04-23-201304-24-2013
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  • Two Persian Pen Boxes, Qalamdan

    Two Persian Pen Boxes, Qalamdan

    Lot: 1
    Sold for: $1,107$900

    Two Persian Pen Boxes, Qalamdan, Iran, 19th century, polychrome on lacquered papier-mache, with rounded ends and sliding trays, the top of one painted with a central cartouche of a figure holding a more ...

  • Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

    Illuminated Manuscript Leaf

    Lot: 2
    Sold for: $10,800$9,000

    Illuminated Manuscript Leaf, Persia, 19th century, ink, color, and gold on paper, painted with a miniature possibly depicting the deaths of Layla and Majnun, with an elderly man holding the more ...

  • Illustrated Manuscript

    Illustrated Manuscript

    Lot: 3
    Sold for: $240$200

    Illustrated Manuscript, Persia, 19th/20th century, ink, color, and gold on paper, ten lines to the page written in naskh script, with interlinear decorations and illustrations along the exterior more ...

  • Miniature Painting

    Miniature Painting

    Lot: 4
    Sold for: $1,320$1,100

    Miniature Painting, Mughal India, 19th century, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, depicting a Mughal prince, with a halo encircling his turbaned head, leaping from his horse to slay a more ...

  • Miniature Painting

    Miniature Painting

    Lot: 5
    Sold for: $420$350

    Miniature Painting, Mughal India, 19th century, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, depicting Shah Jahan (1592-1666) on horseback, a halo encircling his turbaned head, hunting a tiger with more ...

  • Miniature Painting, Khambavati Ragini

    Miniature Painting, Khambavati Ragini

    Lot: 6
    Sold for: $1,140$950

    Miniature Painting, Khambavati Ragini, Mughal India, 19th century or earlier, ink, color, gold, and silver on paper, depicting a woman performing an offering within a courtyard before the more ...

  • Three Miniature Paintings

    Three Miniature Paintings

    Lot: 7
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    Three Miniature Paintings, probably India, 19th/20th century, ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, a polo game, an evening courtyard scene, and a congregation of men, all with text written in more ...

  • Painting of a Scene from The Ramayana

    Painting of a Scene from The Ramayana

    Lot: 8
    Sold for: $2,520$2,100

    Painting of a Scene from The Ramayana, India, 19th century, gouache and gold on paper, depicting the battle between the armies of Rama and Ravana, 8 1/2 x 6, frame 13 3/8 x 10 3/8 in. more ...

  • Three-piece Indian Bridal Suit

    Three-piece Indian Bridal Suit

    Lot: 9
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    Three-piece Indian Bridal Suit, India, 20th century, including a skirt, a silk inner vest, and a veil (odani),the skirt, and veil luxuriously embroidered with gold threads and beaded. more ...

  • Ivory Handle

    Ivory Handle

    Lot: 10
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    Ivory Handle, Southeast Asia, 19th century, cylindrical, the midsection carved in relief with dancing figures amidst scrolling foliage, with wood stand, lg. 7 3/4 in. more ...

  • Ten Shadow Puppets, Wayang Kulit

    Ten Shadow Puppets, Wayang Kulit

    Lot: 11
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    Ten Shadow Puppets, Wayang Kulit, Indonesia, 20th century, pigment on leather, eight figures, an animal, and a pierced panel, supported by buffalo horn and wood handles and control rods, ht. to 20 more ...

  • Parang with Sheath

    Parang with Sheath

    Lot: 12
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    Parang with Sheath, Indonesia, possibly Java, 19th century, the wood hilt with carved and pierced leaf scroll decorations, the single-edge blade slightly curved and incised "1658," the wood sheath more ...

  • Parang and Sheath

    Parang and Sheath

    Lot: 13
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    Parang and Sheath, Indonesia, probably Bali, 19th century, the single-edge straight iron blade with damascene pattern and a slight bowing from the base outwards to a sharp point at the tip, the base more ...

  • Kris and Sheath

    Kris and Sheath

    Lot: 14
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    Kris and Sheath, Indonesia, possibly Minangkabau, 19th/20th century, typical form, with wood hilt and lea-form wrangka, the blade consists of thirteen luk or curves, with a beaded mendak, together more ...

  • Kris Talisman with Sheath

    Kris Talisman with Sheath

    Lot: 15
    Sold for: $369$300

    Kris Talisman with Sheath, Indonesia, 19th/20th century, with carved ivory hilt and wrangka, the blade with five luk or curves, the ivory sheath decorated with two silvered brass bands with etched more ...

