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Antique Burmese Buddhist Kammavaca Manuscript with Case
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Burma, 19th century Kammavaca manuscript with case. Sixteen gilt and lacquer leaves with two gilt and lacquer book covers. Wood coated with lacquer, twelve lines to each leaf written...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Burmese Other Religious Items
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Chinese Porcelain Pillar Blue
White Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese porcelain dragon snuff bottle, unusual cylindrical pillar form with no neck, unglazed top and bottom concentric grooved base, narrow aperture, painted in under glaze cobalt b...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Cameo Agate Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Cameo Agate Snuff Bottle, rounded square from with raised foot rim and round neck, concave mouth rim, narrow mouth, well hollowed depicting a horse, bee and a monkey....
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Agate
Japanese 19th Century Tabako Ire Leather Pouch with Pipe, Silver Menuki, Ojime
Located in Point Richmond, CA
These pieces are a part of smoking set tabako-ire. It consists of a kiseruzutsu (pipe case), a kiseru (pipe), and a tonkotsu (tobacco pouch). The pouch is made of lacquered crocodile...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Silver, Brass
Antique Chinese Blue
White Porcelain Dragon Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese porcelain dragon snuff bottle, cylindrical pillar form with high shoulder, short neck, everted lip and concentric grooved base painted in underglaze cobalt blue of a single f...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Chinese Natural Gourd Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Natural Gourd Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. A dried globular knobby gourd that is hollowed, lacquered and buffed to serve as a snuff bottle with an...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Organic Material
Antique Chinese Black-and-White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Black-and-White Jade Pebble Snuff Bottle, nephrite carved in the overall shape of a white peach of longevity with a black bat of happiness resting...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Jade
Antique Japanese Mitsuore Ningyo of a Girl
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Mitsuore ningyo of a girl, a jointed costume doll crafted of wood and covered in multiple layers of burnished gofun, made to stand as well as kneel, fabric and wire upper arms to facilitate costuming, a beautiful modeled face...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Toys and Dolls
Materials
Silk, Wood
Antique Chinese Black “Sea Pine” Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Black “sea pine” snuff bottle of a rocky outcropping with a fish and crayfish in relief, 4 inset green shell eyes, hollowed interior. Jadeite stopper with brass colla...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Organic Material
Antique Chinese Burl Wood Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese burl wood snuff bottle with a large auspicious three legged toad on the front in high relief, overall oval shape with oval foot rim and countersunk flat base, adequat...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Burl
A Pair of Burmese Rock Crystal Reliquaries
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Pair of Burmese Rock Crystal Reliquaries. Two Buddhist stupa shaped containers, one with a bulbous beggar’s bowl shaped body and the other with flange...
Category
Antique 18th Century Burmese Other Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal
$4,000 / set
Antique Chinese Cinnabar-red Overlay White Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Cinnabar-red Overlay White Glass Snuff Bottle, 19th century. The flat oval white glass bottle has a thinn overlay of opaque dense red glass resembling cinnabar lacquer and deeply carved away in a cinnabar style to reveal a scholar’s studio with a footed vase with flower arrangement, teapot with a bird on top and a low table on one side, the other with a scene of a fish drum(token symbol of the immortal Zhang Guo Lao...
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Glass
Antique Chinese Natural Double Gourd Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Natural Double Gourd Snuff Bottle, Qing Dynasty. The long natural gourd is referred to as a double gourd having a cinched waist cent...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Organic Material
Collection of Six Vintage Woodworking Files
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Collection of Six vintage woodworking files
United States
20th century
Cast steel
Height on custom display stands: 16.25 - 22.75 in. / 41 - 58 cm.
Category
20th Century American Other Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
Collection of Three Vintage Tractor Wrenches
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Collection of Three Vintage Tractor wrenches
United States
Early 20th century
Cast steel
7, 8.5, and 12 in. / 18, 22, 31 cm
Custom display measu...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Mounted Objects
Materials
Steel
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Peking Red Overlay Snowflake Glass Snuff Bottle, of flattened ovoid shape with sloping shoulders, round neck, thin and flat mouth rim, raised oval foot and countersun...
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Chinese Qing Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Glass
Vintage Pal Kepenyes Bronze/Brass Necklace, 20th Century
By Pal Kepenyes
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Pal Kepenyes bronze/brass necklace, 20th century.
This Hungarian born artist worked in Mexico for decades, known for free-form sculptural jewelry...
Category
20th Century Mexican Modern Tribal Art
Materials
Brass, Bronze
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
African Bug Bead Necklace, Old Hand-Cast Metal Beads
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Fulani, Nigeria
Hand-cast brass beads on a hand-woven cord
19th century
Measures: 17 in. / 43 cm
8 oz. / 227 g.
