RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 20th April, 2017
19th Century Chinese Solid Silver model of a war junk, beautifully made and proportioned, with textured cross hatched sails, flying flags, 4 men crew and moving cannons facing all sides, standing on a hand carved wooden base imitating waves. Such armed junk boats were also pirate junks that plied Chinese rivers such as the Yangtse and Pearl Rivers.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4598
19th Century Indian Colonial Silver three-piece tea set, comprising of teapot, sugar bowl, & cream jug, each straight tapered body is profusely and beautifully repousse' decorated with a religious processions with men carrying idols, a typical scenes from the Meenakshi Amman temple in southern India, handles mounted with snake whisperers and finials depicting Shiva on an elephant.
Unmarked, but acid tested shows a 900+ silver standard, it dates to 1880's, in style and guilty the set strongly suggests it may have been made by P. Orr & Sons.
Reference Number: A4612
19th Century Indian Colonial P. Orr & Sons Silver four-piece tea set, comprising of a coffee pot, teapot, sugar bowl, cream jug, each straight tapered body modelled as bamboo and is beautifully decorated with a religious central band of round pannels dipicting various Swami religious scenes, inspired from the Meenakshi Amman temple in southern India, handles modelled as bamboo and finials modelled as elephants.
Hallmarked Indian Silver (900+ standard), Madras, P. Orr & Sons, it dates to 1880's.
Reference Number: A4624
19th Century Regency solid silver three piece tea set, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl and cream jug, each lobed body resting on flat shaped spreading domed foot, the body chased and embossed with game birds in landscape, leaf-capped scroll handles ternimating with a fruit cornecopia, the hinged covers with lovely cast finial realistically modelled as a pheasant. Each side of the body further engraved with an empresive large family crest sorounded by a rococo boarder. Hallmarked English silver (925), London, year 1824 (i), Maker's mark WEWF for William Eley & William Fearn.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4611
19th Century Indian exceptional solid silver repousse three-piece tea set, comprising of teapot, sugar bowl and cream jug, each piece is profusely and beautifully repousse' decorated with scrolling foliage and flowers on a tooled ground, depicting hunters on horseback and elephant, holding spears, swords and guns, accompanied with hunting dogs, hunting tigers and boars.
Unmarked, which is often the case for Indian silver, it has been tested silver (900+ standard), the piece dates to the late 19th century.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4613
19th Century Indian exceptionally rare solid silver repousse three-piece tea set, comprising of teapot, lidded sugar bowl and cream jug, each piece is profusely and beautifully repousse' decorated with scrolling foliage and flowers on a tooled ground, made in the shape of coco de mer.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4614
19th Century Chinese three piece tea set, comprising of teapot, lidded sugar bowl and cream jug. Each piece has straight can shaped body, panels chased in relief with various decorative scenes such as animals in the jungle, dragons and people in villages on a matted ground, lids mounted with bamboo finial and applied handles are modelled as bamboo branches.
Hallmarked with Chinese silver marks, Maker Bao Cheng.
Reference Number: A4625
19th Century Indian Kutch, Bhuj, Gujarat region, silver vase, all over finely chased with scrolling leaves and flower pattern on a finely tooled background, the main body depicting hunting scenes, flying birds, surrounded by floral decoration typical of Kutch work. The boarder top of the vase has pierced decoration, acid tested (900+ standard), the piece dates to 1880's.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4606
19th Century Indian Cutch solid silver cheroot case, of large size and heavy gauge, with rounded corners, finely chased all over with detailed chasing on matted ground, depicting dense flowers and scrolls. The top and bottom bears two vacant cartooches and has beaded bands along the top, centre and bottom. The hinged lip flips open at a push of a button thumbpiece, not hallmarked, tested as 900+ silver.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4615
20thC Burmese Silver box, of octagonal form, the sides and the cover are embossed and chased with figures in very high-relief, surrounded by typical scrolling foliage.
Reference Number: A4631
A Faberge style hard-stone carved study of a flower, the petals intricately carved from rose quarts, the leaves from nephrite, the textured branches made of solid 14k gold and the center of the flower mounted with a clean and bright diamond. The stem fits in a translucent rock crystal vase. Stem hallmarked with spurious Faberge marks, Maker H.W. for Henrik Wigstrom.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A4621
