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WWII Japanese Officers Sword Army Field Officers Grade (Major, Lt-Col, Colonel).

It is in a nice condition, which you may examinate by pictures or if you need some more please ask.

Dimensions: Total length: 95.5 cm. Blade length: 71.7 cm. Blade width: 2.8 cm.

Starting price: 1500€
Estimate: 1800-2200€

1883 Pattern Senior Petty Officers and the most junior commissioned officers naval dirk complete with its original leather wrapped scabbard that fits like a glove Seen on page 145 of “Japanese Military and Civil Swords and Dirks” by Richard Fuller and Ron Gregory (Published 1996) Described by those EXPERT authors as “EXAMPLES OF THESE DIRKS ARE RARE” This dirk is VERY DIFFERENT to the 1883 Pattern Commissioned Officers model (which are also far from “common”) because they do not carry the floral ornamentation of Cherry Blossoms usually seen on the officer’s pattern The handle shape is very distinctively different, as is the blade configuration and grove MOST ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy went to Davy Jones’s Locker rather than surrender, that likely a contributing factor to the great SCARCITY of these on the collector market today.

Dimensions: Total length: 42 cm. Blade length: 25.7 cm. Blade width: 2 cm.

Starting price: 1000€
Estimate: 1300-1500€

An Icon “The Mother of God of Korsun”. Icon: wood, tempera, leaf and melted gold. Riza: silver 84 , chasing, mounting, edging, engraving, niello, enamel, colored stones or glass, gilding. Vladimir, 1857, master of F Che. Dimensions: 33 x 27.5 x 5 cm. Riza weight: 558.5 g.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-3500€

A rare russian silvered brass samovar in the form of a vase “Dolphin”. Makers mark of Carl Wilhelm Alexander Katsch. With engraved monogram of Baron Anatoly Delvig (1875-1936) – state councilor, manager of the Tula State Chamber, nephew of the famous Russian poet Anton Antonovich Delvig, lyceum classmate and friend of Alexander Pushkin. Petersburg, the end of the 19th century. Volume: 5 – 5.5 liters. Dimensions (H x W): 46 cm x 33 cm

Starting price: 10000€
Estimate: 12000-15000€

A Russian jasper carved bear. Petersburg or Ural. The end of the 19th century.
Dimensions: 5.7 x 10 x 3.3 cm. Total weight: 249.3 g.

Starting price: 1800€
Estimate: 2000-3000€

Original Imperial Japanese Samurai Family Mon ‘Type 19’ Company Grade ‘Kyu-Gunto’ Dress Sword. The handle of the sword with fish skin and nice blade with the waves.

In really beautiful condition and quality.

Dimensions: Total length: 92 cm. Blade length: 73 cm. Blade width: 2.7 cm.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1200€

Pair of Italian Maiolica Bottles, Each Dated 1787, Possibly Torre dei Passeri

A decorative near pair of Italian maiolica bottles of pear-shaped form with slender necks, painted in polychrome with picturesque coastal landscapes featuring villas, trees, birds, and sailing vessels. The scenes are framed by blue and ochre ornamental borders, while the necks are enriched with blue lattice cartouches.

Each bottle is inscribed 1787 to the reverse, with a further painted word below that appears to read “Torre”, although this cannot be confirmed with certainty from the present photographs. On stylistic grounds, and in view of published comparisons with late 18th-century maiolica from Torre dei Passeri, the present pair may be connected with that tradition; however, the exact place of manufacture remains unconfirmed.

Comparable late 18th-century Italian maiolica forms and dimensions are known on the auction market, supporting the present attribution in broad terms, though not proving it conclusively.

Material: maiolica / tin-glazed earthenware
Height: 28 cm and 29 cm

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3000-3500€
Hammer Price: €

A Russian oil on canvas icon of Saint Archdeacon Stefan. Embedded inscription: “Stefan Gumpel donated 1877 to the Chapel at the Lykovitsky Cemetery.” Petersburg (?), 1877. Dimensions: 87 x 51 x 2.2 cm.

Starting price: 150€
Estimate: 200-250€

A Russian silvered brass samovar in the form of a egg. Makers mark of Shemarin’s Brothers manufactory. Tula, 1880s. Height: 45cm, with the top.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1200€

Sèvres Porcelain Scent Bottles in Original Ormolu-Mounted Casket, dated 1765

Fine Louis XV period perfume or toilet casket in veneered wood with gilt-bronze mounts, fitted with two pink-ground Sèvres porcelain scent bottles painted with cherubs and floral reserves, the lid and front inset with matching porcelain plaques in rocaille mounts. The underside marks and style are consistent with Sèvres porcelain of 1765: Sèvres used the interlaced L factory mark with a date letter, and the date letter M corresponds to 1765; 18th-century Sèvres marks of this type were typically painted in blue and date letters were in obligatory use from 1753 onward.

The pink ground is commonly referred to as Rose Pompadour. From the photos, the blue underglaze interlaced mark appears consistent with Sèvres, while the impressed numerals such as 25 and 3 are likely workshop or matching marks.