  • Gurkha Knife with Two Utility Knives in One Sheath, Kukri

    Gurkha Knife with Two Utility Knives in One Sheath, Kukri

    Lot: 16
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    Gurkha Knife with Two Utility Knives in One Sheath, Kukri, southern Asia, 19th/20th century, the curved, fullered blade with two notches at the base, the bronze and wood hilt decorated with dotted more ...

  • Partial Dancer's Headdress

    Partial Dancer's Headdress

    Lot: 17
    Sold for: $1,080$900

    Partial Dancer's Headdress, Bali, arched form, comprising gilt sheet metal of blossom and fan forms, encrusted with rhinestones, some dangling and others set en tremblant, mounted on metal stand, more ...

  • Gilt-metal Seated Buddha

    Gilt-metal Seated Buddha

    Lot: 18
    Sold for: $840$700

    Gilt-metal Seated Buddha, Thailand, 19th/20th century, the figure depicted seated in dhyanasana on a stepped pedestal base decorated with red pigment, with his right hand in bhumisparsha and his more ...

  • Bronze Head of Buddha

    Bronze Head of Buddha

    Lot: 19
    Sold for: $1,020$850

    Bronze Head of Buddha, Thailand, 19th century, Sukhothai-style, his face with serene expression, elongated earlobes, curled hair and usnisha surmounted by a flame, ht. 9 in., mounted on a wood more ...

  • Bavardages (Gossip)

    Bavardages (Gossip)

    Lot: 20
    Sold for: $18,450$15,000

    Bavardages (Gossip),Vu Cao Dam (Vietnam 1908-France 2000),oil on canvas, depicting two women amidst blossoms, signed "Vu Cao Dam 64" l.l., titled on a presentation plaque, 17 3/4 x 14 1/2, frame more ...

  • Le Printemps (Spring)

    Le Printemps (Spring)

    Lot: 21
    Sold for: $30,750$25,000

    Le Printemps (Spring),Vu Cao Dam (Vietnam 1908-France 2000),oil on canvas, depicting a woman holding a child, signed "Vu Cao Dam 64" l.r., titled on a presentation plaque, 23 3/8 x 17 1/2, frame more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Woman with a Rose

    Ivory Okimono of a Woman with a Rose

    Lot: 22
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    Ivory Okimono of a Woman with a Rose, Japan, 19th/20th century, standing on a round base, holding a stemmed rose with her right hand and a hoe over her left shoulder, a book tied to the hoe on her more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Fisherman

    Ivory Okimono of a Fisherman

    Lot: 23
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    Ivory Okimono of a Fisherman, Japan, 19th/20th century, enjoying the moment of his catch, probably holding a fishing pole (now missing) connected by a line to the jumping fish around his left knee, more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Man with Grapes

    Ivory Okimono of a Man with Grapes

    Lot: 24
    Sold for: $510$425

    Ivory Okimono of a Man with Grapes, Japan, 19th/20th century, a ram jumping for the grapes the man holds with his right hand, a basket of grapes in his left hand, colored black on incised details, more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Farmer

    Ivory Okimono of a Farmer

    Lot: 25
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    Ivory Okimono of a Farmer, Japan, 19th/20th century, pouring winnowed rice into a bucket on the ground, incised details stained in black and two tones of brown, signed Yanagi Yama on base, ht. 7 1/4 more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Man

    Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Man

    Lot: 26
    Sold for: $570$475

    Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Man, Japan, 19th/20th century, standing with his right foot raised on a tree trunk, with a rooster and a hen, a smoking pipe in his right hand and a basket on his more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Official

    Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Official

    Lot: 27
    Sold for: $540$450

    Ivory Okimono of a Smiling Official, Japan, 19th/20th century, standing behind a water jar, a cup in his right hand and a water scoop in his left, his robe decorated with three incised dragons, more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of a Man with Rams

    Ivory Okimono of a Man with Rams

    Lot: 28
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    Ivory Okimono of a Man with Rams, Japan, 19th/20th century, the man with samurai hairstyle in a topknot and wearing sandals, trying to feed grapes to a baby ram, another ram sitting on the ground, more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of Two Immortals with a Crane

    Ivory Okimono of Two Immortals with a Crane

    Lot: 29
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    Ivory Okimono of Two Immortals with a Crane, Japan, 19th/20th century, standing together, one holding a wooden staff, the other holding a crane with both hands, with incised and carved details more ...

  • Ivory Okimono of Fukurokuju with a Crane

    Ivory Okimono of Fukurokuju with a Crane

    Lot: 30
    Sold for: $738$600

    Ivory Okimono of Fukurokuju with a Crane, Japan, 19th/20th century, Japanese Lucky God of Wisdom and Longevity holding a wooden staff in his right hand and a paper roll in his left, with a crane, more ...