Objects

  • Ottoman Damascus Calligraphic Border Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Calligraphic Border Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Calligraphic Border Tile

    10644 An Ottoman Damascus calligraphic border tile, a blue scalloped border with a turquoise line, the blue script “Muhammad peace be” (upon him) on a background of tendrils and flowerheads. Left corner re-stuck.

    Syria, Damascus

    1650-1700

    Height: 7.5 ins (19 cms)

    Width: 9 ins (23 cms)                                                  £1,800

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  • Ottoman Damascus Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Tile

    Ottoman Damascus Tile

    10662 An Ottoman Damascus tile decorated with carnations and jasmine on a deep blue background, with an apple green border of scrolling palmettes. Reduced in height to fit scheme but otherwise intact.

    Ottoman

    1580

    Height: 7 ins (17.6 cms)

    Width: 9.75 cms (24.5 cms)                          £2,400

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  • A pair of Edo Lacquer Heishi Tokuri

    A pair of Edo Lacquer Heishi Tokuri

    A pair of Edo Lacquer Heishi Tokuri

    10637 A pair of Japanese Edo period gold lacquer Heishi tokuri, baluster shaped bodies with drapery decoration, with gadrooned silver metal tops. One with lid missing and crease to the lacquer.

     

    Japan

    19th century

     

    Height: 7 ins (17.5 cms)

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  • Large Ottoman Damascus Tile

    Large Ottoman Damascus Tile

    Large Ottoman Damascus Tile

    10761 A large Ottoman Damascus tile, an eight-headed flower medallion within a lobed border, with flower spandrels to the corners, decorated in blue and green with black outlines. Hairline crack. In later oak frame.

     

    Ottoman Damascus

    Circa 1650

     

    10.5 ins (26.5 cms)²

    Thickness: 1 inch (3 cms)

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  • Deruta Maiolica Bust of Rudolf II of Bohemia

    Deruta Maiolica Bust of Rudolf II of Bohemia

    Deruta Maiolica Bust of Rudolf II of Bohemia

    10711 A Deruta maiolica bust of Rudolf II of Bohemia, Holy Roman Emperor (1552-1612), portrayed as a young man, wearing a laurel wreath and parade armour, on an integral tall, circular pedestal inscribed RADOLPVS. Old restoration to the chest.

     

    Italian, Deruta

    1620

     

    Height: 12.25 ins (31 cms)                                          £4,000

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  • Deruta Maiolica Bust of Cleopatra

    Deruta Maiolica Bust of Cleopatra

    Deruta Maiolica Bust of Cleopatra

    10712 A Deruta polychrome maiolica bust on pedestal representing Cleopatra, her hair tied with a diadem, her features clearly drawn, wearing a necklace and formally dressed, on a tall pedestal inscribed COLPATRIA. Fine condition, intact. Provenance: Chavaillon Collection.

    Italian, Deruta

    1600

    Height: 12.25 ins (31 cms)                                          £4,000

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  • French Bronze of a Leaping Bull

    French Bronze of a Leaping Bull

    French Bronze of a Leaping Bull

    10770 A French bronze figure of a leaping bull, after Barthelemy Prieur (1536-1611), rearing on his hind legs and facing slightly to the left, his tail resting on his back, the head finely detailed, on later green marble base.

     

    French

    1700

    £4,000

     

    Length: 6.25 ins (16 cms)

    Height: 6 ins (15 cms)

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  • French Renaissance Revival Terracotta Tile

    French Renaissance Revival Terracotta Tile

    French Renaissance Revival Terracotta Tile

    10769 French Renaissance revival rectangular terracotta tile, finely painted with a woodland scene en grisaille in a strapwork frame with satyr supports incorporating initials ‘GBE’, cartouches and festoons of fruit and vegetables, within a cobalt blue border.

     

    French

    1880-1900

     

     

    Height: 17.5 ins (44 cms)

    Width: 12.25 ins (31 cms)                                          £950

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  • Rare George III Neoclassical Games Box

    Rare George III Neoclassical Games Box

    Rare George III Neoclassical Games Box

    10012 A rare George III Neoclassical games box, decorated in Etruscan style copying the designs of William Hamilton’s vases, the lid painted with Helen and her attendants within a fine, athenium border, the sides with a continuous frieze of Etruscan animals, the interior with a removable arrangement of two card boxes and four counter boxes painted with a camel, horse and various other animals.

    English

    1790-1800

    Width: 12.5 ins (32 cms)

    Depth: 8.5 ins (21.5 cms)

    Height: 3.25 ins (8.5 cms)                                              SOLD

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  • French Bronze Group 'The Fawn with Pipes'

    French Bronze Group ‘The Fawn with Pipes’

    French Bronze Group ‘The Fawn with Pipes’

    10262 A French bronze group after Coysevox, ‘The Fawn with Pipes’, the fawn seated on a tree stump with a young fawn behind, after the marble original for the garden at Marly for Louis XIV (1709), now in the Louvre.

     

    French, Paris

    1870

     

    Height: 23 ins (58.5 cms)

    Base: 10 ins x 10 ins (25 cms)                                     £4,000

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  • French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    French Louis XVI Carved Walnut Roundel

    10747 A French Louis XVI carved walnut roundel of the harvest, two putti digging and ploughing a corn field, within a segmented border.

     

    French

    1780-1800

     

    Diameter: 12 ins (31 cms)                               £1,650

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  • Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    Ottoman Steel Arm Guard

    10743 An Ottoman steel arm guard of typical form, engraved with a pattern of flower heads within a calligraphic border inscription, Qur’an chapter II verse 255, and with the armourer’s mark from the Ottoman arsenal of Hagia Eirene.

     

    Ottoman

    Circa 1550

     

    Height: 14 ins (35.5 cms)                                            £800

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  • French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    French Bronze Flute Playing Putto

    10296 A French bronze figure of a putto playing the flute, in the style of Roccatagliata, one leg forward with the flute raised to the lips, eyes and hair finely detailed, on a stepped, circular slate base.

     

    French

    1860-1890

     

    Height: 10.5 ins (26.5 cms)

    Height including base: 12.5 ins (32.5 cms)                £1,600

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  • Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    Large Ottoman Iznik Dish

    10604 A large Ottoman Iznik dish decorated with saz leaves, painted on a white ground with a central scrolling leaf surrounded with tulips, carnations and stylised flower heads, the border with foaming waves and rocks, the back with small flower heads below a painted wavy rim border, the raised foot rim pierced for suspension. Restored, broken into four pieces.

    Private European collection.

     

    Ottoman Turkey, Iznik

    1600-1620

     

    Diameter: 13.5 ins (34 cms)                                             £7,000

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  • Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    Pair of Japanese Arita Actor Figures

    10726 A pair of Japanese Arita male actor figures, wearing hats and black kimono with iron red details, and holding open fans, enclosed bases and with small vent holes on the back.

     

    Japanese, Arita kilns

    1700-1730

     

    Height: 6.25 ins (16 cms)                                        SOLD

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  • Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    Pair of Bronze Japanese Vases

    10694 A pair of small Japanese bronze vases by Nogawa, silver inlaid and engraved with details of bamboo branches. Engraved Nogawa mark on both bases.

     

    Japanese

    1900

     

    Height: 6.5 ins (16.5 cms)                                          £480

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