Lot 31

Ethnographic Artifacts, Decorative Metalwork, and a Wood Carving, Southeast and East Asian (Late 19th to Early 20th Century)

Estimate: $500 - $800

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Lot 31
Ethnographic Artifacts, Decorative Metalwork, and a Wood Carving, Southeast and East Asian (Late 19th to Early 20th Century)
Description
An assembled estate lot consists of multiple ethnographic artifacts and decorative objects, including a large shallow circular brass presentation dish, three diminutive patinated bronze fluid oil lamps featuring one example mounted with carved jade and cabochon garnet panels, two cast bronze stylized protective dragon figurines alongside a small cast brass winged deity figure, three distinct ceremonial knives including a traditional wavy steel-bladed Indonesian kris with a carved hilt, an openwork architectural structural fragment, a wheel-mounted cast iron ritual vessel configured as an open-topped perforated censer on two open-spoked wheels, a small cast iron ceremonial implement featuring two contiguous gourd-shaped openings, a two-part cast bronze equestrian group depicting a scholar hatted figure holding an open tablet while seated upon a caparisoned horse, and an additional very small bronze dragon figurine measuring 1 inch, with the primary bronze equestrian group measuring 18 x 19 x 6 1/2 inches
Details
Brass, bronze, cast iron, steel, hardwood, jade, garnet
bronze scholar on horseback: 18 x 19 x 6 1/2 inches
architectural wood panel: 6 x 32 x 1/2 inches
Provenance
The Estate of Janice and Donald Rosenthal
Condition
Varying antique condition; widespread surface wear, heavy tarnish, pitting, and oxidation across the alloy surfaces, surface rust visible on the cast iron components, structural loosening to the censer wheel mount, scattered chips and localized structural losses to the carved wood elements, minor surface abrasions to the equestrian figure joints, and surface scratches with natural inclusions to the inset lamp gemstones


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