A lovely working condition cupboard lock, European baroque period, c. 1650-1680.
A very nice condition lock with it's matching key and ready to be installed in an antique cupboard or just for exhibition in a nice collection of early European metal antiques.
Size: c. 15 cm. long with the key being c. 9 cm. long.
Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997.
An amazing and very large Iron lock with it's workable key, from a heavy gate, South-Germany, Renaissance period, 16th. century.
An early lock with a perfectly preserved locking mechanism. A snap lock with two bolts for extra security and with it's original key, so very rare!
Size: 31,5 cm. long and 23,5 cm. wide, and the key being 19 cm. long! Weight: c. 1,8 kilograms.
Provenance: Danish Private collection of Grethe Pedersen, Ledøje, Denmark, ca. 1950-1997...
An antique Chinese wine pot with a dark glaze and narrow lip. Wide shoulder that tapers to a narrow base. Some loss.
Age: 17th Century
Dimensions: 14 1/2" High by 14 1/2" Diameter
Yuan - early Ming Hongwu minyao small bowl with flower motif, good condition with small chip and hairline at the rim please see picture for detail, size: 9.5 cm diameter, 5 cm height.
Tang dynasty Changsha ewer with lion motif excavated from shipwreck near belitung island the batu hitam shipwreck, good condition some glaze degradation due long time in the sea please see picture for detail, size: 24 cm height.
French Empire Chandelier Bronze ,Crystal,Frosted Etched Glass c.1910, measuring 36” x24”
An antique Japanese Choba Tansu (merchant chest) made of Keyaki (Zelkova) and Sugi (Cryptomeria) woods. All original hand forged iron hardware including the Hikute style handles and wiped Urushi lacquer finish. Horizontal slats on all four sides provide strength and visual Japanese architectural design. Two sets of sliding doors with two side by side drawers...
Qing dynasty 18 - 19th century Chinese bronze censer with dragon handle, good condition please see picture for detail, size: 24 cm diameter from ear to ear, 16 cm diameter mouth rim. weight about 2525 gram
Length: 3.8 cm (1.7 in)
Height: 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
Depth: 3 cm (1.2 in)
Japanese carved netsuke of a boy crouching over and holding a large peach; natural material; very well-modelled; good condition
A set of Japanese bronze chickens with artist sign.
Age: Japan, Showa Period, 20th Century
Size: Height 10.2 - 20.9 C.M. / Width 6 - 6.3 C.M. / Length 12.5 - 18.3 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.
Japanese bronze peacock with artist sign.
Age: Japan, Showa Period, 20th Century
Size: Height 21.7 C.M. / Width 9.1 C.M. / Length 42 C.M. (size excluding stand)
Condition: Nice condition overall. Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.
An attractive brass or white bronze alter / shrine of Virabhadra (Shiva with attendants), Western India, difficult to date, but we think it's at least 18th.-19th. century, but likely somewhat older.
Virabhadra, or Veerabhadra, is a fierce aspect of Shiva, who manifested following an unforgiveable insult made to Shiva’s wife, Sati, by her father, Prajapati Daksh. The central figure in the shrine is Virabhadra, a hero-warrior...
Ancient Near East, Luristan, ca. 1200 to 800 BC.
A large elaborate bronze cloak pin, cast via the lost wax (cire perdue) process with poppy flower shaped terminal.
Used to fasten clothes, in this case due to the unusually heavy fabric and decoration, likely leather for presentation use - perhaps for a very thick cape or leather armor. The lower terminal decorated with knobs and 3 spikes.
Size: 15,8 cm...
19th century wooden kiseruzutsu - Japanese tobacco pipe holder carved in a shape of a stem Fungus of Immortality with 2 heads. Very nice carving, clever design, himotoshi is formed by natural opening between stems, pleasant wear and patina on the surface. Length 8 inches.
19th century Japanese kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe holder - carved out of a section of stag antler. Very clever use of natural skin texture and color to represent an old rotting pine log with its peeling bark. Two holes in the upper back part for hanging. Elegant piece in Japanese taste, excellent patina, in perfect condition. Length 8 1/2 inches.
19th century Japanese kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe holder. The material of the object is polished branch of umimatsu - in Japanese it literally means SEA PINE, and describes species of black coral with dense texture, concentric growth rings, and amber colored inclusions in the black material. Very simple elegant shape, nicely fat and heavy, wonderful patina and sheen to the surface. Great dignified piece, unusual material, very pleasant to the touch. Length 8 5/8 inches.
19th century Japanese Asakusa school staghorn kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe case - carved with the Monkey King with a bamboo stick in his hand standing under a pine tree and looking at two monkey warriors also armed with poles. Clever carving incorporating outer texture of the antler and porous nature of its center as elements of design. Beautiful wear and patina, two holes on the sides appear to be original. Length 7 7/8 inches.
19th century Japanese Asakusa school staghorn kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe case - of elegant simple shape with medium relief carving of a jar containg an ikebana arrangement with lotus leaf and 2 different flowers, channel for hanging carved under the upper flower. Excellent carving and etching, beautiful wear and patina, clever use of outer texture of the antler as element of design, in great condition. Length 8 inches.
Late Meiji / early Taisho period (1910s) Japanese kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe holder - made out of a section of bamboo stem. Carved in shallow relief with Kanon - the Boddhisattva of Compassion - seated on grass covered rockery over a stream. Wonderful tranquil face, excellent use of katakiribori - carving technique recreating the brush strokes used in sumi ink painting. Inscribed with a lengthy poem at the top...
19th century Japanese Asakusa school staghorn kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe case - carved with a mountainous landscape and figures of Kanzan reading an open scroll and Jittoku leaning on his broom. According to a legend, Kanzan and Jittoku lived in a kitchen of a Chinese Zen Buddhist monastery and talked nonsensical language, which some took as a sign of them being enlightened. Very clever carving incorporating outer texture of the antler and porous nature of its center as elements of design...
