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Click here to subscribeArte Cinese . A pair of porcelain yellow enamelled vases bearing a painted Kangxi six characters mark within double circle at the base. China, Qing dynasty. The yellow ground decorated with dragons chasing the flaming pearl and big cartouches with ducks in a pond and birds on blossoming branches. European gilded bronze mount at the base and at the top. . Cm 26,50 x 35,50.
Arte Islamica. An animal shaped bronze openwork censer with silver inlays traces Eastern Iran, 11th - 12th century. A censer in the shape of a feline, embellished with many floral motifs and a long three-pointed tail which maybe was used as handle. The object can be opened by means of a hinge near the neck, and the latter is decorated with Kufic inscriptions. Right under the hinge the incense burner is embellished with two painted animals. The "feline" has hollow eyes, and maybe the original object could be refined with two glazed ceramic inlaid – like the lot exposed in Rome during the exhibit "Arte della Civiltà Islamica", which ended last September. Another similar object is the one displayed at the Musée du Louvre (Accession Number AA19).. Cm 25,00 x 27,00.
Arte Sud-Est Asiatico. A rare gilded bronze statue of Buddha Sakyamuni Sri Lanka, Kandy period, 18th century or earlier . Difficult to find on the antiquarian market, the bronze cast sculpture depicts the Gautama Buddha sitting on a double lotus base, in the paryanka position, with the hands performing the dhyanamudra gesture. Worthy of notice are the fine depiction of the flowing robes – recalling the Indian sculptural tradition of Amaravati and Nagajunakonda –, the flaming ornament decorating the hair, and the fixed open eyes, all characteristics typical of the period in exam, or perhaps even of an earlier one. For a similar item refer to the one owned by the Los Angeles Museum of Art (M.79.152.267) and the one owned by the Brooklyn Museum. . Cm 9,50 x 13,00.
Arte Indiana. A bronze statue portraying Shiva Nataraja Southern India, Tamil Nadu, 16th century . Bronze cast portraying Shiva in his manifestation as a deity of destruction, dancing in the circle of fire, crushing with his right foot the dwarf representing ignorance (Apasmara). The figure is pictured with four arms: the right one in the abhayamudra position and the left one pointing to the foot lifted in the act of dancing, representing liberation, while the secondary hands bear two attributes: the drum and the fire.. Cm 19,50.
Arte Cinese . A gilded bronze dated stele depicting a bodhisattva with flaming halo and bearing incised inscriptions on the square base and at the rear of the halo China, dated 5th April 551 CE., Qing dynasty or earlier. On a tall square base with carved inscriptions, lays a second base shaped as a double lotus flower, on which the bodhisattva, perhaps Akasagarbha, stands, adorned by the usual jewels. Further inscriptions are on the back of the flaming halo that surrounds him. Inscriptions: memorial statue sculpted in the Qi period, during the reign of the emperor Timbao (550-559 AD) in the 8th sexagesimal cycle (551 AD). Also, on the base: first district, work gifted on the fifth day of the fourth lunar month (April 5). . Cm 27,50.
A pair of late 19th/early 20th Century parcel gilt and patinated bronze candlesticks, the urn-shaped sconce above arms holding lustre drops, the sphinx with feather decorated crested stem above, reclining on black marble base, 9in. (23cms) high. PROVENANCE Purchased from McCEd, Pimlico Road, London, 22/4/93.
A patinated metal model of an elephant, with trunk raised, standing on associated gilt wood base, 9 1/2 x 8in. (24 x 20cms) high; together with a late 19th Century letter rack, decorated with bell drop flowers on a bronze base, 7in. (18cms) high; a tortoiseshell and bone plaque ball, 3in (8cms) diameter; and a bone plaque ball, 4in (10cms) diameter. (4)
A 19th Century cast bronze model of "The Dying Call", 5 1/2in. (14cms) wide; a 19th Century cast bronze figure of Mercury, in winged sandal and seated on a rocky base, 4 1/2in. (11cms) high; a cast base metal figure "Discobolos (the discus thrower)" (missing one arm), 4 3/4in. (12cms) high; a cold painted leaden figure of a parrot 2 1/2 in. 6cms high; and a Parian decanter in the form of the Lincoln Imp. PROVENANCE Shaw Stewart family, Traigh House, Inverness-shire.
A pair of Venetian style 19th Century parcel gilt and patinated bronze monkey pattern candlesticks, each holding an acanthus decorated urn sconce above their head and wearing Eastern style tunic and trousers, 21cms (8 1/4 in.) high. PROVENANCE Purchased from Kenneth Neame Ltd., Antiques, 3/4/87.
Great Britain, George I, Princess Clementina, Escape from Innsbruck, 1719, silver medal by Otto Hamerani, her bust left, rev., Clementina travelling at speed towards Rome, 48mm (MI 444/49; Eimer 484), some edge knocks, toned, good very fine; Marriage of James (III) to Clementina, 1719, bronze medal, rev., Venus and Hercules, 41mm (MI 445/51; Eimer 486); Birth of the Young Pretender, 1720, bronze medal, rev., Providentia, 41mm (MI 452/60; Eimer 488), good very fine [Clifford lots 505 and 507] (3)
Great Britain, George IV, Coronation, 1821, official bronze medal, by Pistrucci, 35mm (BHM 1070; Eimer 1146), in (damaged) red case of issue, extremely fine; Victoria, Golden Jubilee, 1887, official bronze medal, by Boehm, 77mm, in case of issue, extremely fine; Charles I, Return to London, 1633, cast silver medal, 43mm (MI 267/64; Eimer 124), edge damage, almost fine; together with 50th Anniversary of the Star Newspaper, in silver-gilt, cased and a modern copy of the Embarkation at Scheveningen 1660, in silver (5)
Great Britain, Victoria, The Great Exhibition, 1851, bronze prize medal by W. and L.C. Wyon, conjoined busts of Victoria and Albert, rev., allegorical scene of Britannia conferring wreath on Industria, edge named to James Coulson and Co, Class XIV, 77mm (BHM 2462; Eimer 1456), slight marks, extremely fine, in contemporary fitted case
Northern Italy (16th century), (Vipsania) Agrippina, wife of Tiberius, oval bronze uniface plaquette inscribed agrippina tib v, 56mmx 43mm (Warren, Ashmolean, 389; cf. Scaglia I.38), some solder on reverse, extremely fine; Petronia, wife of Vitellius, oval bronze uniface plaquette, incised petronia vit vx, 82mm x 65mm, very fine, both contemporary casts (2) Plaquettes such as these appear to have been the inspiration behind a series of uniface medals of the twelve Caesars and their wives which have been attributed to Soldani – see the sale of the Charles Avery collection, sold here on 11 June 2008, lot 515.
*Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots (1542-67), uniface bronze medal, undated, by Jacopo Primavera (later 16th century, working in France), maria stovvar regi scot angli, bust of Mary right wearing cap and veil, signed behind bust, ia primave, 66.5mm (Jones I, 159; MI 118/52; Cochran Patrick 14/17 and pl. 1, 12; Mazerolle 300), very fine old cast with brown patina, very rare. Ex Spink, 26 March 2008, lot 2. For a portrait testoon of Mary Queen of Scots see lot 715.
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