RECENT ACQUISTIONS - 17th October, 2018
20th Century Japanese silver three piece tea set, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl and lidded cream jug, double walled, embossed with bamboo leaves in water in high relief on matted ground, C-form bamboo handles, lids applied with realistically modelled cut bamboo.
Hallmarked with the jungin mark (950+), Maker Unknown.
Reference Number: A5522
20th Century Imperial Russian silver-gilt & guilloche enamel cigarette case, body enamelled in translucent red over a engine-turned ground, the thumb piece mounted with finely set old cut diamonds, lid mounted with initials PM, inside richly parcel gilded and engraved in Cyrillic; Kavkaz-Galitzia, 1914-1915.
Hallmarked Russian silver 88 (916), St-Petersburg, year 1908-1917, Maker's mark in Cyrillic; Britzin.
Reference Number: B5528
20th Century Thailand silver & niello pair of Royal presentation photograph frames. Upright rectangular form with curved triangular surmount, each centred with gold and enamel Thai royal crest, one for Bhumibol Adulyadej (King Bhumibol the Great) and the other Sirikit (Queen Mother of Thailand), inside bearing signed and dated 1969 photographs, frame boarders decorated with dense floral ground mounted on a varnished wood back with support.
Hallmarked Sterling (925), Maker Thai Nakon (Royal Thai Silversmiths, Bangkok).
Reference Number: A5554
20th Century Japanese Meiji period silver water dragon vase, chased, embossed and applied with a water dragon in very high relief with applied flowing whiskers, the neck applied with a cast dragon.
Tested (925 silver), Meiji period (1868-1912), Signed Mitsuhiro.
Reference Number: A5549