- WORKS OF ART REFERENCE BOOK COLLECTION
??????????????????????????????????????????????Including: Chinese works of art, cloisonne enamel, archaic bronze, furniture, Buddhist art, Scholar's pieces etc, in total 36...
[more like this] - TIBETAN BUDDHIST GOAT SKULL & HORN KAPALA
Tibetan Buddhist ritual / ceremonial goat skull and horn kapala, clad in repousse sheet metal and inset with glass stones. 9" H x 16" W x 4.5" D....
[more like this] - TOMA AFRICAN MASKS, GUINEA, EARLY 20TH
C.Two Toma Ritual Masks, Guinea/Liberia, Aftrica, early 20th C. Typical Toma style with distinctive flat face with drilled eye holes, horns; decorated with fabric, glass and...
[more like this] - 20TH C. INDIAN NAGA NECKLACES GLASS
BEADS W/ PENDANTSSouth Asia, India, Naga peoples, ca. mid-20th century CE. A fine pair of glass bead necklaces with brass face pendants that were made by the Naga culture...
[more like this] - LOVELY GREEK HELLENISTIC BRONZE PHIALE
W/ OMPHALOSGreece, Hellenistic Period, ca. 4th to 3rd century BCE. A remarkable, cast-bronze phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine, with a hollow, rounded,...
[more like this] - 6 COLIMA OBSIDIAN PECTORALS & MANY WHITE
SHELL BEADS**Originally Listed At $500**
Pre-Columbian, West Mexico, Colima, ca. 300 BCE to 300 CE. A magnificent ensemble of over 100 hand-carved shell beads and 6 hand-knapped...
[more like this] - RARE EGYPTIAN STRIDING IBIS BRONZE /
COBALT BLUE GLASSEgypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 332 to 30 BCE. An extremely rare example of a majestic ibis exhibiting a body shaped from solid glass in an opaque, cobalt-blue...
[more like this] - MASSIVE 19TH C. TIBETAN SILVER CONCH
SHELL TRUMPETCentral Asia, Tibet or Nepal, ca. late 19th to early 20th century CE. A massive conch shell trumpet covered in a sterling silver repousse plating adorned with...
[more like this] - ANCIENT ACHAEMENID GILDED SILVER PHIALE
(FOR WINE)Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A thick 94.96% to 95.78% silver basin or phiale, a special libation bowl used for holding wine,...
[more like this] - RARE 19TH C. CENTRAL ASIAN BRONZE CEREMONIAL
SUGAR AXE**Originally Listed At $1500**
Near East / Central Asia, Iraq & Afghanistan, ca. 18th to 19th century CE. An incredibly rare and beautiful tool known as a sugar...
[more like this] - EXHIBITED ROMAN GLASS DIPPER CUP W/
IRIDESCENCERoman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A dazzling dipper cup or pan known as a trulla, made from translucent blue green glass to present a deep, ribbed...
[more like this] - ACHAEMENID SILVER PHIALE / LIBATION
BOWL (FOR WINE)Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persian Empire, ca. 500 to 330 BCE. A gorgeous libation bowl used for holding wine known as a phiale that exhibits a slightly...
[more like this] - EXHIBITED MARGARET MELLIS PASTEL - "BIG
BURDOCK LEAF"Margaret Mellis (Scottish born in China, 1914-2009). "Big Burdock Leaf" pastel on envelope, n.d. Initialed "M.M." twice at lower left and once at lower right....
[more like this] - KONGO PEOPLES, LARGE FETISH "NKISI NKONDE"
figure 20th c., Yombe group, DRC, carved wood figure with aggressive posture and expression, with applied animal hide, bones, metal, plant fibers, pigment, seeds and glass,...
[more like this] - AFRICAN FETISH FIGURE Namji Protective
Figure for Girls, Cameroon, mid 20th c, painted wood, glass beads and leather, 14 1/2" tall. Doll-like figures like this one were used for ritual purposes, as a protective...
[more like this] - FOSCARINI RITUALS MODERN GLASS PENDANT
CHANDELIER Foscarini Italian Modern minimalist pendant chandelier with three opaque white glass pendant elements. 35" H x 24" diameter....
[more like this] - A TIBETAN THANKGA PAINTING OF HVASHANG
19th or 20th century, ink, colors, and gilt on fabric, very finely painted with many wonderful details, Hvashang, the Patron of Arhats, is seated by a lacquered table with...
[more like this] - FERNANDO AUGUSTO TORRES CEVALLOS FOUR
LITHOGRAPHSFOUR LITHOGRAPHS BY FERNANDO AUGUSTO TORRES CEVALLOS (Ecuador, 20th century): "Puestera," "Vilcabamba," "Napo," and "Ritual." Each pencil signed, titled, dated...
[more like this] - LARGE BURMESE OFFERING VESSEL: Ritual
temple offering vessel of stupa form, with a surmounting bird finial. Gilt & lacquered wood with attached glass & mirrored jewels. Approx. 37.75'' h x 21.5'' dia.
CONDITION:...
[more like this] - TIBETAN THANGKA OF KALACHAKARA & VISHVAMATA
Tibetan Thangka of Kalachakara holding Vishvamata in a Tantric pose, Kalachakara having four faces and multiple arms, each hand holding a Buddhist ritual object, standing...
[more like this] - COLLECTION OF PREDOMINANTLY INTERNATIONAL
WOOD AND STONE DEVOTIONAL ARTICLES, INCLUDING ROCK CRYSTAL AND TWO BRONZE RITUAL PEGS OR PHURBACollection of Predominantly International Wood and Stone Devotional Articles,...
[more like this] - HELEN KALVAK (1901-1984, CANADA) SIGNED
STONE CUTon paper, #32/50, titled "Shaman's Ritual". Also pencil signed, "Eskimo Western Arctic, 1970". Also signed Kalvak in plate. On watermarked paper, Holman. Also identified...
[more like this] - A Sino-Tibetan Dagger Handle Handle
featuring a figure holding a fan gilt and worked in relief and with colored glass cabochons of various sizes mounted throughout. The figure appears to be a deity from the...
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