19th century Japanese Asakusa school staghorn kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe case - carved with a scholarly landscape with a temple among hills and rocks by a pine tree, and a village in the distance. Clever carving incorporating porous texture of its center as element of design, nicely chunky. Beautiful wear and patina, in great condition. Length 8 inches.
19th century Japanese Asakusa school staghorn kiseruzutsu - tobacco pipe holder - carved in a shape of a stem of Fungus of Immortality with five fungus heads. Could serve as nyoi, or Ruyi scepter - traditional symbol of scholarship and transmission of knowledge. Elegant carving, excellent rendition of fungus head textures, superb staining typical for the Asakusa School pieces. Very clever design, excellent wear and patina on the surface. Length 7 1/2 inches.
A nice pair of Danish Neolithic axes dating to 4th-3rd mill BC.
The pair consist of:
1. a thinbuttet axe dating to 3500-3000 BC. Almost fully polished with beautiful mottled amber and brown patina. Size is 15,5 cm - 6,1 inches.
2. A thinbladed axe, c 2500 BC - a period were the production of flint tools became more specialized. 12 cm. - 4,7 inches. Fully polished with nice and glossy grey patination...
A smaller Danish Neolithic Hardstone Axe with an unfinished hole near the butt. Likely Funnelbeakerculture, mid-late 4th mill. BC.
Axes like these probably had a religious status, and are rather scarce.
Size is c. 13 cm - 5 inches.
Condition: Nearly superb.
Ex. Private collection.
This item comes with a standard export license, when shipped outside Denmark...
A scarce thinbutted Danish Neolithic silex axe, mid-late 4th mill. BC.
The axe has a rarely seen feature with a carved ring in the middle of the head.
Most thinbladed axes doesn't have this kind of fitting, so this specimen must have been fastened to the shaft in a different way than usual. Maybe used as an adze.
Size is 17 cm - 6,7 inches.
Condition: Choice axe, w. smaller chips. Resharpened in antiquity. Beautiful calky, white patina.
Ex. Private...
A nicely executed thinbutted Danish Neolithic silex axe, dating to mid-late 4th mill. BC.
Unpolished axe with nice proprotions and clear 'seams' along the edges. Very nice workmanship.
Thinbutted axes were developed to help neolithic people to clear the forest to prepare the land for farming. The largest specimens - up to 40 cm - were put down in marches as offers.
Size is 20 cm, so a larger specimen - c. 7,8 inches.
Condition: Choice axe, w. a chip ...
Antique Himalayan small silver Buddha Sakyamuni seated in vajrasana position on a lotus throne. His feet are folded in his lap in vajraparyankasana and his right hand reaches down in bhumispara mudra. His expression is compassionate with downcast eyes and a slight smile. The bottom of the base is covered in copper.
Age: 19th century
Dimensions: 3 1/8" high x 2" wide x 1 5/8" deep
Antique Japanese small zushi, a shrine made for traveling. Carved of wood and lacquered black on the outside, the tiny doors open to reveal the figure of a praying abbott standing on a lotus pedestal. The interior of the shrine as well as the abbott himself are all lacquered gold and he holds a tiny strand of glass prayer beads. There is a tiny metal hook on the top of the zushi.
Age: Edo Period 1603-1867
Dimensions: 4 5/8"H x 2"W x 1 3/8"D
Rare. **BOSTON WATCH Co. BOSTON, Mass. Original Double Hinged Display Case, marked on both bezels "DUEBER HAMPDEN". Mint white porcelain dial; signed just as the movement: "BOSTON WATCH Co.". 18 size, Hinting Model, full plate gilt, 15 jewels, lever set, Serial No. 159.713. Very clean, running, and in wonderful original condition.
"Boston Watch Company" Watches made by Hampden
If you run across a watch marked "Boston Watch Company" on the movement and/or dial, it is VERY likely t...
Antique Chinese snuff bottle made of porcelain and decorated on four sides. Two sides are painted with enamel glaze scenes of white herons and lotus blossoms. The other two sides have large raised cartouches painted with red and green. The lid is made of pale green jade and has a long spoon made of bone.
Age: circa 1900
Dimensions: 2 3/4" high x 5/8" wide
Antique Chinese porcelain snuff bottle with cylindrical form, decorated with a scene of a water dragon in waves. Intricate and fine line details and expressive movement in the dragon and in the watery background. The dragon is painted in iron-red glaze and the waves in blue. The tall, white glazed neck is topped with a small jade lid. The long spoon is made of bone.
Age: Qing Dynasty (circa 1800's)
Dimensions: 2 3/4" high x 5/8" wide
An antique Japanese Ko Choba Tansu (small merchant chest) made of Kiri (Paulownia). All original hand forged iron hardware including the Kakute style handles and the Chidori designed drawer front corners. Side by side drawer along the top with a locking bar securing two drawers and a hinged door that hides 2 smaller drawers where valuables were kept. Constructed using straight dovetail joinery and hardened wooden nails.
Age: Edo Period (1800-1850)
Dimensions: 28" Wide by 14" Hig...
Big group Tang - Five dynasties Ding or Xing ware white glaze large bowl 50 pieces, good condition please see picture for detail, size about 21 cm diameter, some are slightly bigger or smaller, if need more photo detail please contact us.
Qing dynasty 18 - 19th century Chinese bronze censer, good condition please see picture for detail, size: 17 cm diameter, 16 cm mouth diameter.
Qing dynasty Chinese bronze censer with lion head motif, good condition please see picture for detail, size:
Big group Tang dynasty yue type green glaze large jar 100 pieces, good condition please see picture for detail,