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Click here to subscribeA Chinese bronze and gilt Buddha with child, seated beneath a bodhi tree, 17/18th C. H.: 19,5 cm Provenance: The Van Herck collection, Antwerp Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A Chinese bronze incense burner modeled as a reclining elephant, Ming Dynasty, 16/17th C. H.: 14 cm Provenance: The Van Herck collection, Antwerp Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A partial gilt seated bronze buddha, Yongzheng mark, 19th C. or earlier H: 39 cm L: 40 cm Condition: good. The gold paint somewhat worn. Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
Two Chinese or Tibetan bronze figures, one of Tara seated on a tiger and a set of soapstone carvings, 18/19th C. H: 24 cm (the bronze Tara) L: 27 cm (the soapstone group with monkeys and deers) Condition: damages and repairs to the soapstone figures. Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A collection of various Japanese porcelain plates including Imari, Satsuma, etc. 18/19th C. Dia.: 25 cm (the widest) H: 21,5 cm (the bronze mount) Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
A fine Japanese bronze vase, 19th C. and an Imari spice box with dolphin finial, 17/18th C. H.: 24 cm (the bronze vase) Condition: The spice box probably lacking the covers. Condition reports and high resolution pictures are available on our website at www.rm-auctions.com. Further questions are always welcome at info@rm-auctions.com
SELECTION OF SPORTING AND MILITARY BADGES including a cased Scouts lapel badge, bronze, silver and other swimming badges, a 1973 Basket Ball medal, eight various Scottish dance medals, International Dance Teachers Association and other medals, eight various cycling badges, various football, golf, tennis and athletic medals and badges, a selection of military badges including the Coldstream Guards, Royal Warwickshire, Mobile Defence Corps, East Anglia, A.C.C. and others and a selection of horse racing badges for Hamilton Park, Kelso and Longchamp
A pair of 19th Century patinated and gilt bronze candle lustres in the French Empire taste, the plain trumpet sockets over glass drops supported on the head of an Egypto-Classical style robed figure with feathered headdress, raised on a stepped square plinth base CONDITION REPORTS One candlestick is significantly bent, top of the candlestick is bent, both candlesticks with some denting and mis-shaping. Some wear to the giltwork, some pitted marks, some chips and losses to the ends of the glass drops, general signs of wear and tear throughout. 21.5 cm high
A 19th Century gilt bronze candlestick in the Empire taste, the socket with lion mask monopodia supported bowl, raised on a column decorated with three caryatids and floral swags, raised on a foliate and beadwork decorated circular foot (converted to table lamp) CONDITION REPORTS The gilt has worn away revealing the bronze beneath, particularly to the swags and fruit drops. Has general wear and tear including dirt, scratches, small areas of pitting etc, please see photos for details
Ancient Greece, modern wooden three drawer glazed top cabinet, containing Tetradrachms of Athens, etc, Drachms including Alexander the Great, others including fractionals in silver and bronze; the bronze mostly contemporary, the silver of excellent style, but most modern fabrications-made using the ancient techniques, with tickets and other related ephemera; with a copy of a paperback book published in Sofia in 2000; a fascinating collection worthy of further research [*40]
GHAZNAVID, TEMP. MAS’UD I (421-432h), Obverse die for a dinar of Harat 423h, in bronze. LEGENDS: In margins: Qur’an 30:4-5 (outer); mint and date (inner); In field: al-nasir li-din | Allah | la ilaha illa | Allah wahdahu | la sharik lahu | al-Qadir billah | ornament below. DIMENSIONS: Diameter: 22.1mm (of slightly raised central portion bearing legends), 26.5mm overall; Thickness: 4.5-6mm, 9.8mm including small square lug for attachment or striking. CONDITION: Good very fine and extremely rare. Mediaeval Islamic coin dies are extremely rare today. The high quality of the engraving on this example suggests that it was an official production; surviving forgers’ dies generally being of much cruder manufacture.
UMAYYAD, TEMP. ‘ABD AL-MALIK B. MARWAN (65-86h), Circular bronze weight, naming al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf. OBVERSE: bismillah a- | mr al-amir al-Hajja- | j bin Yusuf bi’l-wa- | fa hadha mizan | tisa‘ engraved in five lines with central point between third and fourth. REVERSE: plain, with central point and slightly raised border at margin, 36.05g. REFERENCE: cf Walker, J., ‘Some recent Oriental coin acquisitions of the British Museum,’ Numismatic Chronicle, Fifth Series, vol. XV (1935), pp.241-253, no.3 (denominated for ‘six’); cf Morton and Eden auction 69, 10 April 2014, lot 27 for a square weight with similar legends denominated for ‘three’).. CONDITION: Very fine and extremely rare. These extremely rare bronze weights were evidently denominated in mithqals, and examples are known for three, six and nine mithqals weight. The present example appears to be the heaviest weight of this type so far recorded. Interestingly, the mark of value is always written with a final ta marbuta, unlike the standard mint/date formula on contemporary Umayyad coins. Walker dated these weights to the period of ‘Abd al-Malik’s coinage reforms in the mid-70s, and further suggested that these bronze pieces predated the adoption of glass weights. He concluded his publication of the British Museum specimen: ‘The metal coin weights that were first employed by the Muslims must be extremely rare. I know of no other published example.’
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