons Hunts & Sons (1789-1801) ...

18th Century Playing Cards by David Weege, 1758 27 pieces of copper engraved playing cards, framed behind glass, made by David Weege 27 pi...

Rozenburg Earthenware wall plate, The Hague, the Netherlands, 1893. A Rozenburg earthenware plate with a slightly raised edge with a floral d...

Rozenburg earthenware wall plate, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1899 Rozenburg Earthenware wall plate, with Art Nouveau style floral decor The...

An important Japanese lacquer Maki-É Panel Depicting St. Petersburg on the River Neva, with the winter palace on the left and the academy of science on the right, 18th century. Nagasaki, 1780-1800 In black lacquer on copper, the front decorated in maki-é, the back inscribed, Vue Perspective des Bords de la Neva en descendant la Rivière entre le Palais d'hyver de sa Majesté Impériale et les batiments de l'Académie des Sciences à St Petersburg in gold and inlaid with flowers in mother of pearl. Measures: H 23 x W 39 cm The present plaque is identical to one in the Museum of Japanese History in Sakura and another one in the Museum of Peter the Great in St. Petersburg. (see: Oliver Impey & Christiaan Jörg, Japanese Export Lacquer, 1580-1850, p. 52-53) This last one was given to Catherine the Great in 1794 by the Swedish medical doctor Johan Arnold Stutzer who had served with the VOC in Deshima in 1787-1788. Apparently, such plaques were not unique and may have been made in several copies. This was certainly the case with the smaller lacquer oval portrait medallions (see for instance Uit Verre Streken, June 2017, no. 62) The scene of St. Petersburg was copied from an optical print taken by Stutzer to Japan, as shown by Yasumasa Oka of the Kobe City Museum. Stutzer in his diary writes: “I am the first to bring them (i.e. the Japanese) original pictures such as a view of St Petersburg and of Rudolf XV on horseback and try to have them made (in lacquer). According to the Japanese, it is the first time that these two pictures will be copied. Other products that I also ordered, for example, pictures of sea battles, are also appreciated as absolute masterpieces”. For two lacquered plaques depicting the sea battle of Dogger Bank in 1781 between the Dutch and the English navies, see Uit Verre Streken, December 2013, nr. 39 and March 2015, nr 56. Johan Strutzer at the same time also presented six beautiful Japanese glass telescopes to Catherine the Great of Russia, like the two Japanese glass telescopes illustrated in Uit Verre Streken, March 2015, item 59 and 60 and the one in the Kobe City Museum (illustrated in: Japan Envisions the West, 16th-19th Century Japanese Art...

Whimsical, intricately carved wooden playing cards, believed to hail from a lively carnival of the late 1970s. This enchanting piece exudes a sense of playful nostalgia, crafted to c...

Original early backglass for a vintage pinball machine. These were the art pieces found in the back of the pinball ball machines that would l...

Antique print titled 'Bird’s-Eye View of St. Petersburg'. Old print with a view of Saint Petersburg, Russia. Originates from 'Voyages and Travels'. Published by E.W. Walker & Co, Bos...