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LOT 1966
Tibetan Agate Prayer Bead Necklace with Glass Buddha Pendant
20TH CENTURY A.D.
24 3/8 in. (60.4 grams, 60.2 cm).
Restrung group of discoid, fusiform and other beads in banded agate, bone and other materials, with centrepiece pendant of seated Buddha on a dark stone backing. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate collection, UK.
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LOT 1966
Tibetan Agate Prayer Bead Necklace with Glass Buddha Pendant
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
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Tibetan Banded Agate and Gilt Prayer Bead Necklace
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Graduated fusiform banded agate beads with gilt metal spacer beads. 175 grams, 76 cm
Private collection, UK. -
Post Medieval Stained and Natural Wooden Gaming Pieces
Southern Germany, Nuremberg, 18th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Turned wooden counters in natural and dark-stained versions; some of the darker type with the bust of a Holy Roman Emperor to one face and a prospect of a city (Vienna, Danzig, etc.), as well as comic figures and scenes; the lighter group with similar motifs as well as hunting and other scenes. 320 grams total, 51 mm each
Private collection, Europe. Acquired on the English art market.
Similar game pieces are often signed ‘PHM’ for Philipp Heinrich Müller (1654-1719). There are eleven stained pear wood pieces and ten natural pear-wood pieces. The game pieces are decorated with busts, commemorative medals, cities, figural scenes including interiors, daily life and great battles, German / Austrian cities and figures from the engravings of Jacques Callot (1592-1635). -
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Large Post Medieval Merchant’s Seal Ring Engraved with 'BG' and Shield
Germany, 16th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £12,350
Engraved with the owner's initials ‘B G’ above a tilting shield with flanche; merchant's mark motif of capital 'A' and a cross. 20.03 grams, 28.33 mm overall, 23.00 x 18.47 mm internal diameter (approximate size British T 1/2, USA 9 3/4, Europe 21.89, Japan 21)
Private collection, Europe. Acquired on the English art market. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by a search certificate number no.13051-248349.
Merchants' marks were chosen by their owners as a form of personal cypher, and so it is almost impossible to decipher the owner of many merchants' marks, as they were not governed by the strict regulation and recording that heraldry laws dictated. Merchants' rings were engraved with geometric symbols used to mark their goods or personal belongings and used instead of a coat of arms for those not entitled to them. Most merchants in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries had marks, easily identifiable and formed with a few strokes. Many such rings also bear religious or talismanic inscriptions or imagery, combining a spiritual with a commercial function. The shape of the shield on this example draws direct parallels to the heraldic shields and jewels of this period in Germany.