Condition:
Good overall antique condition to the casket with age wear, minor rubbing, and surface wear to mounts and veneer. One bottle has cracks to the neck/rim area. General wear and minor kiln/manufacturing irregularities consistent with period porcelain.

Dimensions of casket: 19 × 28 × 14.5 cm

Notes on marks:
Interlaced L factory mark in blue: consistent with Sèvres.
Date letter M: consistent with 1765.
Impressed numerals on stoppers/base: likely factory or assembly marks.

Starting price: 2000€
Estimate: 2500-3000€
Hammer Price: €

WWII Japanese Police Superintendent Sword With Scabbard. It has a Sixteen-ray police badge on back strap at the pommel.

The sword is in a very nice condition and quality made.

Dimensions: Total length: 79.5 cm. Blade length: 63 cm. Blade width: 2 cm.

Starting price: 550€
Estimate: 600-700€

Imperial glass manufactory. Glass with the scene The Parting of Rinaldo and Armida
 Workshop of K. I. Terebenev and P. P. Semechkin. Petersburg, 1840s
Amethyst glass, faceted, with transfer-printed decoration, gilding, silver painting.
The decoration was executed using the technique of decalcomania (transfer printing), introduced in Russia in the 1830s–1840s. A lithographed image in silicate paints was transferred onto paper, then applied to the glass surface and fired, leaving the design fixed after the paper burned away.
In 1840, engravers K. I. Terebenev and P. P. Semechkin were granted a ten-year patent for the use of lithography on porcelain, faience, and glass. Their workshop specialized in combining lithographed imagery with painted gilded and silver ornament. Subjects included literary, allegorical, and landscape scenes, portraits, and reproductions of European masters.
Praised in Khudozhestvennaya Gazeta, the new method was valued for its artistic quality and its ability to reproduce works by Raphael, Correggio, and other painters on decorative objects. Dimensions: 8.2 x 7.5 cm.

Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Hammer Price: 4000€

A Faberge cast silver and lapis lazuli stone paperweight “Cupid”. Maker’s mark of K.Faberge firm. Moscow, 1908-1917.
Dimensions: 16 x 12.4 x 9.3 cm.

Starting price: 3500€
Estimate: 4000-6000€

A Russian Enamelled Copper Bowl
Usolye (Solvychegodsk), 18th century
Dimensions: 2.5 х 10 х 10 cm.

Painted in vibrant polychrome enamel with a central medallion depicting a dancing figure among tulips and foliage, the interior framed by scrolling floral ornament on a white ground. The exterior is richly decorated with floral motifs in circular reserves against a deep cobalt-blue background.

This bowl exemplifies the artistic excellence of the Usolye (Solvychegodsk) enamelling tradition of northern Russia, which flourished in the seventeenth century under the patronage of the Stroganov family. Originating from workshops established by Novgorod craftsmen in the mid-sixteenth century, the Usolye style is distinguished by its vivid palette, strong contour lines, and decorative rhythm derived from folk and wooden carving traditions.

By the second half of the seventeenth century, Usolye masters perfected the technique of painted enamel on copper, covering entire surfaces with colorful floral designs, birds, and narrative scenes. The favorite motifs included tulips, sunflowers, and whimsical figures inspired by both Russian folklore and Western engravings.

Comparable examples of Usolye enamelled wares are preserved in the State Historical Museum, Moscow, and the Armoury Chamber of the Moscow Kremlin.

Starting price: 6000€
Estimate: 8000-12000€
Hammer Price: €

Russian Imperial glasswork. Glass with the scene The Meeting of Rinaldo and the Hermit. 
Lithographic Workshop of K. I. Terebenev and P. P. Semechkin. Petersburg, 1840s
Cobalt glass with transfer-printed decoration, gilding.
Dimensions: 9 x 7.2 cm

The cup is decorated with a lithographed scene The Meeting of Rinaldo and the Hermit, an illustration to Torquato Tasso’s poem Jerusalem Delivered. The design follows a print by A. Frolov after a drawing by Barbi.
The workshop of Terebenev and Semechkin specialized in the innovative use of transfer-printing on glass, porcelain, and faience, combining lithographed imagery with gilded ornament. Literary subjects such as this were especially popular in the 1840s, reflecting contemporary taste for narrative scenes inspired by European poetry and art.
A similar example been published in O. M. Polyashova, Russian Glass of the 18th – Early 20th Century, p. 159.

Starting price: 4000€
Estimate: 5000-6000€
Hammer Price: 4000€

A rare Faberge silver and agate kovsh in the form of a turtle. Scratched inventory number: 18233. Moscow, 1898-1908.
Dimensions: 5.5 x 14.5 x 8.5 cm. Total weight: 367.6 g.

Starting price: 5000€
Estimate: 6000-8000€

Attributed to A. Orlovskiy (1777-1832). Ural cossack on patrol. Oil on canvas. 1810s. Dimensions: 52 x 45 x 1.2 cm.

Starting price: 800€
Estimate: 1000-1500€