Lot 191
Kelvin & Hughes Sextant
Kelvin & Hughes Sextant, Bronze. Dated 1917. mouvable in leather box. 12 x 12 cm.
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Two Byzantine bronze commercial weights, possibly from the same set. Probably originally inlaid with copper or silver they represent three and one...
A neolithic flint scrapper mounted in a thin gold casing, possibly a little later. Such a high status object could have served a number of ceremon...
An exceptional intaglio in carnelian of Julia Domna, the wife of the Emperor Septimius Severus. She is shown facing left as the sealing would have...
Published by Taipei: Kwang Fu Book Co., 1980 Title: CHINESE POTTERY AND PORCELAIN - 5 Volumes Publisher: Taipei: Kwang Fu Book Co., ...
A Roman gold ring with a carnelian intaglio showing and eagle with a wreath in its beak flanked by two legionary standards. Such a ring, with a mi...
Volume 1: 208 pages; Volume 2: 256 pages These two volumes present a selection of Chinese Ceramics belonging to the celebrated collection of Far ...
Lot 118
French Artist
French Artist, young boy with dog and gun on a sofa, watercolour on paper, framed under glass. On the reverse described in French language, early ...
Alexander Rothaug (1870 – 1946) – Graphic, first world war scene, lithographie on paper with description 60 x 40 cm.
Lot 152
Telescope
Telescope, with three sections, glass lenses, gilded bronze and wooden grip
Lot 128
REGINA KRAHL, CHINESE CERAMICS FROM THE MEIYINTANG COLLECTION, LONDON, 1994-2010, VOLUMES ( I-II-III
London: Azimuth Editions Limited, 1994-2006, three volumes, beige and grey cloth, slip cases, numerous color illustrations. Used.
Lot 163
Royal Navy Compass
Royal Navy Compass, in bronze mantle, glass. Diameter 5 cm. 20th Century
Lot 34
Olympia Typewriter
Olympia Typewriter, with extra long barrow. Original deisgn, mid of 20th Century.
Lot 181
Pocket Compass
Pocket Compass, with lid and opening function. 20th Century. 5 cm diameter.
Lot 171
Kelvin & Hughes Compass
Kelvin & Hughes Compass, in metal box. Movable. 20th Century. 8 cm diameter.
Lot 9
Columbus Globe
Columbus Globe, paper with colour printed card, on metal base. Berlin around 1960.
Smallest: 18 by 22 cm. Largest: 22.5 by 29 cm. Condition: used
Lot 174
Classicistic Cross
Classicistic Cross, bronze with remains of silver colours. Austrian early 19th Century. 50 cm high.
Lot 137
French Inkwell
French Inkwell, Hurdy Gurdy player with girl, painted and glazed, French 19th century, 18 cm long
Lot 187
Mull of Galloway Compass
Mull of Galloway Compass, bronze, glass. 5 cm diameter. 20th Century.
Lot 166
Four wood Decorations
Four wood Decorations, partly tools and carved. 18/19th Century.
Lot 189
Marine Compass
Marine Compass, bronze mantle with movable compass and light space. Glass. 20th Century. 16 cm high.
Lot of Six Bronze and Metal Objects, in different style, sizes and ages.
Lot 381
AN EQUESTRIAN PORTRAIT OF GURU GOBIND SINGH AND THE CHAR SAHIBZADAY (FOUR SONS), PUNJAB HILLS, MOST
Guru Gobind Singh was the tenth and last nanak or Sikh preacher. He is credited with having formalised the religion. Contemporaneous to the Empero...
Lot 362
DESAKH RAGINI, WRESTLERS PERFORMING IN A LANDSCAPE, ORRCHA SCHOOL, CENTRAL INDIA, CIRCA 1770
Leaf from a Ragamala series, Desakh Ragini. Gouache and gold on paper. 32 by 19 cm. CATALOGUE NOTE Ragamala paintings are inspired by ...
