17th century
Italy
Oil on lapis lazuli
Prov. Private Belgian collection; L. Van Onckelen
Late 17th century
England
H: 7 cm
Prov. Seward Kennedy collection
A rare surviving pair of English lignum vitae dipper cups of similar size and identical decoration; each decorated with double bands of triple reeded ornament.
17th century
Italy
Prov. English art market
Personifications of the four seasons.
19th century
Cook island
Wood
Prov. Private Belgian coll.
Ptolemaic Period
Egypt
Stucco
Prov. Coll. Marie Laforet (1939-…); Paris, Druout (28 Febr. 1977); Pierre Cornette De Saint-Cyr. (Expert Charles Ratton)
Prov. Colnaghi, London, UK
ca. 1700
China
Ivory
Prov. Belgian private coll.
Court tablets carved of ivory were carried by officials whilst in the Imperial presence, and held in front of the face as the court official bowed deeply to the Emperor.
17th century
Catalan or Tuscan workshop
H: 15cm
Prov. Private Italian coll.
A glass jar, cylindrical body and neck with inverted border, decorated with lattice wires. Façon de Venise is a style of glass made in the 16th and 17th centuries at places other than Venice itself but using the techniques that had been perfected there. It may be outwardly so similar as to be difficult to distinguish from Venetian glass proper. The prestige of Venetian glass was so great in the rest of Europe that French, German, Bohemian, Netherlandish, Spanish, and English glassmakers evolved their versions of Venetian style.
First quarter 20th century
Pende people, DRC
Prov. Private Belgian coll.
1500 BC–535 BC
Pakistan
Schist
Prov. T. Desmet, Brussels, Belgium
17th century
Thailand
Bronze, traces of gold laqué
H: 18 cm
Prov. Ancient coll. Dr. Lisfranc
Abhaya means ‘fearlessness’. If you look at this Buddha hand gesture, or mudra, you will also feel the energy of protection, peace and a sense of strong, deep inner security.
17th century
Uffizio workshop, Florence, Italy
Prov. Ancient English coll.
17th century
Wood
11th Dynasty
White stone, rock cristal
Prov. J. Billen, Brussels, Belgium
