26th Apr, 2023 11:00

Asian & Islamic Works of Art

 
Lot 270
 

270

A COLLECTION OF ANCIENT JAVANESE BRONZE FRAGMENTS, INDONESIA, MOSTLY 9TH-14TH CENTURY

comprising four mirror handles, a vajra finial, probably from a bell, a crescent-shaped ear ornament, a lion-head finial, two handles from a large vessel, a shaft, probably from a lamp, a pellet bell, a loop handle, a lotus base from a Buddhist image, and four fragmentary ritual ladles, two fused together, 19cm long and smaller (16)

Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent

For a series of closely related mirror handles from Eastern Java in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, see J. E. Lohuizen de Leeuw, 'Indo-Javanese Metalwork', Stuttgart 1984, pp.145-147.

Sold for £220


 

comprising four mirror handles, a vajra finial, probably from a bell, a crescent-shaped ear ornament, a lion-head finial, two handles from a large vessel, a shaft, probably from a lamp, a pellet bell, a loop handle, a lotus base from a Buddhist image, and four fragmentary ritual ladles, two fused together, 19cm long and smaller (16)

Provenance: Collection of a deceased diplomat, thence by descent

For a series of closely related mirror handles from Eastern Java in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart, see J. E. Lohuizen de Leeuw, 'Indo-Javanese Metalwork', Stuttgart 1984, pp.145-147.