RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 23rd April, 2018.
20th Century Oriental silver & palm leaf dragon fruit bowl. Large size, the elongated boat shaped bowl adorned with a cast serpentine water dragon, spiked body, enameled eyes and long whiskers.
Hallmarked 925 (sterling), dates to the second half of the 20th century, Maker unknown.
Reference Number: A5305
20th Century Japanese silver five piece tea set, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl, waist bowl, cream jug and sugar tongs, exceptional quality, double walled, embossed with Iris flowers in water in high relief, C-form handles and lids applied with realistically modelled iris flowers.
Hallmarked Sterling (925), Maker Samurai Shokai, Yokohama.
Reference Number: A5304
Early-18th Century Chinese Qing Dynasty silver-gilt pair of tea cups and saucers, repousse and fine chased work, cast cups dipicting people of nobility surrounded by blossom trees and pogodas on finelly tooled ground, mounted with unusually shaped cast scroll handles. The saucers beautifully hand engraved and each applied with four convext sections dipicting birds amongst blooming flowers, such recuring scenes were favourite of Chinese court and painters of the Ming Dynasty and would continue to be used in later Chinese works of Art.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5284
19th Century Indian silver repousse decorated mask cover (mukha-linga) originating from Maharashtra (Western Indian), depicting the Hindu God Shiva (Shiva is one of the principal deities of Hinduism. He is the Supreme Being within Shaivism, one of the major traditions within contemporary Hinduism. Shiva is the "destroyer of evil and the transformer" within the Trimurti, the Hindu trinity that includes Brahma and Vishnu).
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5301
19th Century Indian Important silver pair of document scrolls holders, realistically modelled as pairs resting tigers, mounted with elaborately decorated pierced floral panels to support the suspended scrolls. Although the pair are not marked by the maker they are undoubtedly made by the workshop of Cotha Krishniah Chetty, founded in 1860.
REFERENCE NUMBER: A5303