Category
Antique 19th Century Nigerian Tribal Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Bocce Balls, France, Set of Three
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Late 19th to early 20th century bocce balls, France, set of three
boxwood, iron and brass nails.
The first ball has the letters PP in brass, the second ha...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Folk Art Game Boards
Materials
Brass, Iron
17th Century Large Dutch Private Pew Currently Converted into a Bar
Located in Point Richmond, CA
17th century large Dutch oak private pew currently converted into a bar
Originally from a church in Amsterdam. The enclosure would have been used by a noble family and probably ha...
Category
Antique 17th Century Dutch Dutch Colonial Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Early 20th Century Shield, Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Early 20th Century Shield, Wahgi Valley, Western Highlands, Papua New Guinea
This large, post contact, shield is traditionally decorated in bold colors with a central circle. This ...
Category
Early 20th Century Papua New Guinean Other Tribal Art
Materials
Enamel, Wire
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19th Century Bronze Pipe
Located in Copenhagen, K
Fantastic bronze pipe from the Vienna tobacco museum’s collection, from Belgian Congo.
Category
Antique 19th Century Congolese Folk Art Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Bronze
Fine Chinese Blue and White Porcelain Spoon, c. 1850
Located in Chicago, IL
A delicate example of the time-honored practice of blue-and-white ceramics, this 19th century porcelain soup spoon was likely used as an everyday ...
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century Chinese Qing Ceramics
Materials
Porcelain
19th Century Austrian Meerschaum and Silver Carved Pipe
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Austrian silver mounted meerschaum carved pipe, circa 1890. Note, missing stem.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Austrian Tobacco Accessories
Materials
Silver
Japanese Kiseru Tobacco Pipe
Case, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant pipe of white brass and bamboo dates to early 20th century Japan and was used for smoking finely shredded tobacco (kizami-tabako). Known as a rao-kiseru, these short smo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture
Materials
Brass
Chinese Blue and White Snuff Bottle, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing Bottles
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Asian Bronze buddhist bell Tibetan Meditation Prayer Ghanta Bell
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Antique Asian Bronze buddhist bell Tibetan Meditation Prayer Ghanta Bell.
Buddhist Tibetan Meditation Prayer Bell.
A Bronze ritual bell "DRILBU" in Tibetan or commonly known as "Ghan...
Category
Antique Early 1900s Tibetan Tibetan Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
19th Century Buddhist Manuscript Trunk
Located in New York, NY
A 19th century Buddhist Manuscript Chest - Trunk. Antique Burmese Sadaik Chest of the Mandalay Period. Once used to hold Buddhist texts and the likes of devotional practice. Wonderfully decorated Gilt over black with Buddhist scenes of teaching, followers, temples, and elephant on one side. Teak hard wood top lifts off the chest for storage. Can be used as blanket chest, bedside, table with storage, stand for display or collection. An beautiful antique decorative chest...
Category
Antique 1890s Thai Trunks and Luggage
Materials
Teak
Chinese Spittoon Dross Box with Buddhist Symbols, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
By the 18th century, opium use had become as central to Chinese social life as taking tea or smoking tobacco, fostering a subculture rich with its own customs, traditions, and exquis...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Qing More Asian Art, Objects and Furniture
Materials
Brass, Copper
Miniature illuminated manuscript on vellum with 12 full-page miniatures
By Francois-Jacques Boeri
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
A tiny and complete Parisian Book of Hours with a plethora of intricate illuminations.
91 x 65mm (3.6 x 2.6in). 190 leaves on vellum, additional 4 paper leaves after (plus 3 paper e...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier European French Provincial Books
Materials
Leather
$77,706
H 2.1 in W 1.5 in D 1 in
Chinese Grey Agate Snuff Bottle, c. 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
A mixture of finely powdered tobacco, herbs, and spices, snuff was introduced to China in the 17th century by Western diplomats. Initially reserved for ranking members of Qing-dynast...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Bottles
Materials
Agate
Ancient Buddhist Stone Tabletop Altar with a Lotus Flower
Located in Antwerp, BE
An exceptional and very early Buddhist stone altar equipped with two handgrips for moving it to the spot of the planned sacrifice. Carved by hand from a si...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Asian Hellenistic Antiquities
Materials
Schist
$7,206 Sale Price
20% Off
H 8.67 in W 18.12 in D 2.37 in
Burmese Buddhism Scripture with Lacquer Covers
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large Theravada Buddhism scripture book from Burma, circa late 19th century-early 20th century. The book opens to continuous folding pages that is accordion like. Ink scriptures in curvy Burmese language were handwritten on both sides of the pages. The papers are bind by two lacquered wood covers with elaborate design that features relief scrolls and mini mosaic...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Burmese Other Lacquer
Materials
Lacquer, Paper
