Mixed lot (4 pieces), India: an incense burner with a lid featuring a horse and rider, as well as three children’s toys (two on wheels). Everything is cast from brass-bronze.
Mixed lot (4 pieces), India: an incense burner with a lid featuring a horse and rider, as well as three children’s toys (two on wheels). Everything is cast from brass-bronze.
1: A large four-legged incense burner. Crafted in the form of a bowl with a lid that can be closed. With holes for the smoke on the bowl and lid. The lid features a decorated horse with rider, including a helmet. All parts are cast from brass-bronze using the waste mould technique. With an old, dark brown patina.
Height: 22 cm, width: 13 cm; length: 20 cm. 19th century.
2: Three old children’s toys for well-to-do Indian households: an ornamented processional elephant on four wheels with three eyelets cast at the same time: at the front so it can be pulled along, and at the back so a trailer can be attached. Additionally, a decorated horse in a harness with a saddle, also on wheels and a horse with a warrior, including helmet, sword and shield. All three objects are cast from brass-bronze using the waste mould technique.
Height: 18 cm (the elephant), 13 cm (the horse), 12 cm (the riding warrior). Between the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
All four objects in this mixed lot are without damage. (ME)
Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
06.04.2017 - 15:00
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EUR 300.-
Mixed lot (4 pieces), India: an incense burner with a lid featuring a horse and rider, as well as three children’s toys (two on wheels). Everything is cast from brass-bronze.
1: A large four-legged incense burner. Crafted in the form of a bowl with a lid that can be closed. With holes for the smoke on the bowl and lid. The lid features a decorated horse with rider, including a helmet. All parts are cast from brass-bronze using the waste mould technique. With an old, dark brown patina.
Height: 22 cm, width: 13 cm; length: 20 cm. 19th century.
2: Three old children’s toys for well-to-do Indian households: an ornamented processional elephant on four wheels with three eyelets cast at the same time: at the front so it can be pulled along, and at the back so a trailer can be attached. Additionally, a decorated horse in a harness with a saddle, also on wheels and a horse with a warrior, including helmet, sword and shield. All three objects are cast from brass-bronze using the waste mould technique.
Height: 18 cm (the elephant), 13 cm (the horse), 12 cm (the riding warrior). Between the 19th and the early 20th centuries.
All four objects in this mixed lot are without damage. (ME)
Provenance: Austrian private collection.
Specialist: Erwin Melchardt
Erwin Melchardt
+43-1-515 60-465
erwin.melchardt@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Tribal Art |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 06.04.2017 - 15:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 01.04. - 06.04.2017 |