The Handbook of Marks on Chinese Ceramics : Hardcover – 1 Jun. 1994, 16 by 24 cm. Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs and Some Other Dated...
Kraak Porcelain. A moment in the history of trade. 98 colour and black and white plates, maps and drawings, bibliography and index. Foreword...
A round silver gilt phalera from the late classical period showing the combat of a cavalryman with a foot soldier. The horseman is attacking the s...
Lot 298
THE THRONE VERSE (AYAT AL-KURSI) IN THE FORM OF A CALLIGRAPHIC HORSE, INDIA, DECCAN, BIJAPUR, 19TH C
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper Text: Quran 2 surah Al-Baqarah v.255. The text of the Throne Verse begins at the horse’s head; the first ...
JORG, Christian (in association with Jan van Campen). CHINESE Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam : The Ming and Qing D...
Lot 295
A RARE NON COLORED PRINTED FRENCH MAP OF THE ARABIC WORLD DURING THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE (ARABIA PENINSUL
Printed in black and white on thick paper. The continent showing the city/town names, such as Hejaz, Yemen, Hadramout, Najid, and the Arabian dese...
Persian manuscript on paper, 12 lines of text in nasta'liq script in black written horizontally and 2 lines written vertically in black ink within...
Arabic manuscript on paper, depicting a detailed map of the routes to Mecca and Medina, with further details of the routes to Yemen, Iraq and Syri...
Opaque watercolor heightened with gold on paper. 81 by 56 cm. Catalogue Note. Compare with another illustration of the same subject in ...
Opaque pigments and gold on paper, on album leaf, depicting a standing Shah Jahan, with a halo and holding a sword in his right hand. 21 by 13...
The lid with a scene of three Chinese scholars at a table, set above a scene of an elderly Chinese on horseback with two attendants; the reverse w...
An Ottoman mother-of-pearl inlaid wooden and steel gun sighted barrel retained by four metal embossed barrel-bands, engraved lock, characteristic ...
Opaque watercolor and gold on paper. 30 by 23 cm.
Lot 374
THE THREE YOUNGER SONS OF SHAH JAHAN SHAH, AURANGZEB AND MURAD BAKHSH HAWKING IN A LANDSCAPE, MUGHAL
Opaque watercolor and gold on marble. Painting: 11 by 7.5 cm. Including frame 32 by 27 cm.
Lot 164
Lot of ten Textile Objects
Lot of ten Textile Objects, in different sizes, age and style.
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-orange in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah (386-411 AH/996-1...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque brown in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 2.998g, 21.3 mm, coin ...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent dark-violet in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Al-Zahir (412-427 AH/1021-1036...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque white in colour, citing in the centre with the star of Solomon. 1.544g, 14 mm, coin weight: half d...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent greenish-white in colour with blue splash, citing in the centre with " Ali Al-Suwajdi", 3.022g, 2...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque dark-black in colour, citing in the centre with " Ali al-Shaubah", 2.950g, 22 mm, coin weight: dirham....
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque greenish-white in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Al-Fa'iz (549-555 AH/1154–1160 AD...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent light-green in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 5.377g, 27 ...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque brown in colour with white splashes, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 1....
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-green in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Imam Ma'ad (427-487 AH/1036-1094 AD),...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque greenish-white in colour, citing in the centre with 3 lines of undeciphered Arabic text, 1.465g, 16.5 ...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent pale-green in colour, citing in the centre with the name Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah( 386-411 AH/996-10...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, opaque black in colour, citing in the centre with the star of Solomon, 5.982g, 25 mm, coin weight: double dir...
A Glass weight, moulded and stamped, transparent light-green in colour, citing in the centre with 2 lines of undeciphered Arabic text. 5.665 g., 2...
A large iron Byzantine processional cross from the middle Byzantine period. The choice of iron was common for such crosses in particular for the c...
CATALOGUE NOTE The inscriptions are a repetition of 'Malbus Aleafia'. ????? ??????? 138 by 75 cm.
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