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Galleria Antiqua Feast on history with our exclusive repertoire of antiquities and contemporary art from Greater Asia A unique space where East and West meet.

Feast on history with our exclusive repertoire of antiques and paintings from Greater Asia and beyond.

11/09/2026

The figure lost its face. But this hand may still reveal its identity.

A bracelet. A carved flask. A clue surviving roughly 1,700 years.

This Gandharan schist fragment belonged to Maitreya, the Buddha of the future. His water flask is associated with amrita, the nectar of immortality, and the possibility of salvation.

An object from the ancient past, carrying hope for an age still to come.

Watch the reel, the smallest detail tells the biggest story.

Would you have guessed what the flask represents?

02/09/2026

After more than a century in bronze, one bird remembered the sky.

The Bird That Escaped is a poetic reimagining of the songbirds captured in relief across this remarkable Japanese vase, forever suspended among flowers, leaves and winding branches.

Large Japanese Bronze Relief-Enamelled Vase
Japan, early 20th century

This substantial bronze vase features an intricately carved and enamelled tableau of flowers and songbirds. Peonies, chrysanthemums and lotus blooms wind across its dark-patinated surface alongside dimensional birds depicted in lifelike poses.

The raised relief creates a striking three-dimensional effect, while enamels in shades of red, turquoise, blue, green and yellow stand in vivid contrast against the deep black-brown bronze patina. Delicately modelled feathers, petals, leaves and branches reveal the exceptional attention given to the composition.

The vase bears a seal-form maker’s mark on its lower body.

Style: In the style of Qing
Materials and techniques: Bronze, carved and enamelled
Height: 24 in / 60.96 cm
Diameter: 19 in / 48.26 cm

An impressive example of early 20th-century Japanese metalwork, combining sculpture, colour and the natural world in one commanding statement piece.

Available for acquisition through Galleria Antiqua.
Private enquiries via direct message.

09/07/2026

Collector’s Cabinet — Episode 001

Every collector remembers the feeling.

The quiet moment before an old cabinet is unlocked.

The anticipation of lifting an object that hasn’t been handled in decades.

The first time the light catches every hammer mark, every contour, every detail left behind by the craftsman.

This silver vessel has been one of those discoveries for us.

The more we studied it, the more it revealed, classical allegorical figures, beautifully worked repoussé decoration, and a design language that points towards the German Jugendstil movement at the turn of the twentieth century.

Yet its greatest feature may be what it doesn’t reveal.

No hallmarks.

No maker’s name.

No definitive signature.

Sometimes the finest objects leave us with questions rather than answers—and that’s exactly what makes them worth collecting.

What do you think its story is?

Catalogue

German, Jugendstil Period, circa 1898–1910

A hand-worked silver vessel of elegant trumpet form, raised from thin sheet silver and decorated in repoussé and chased relief with a continuous frieze of classical female allegorical figures carrying symbolic attributes including a lyre, shield and ewer. The restrained modelling, elongated figures and clean architectural form are characteristic of the Jugendstil movement at the turn of the twentieth century.

Silver. Unmarked.

Height: 9 in. (22.9 cm) • Base Diameter: 6½ in. (16.5 cm)

03/06/2026

Before Karbala, Zuljanah was known as the loyal steed of Imam Husain (AS), a horse admired for his strength, grace, and unwavering devotion.

But it was on the plains of Karbala that his name became part of history.

The horse that returned without its rider.

In the memory of Karbala, Zuljanah is not remembered as an ordinary horse.

He is remembered as the one who carried the final traces of a heartbreaking sacrifice back to the tents.

The saddle was empty.
The reins were loose.
No words were needed.

When Zuljanah returned alone, those waiting knew that a tragedy beyond words had unfolded.

For more than thirteen hundred years, that image has remained one of the most powerful symbols of grief, loyalty, and remembrance.

This figure of Zuljanah, worked in silver with parcel-gilt detailing, transforms that memory into metal, the hand-chased coat, the gold halter, the ceremonial caparison, and the empty saddle.

Not a war horse.
A symbol of faithfulness.

Zuljanah, the horse that returned alone.

23/05/2026

This looks like a rock.

It’s a 140-year-old dream.

Carved from a single piece of Shoushan stone in late Qing China, temples, scholars, pine forests, and rivers, all hidden inside. A miniature world made to be escaped into.

How many people can you spot? 👇

18/05/2026

Before closed doors, before whispered deals, before the final decision…

There was smoke.

In the courts of kings and nobles, scent was not just luxury, it was strategy. A room could be softened, disguised, slowed down, and controlled before anyone said a word.

This pierced silver incense burner was part of that invisible theatre.

Not furniture.
Not decoration.
Atmosphere, engineered.

The kind of object that reminds us: power was not always seen.

Sometimes, it was breathed in.

Most people think they’re choosing art.They’re not.They’re choosing how a space feels…without ever realizing it.A single...
02/05/2026

Most people think they’re choosing art.

They’re not.

They’re choosing how a space feels…
without ever realizing it.

A single object can slow a room down.
Or make it tense.
Or pull everything inward.

That’s the difference between decorating
and collecting.

One fills space.
The other controls it.

So look again at what you live with

Is it just there…
or is it shaping you?

01/05/2026

Before France had a name,
Clovis had a vision.

A ruler who didn’t just unify tribes,
but reshaped identity, power, and belief across Europe.

This sculpture isn’t decoration.
It’s a moment that altered history, cast into bronze.

Objects like this don’t sit quietly.
They carry weight.

Roi Clovice — 19th Century Bronze

Serious collectors don’t buy objects.
They acquire significance.

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