RECENT ACQUISITIONS - 28th JUNE, 2018.
20th Century Thai silver & niello cigar box. Of traditional form with wood fitted interior, lid depicting the Bangkok riding & polo club, presented by friends and members to the club and signed on the inside lid, sides decorated with dense floral ground.
Reference Number: A5451
19th Century Austrian hand painted enamel dish applied with silver mounts. The scallop-shaped dish with a saucer centered with 5 reserves depicting various religious scenes, surrounded by scrolling foliage, masks and raised on four ball shaped feet and reverse depicting a continuous landscape surrounded by scrolling ivy.
Hallmarked with Vienna town mark (A), Maker KB for Karl Bank.
Reference Number: A5285
19th Century Indian Colonial silver Royal presentation tea tray, the oval tray boarder decorated with eight snakes and textured scale boarder, facing each other forming handles and in the middle facing fighting mongoose, the tops profusely and beautifully repousse' decorated with a religious idols, a typical scenes from the Meenakshi Amman temple in southern India.
Reference Number: A5450
20th Century Japanese Meiji period solid silver & enamel pair of vases on tri-form bases with enameled scrolling foliage, the sides chased and applied with enamelled wisteria.
Hallmarked with Jungin (950+ pure silver) and with maker's mark of turtle in triangle for Sanju Saku, Yokohama.
Reference Number: A5376