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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 9.5″ W:4.25″ D: 3.375″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This delicate Pure Land school Guanyin in meditation sits on a remarkable, intricate and unique throne. Held up by a lotus stem in the center and surrounded by 9 lotus stems and flowers around the outside, it rests on a footed base. With fine details and faded gilt surface it creates an aura of serenity and peace.
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$525.00 Original price was: $525.00.$446.25Current price is: $446.25.
Ht: 10.75″ W: 5.5″ D: 4.5″ | FREE SHIPPING in continental u.s.!
This lacquer woodcarving is a Guanyin manifestation called “white hooded,” “white clad” or “white robed” Guanyin derived from the many paintings where she is clad in white. Although wood carvings usually portray her clothed in red, this finely carved version is covered in a lacquer coat that darkens naturally over time and darkens even more when honored on a home altar with daily prayers and offerings of smoky candles and burning incense.
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$895.00 Original price was: $895.00.$760.75Current price is: $760.75.
H: 9.5” W: 2.25” D: 6.5” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This remarkable figurine is Guanyin on her mythical mount, the Hǒu, guardian master of the universe and model for righteousness and morality who symbolizes bringing forth peace and prosperity.The round orb in its mouth representing a pearl can be rubbed for good luck. It is one of our most unique and favorite Buddhist statues, mounted on a frosted Acrylic stand.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 14.5” W: 5.5” D: 4.25” | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
Guanyin’s elegance, compassion and serenity are emphasized in this graceful antique provincial carving. Portrayed in meditation with flowing robes on a majestic three-tiered lotus throne she was designed for personal veneration in a home setting.
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$1,300.00 Original price was: $1,300.00.$1,105.00Current price is: $1,105.00.
H: 13.75” W: 7” D: 4.5” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
This delicately detailed Guanyin statue in meditation on a two-tiered backless throne has flowing braids, simple necklace, and voluminous robes indicating her regal status, while her pendulous ears, compassionate downcast eyes, serene contemplative expression, and calm smile symbolize her enlightened status. The image’s distinguishing feature is its deeply carved three-part diadem (crown) centered with a carved Amitabha Buddha on lotus throne surrounded by an aureole.
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$535.00 Original price was: $535.00.$454.75Current price is: $454.75.
Ht: 10.5” W: 5.5” D: 4” | FREE SHIPPING in continental u.s.!
Guanyin is portrayed in this gilt and lacquer carving seated on a lotus with her hands in the lap in meditation mudra atop a decorative footed stand in elegantly draped robes. In this regal form, she wears a 5-lobe crown with a cross hatch design in the center while her hair rests atop her head in a bun encircled within the crown.
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$475.00 Original price was: $475.00.$403.75Current price is: $403.75.
H: 11.625″ W: 5.325″ D: 4.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHN CONTINENTAL US!
With a full face and downcast eyes, she is depicted in modest provincial style with symbols of her bodhisattva status: a 5-lobed diadem, hair in a chignon, braids draping down her shoulders, and a flowing robe. Her pendulous ears are a sign of wisdom, her ability to hear the cries of sentient beings, and her spiritual awakening. It is covered with gilt as a sign of her enlightened status.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 8.25″ W: 4.5″ D: 3″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
The delicately carved antique Guanyin sits in dhyana (meditation) her head bent in serene peacefulness. The unusually large back cavity indicates it was consecrated by a Buddhist monk in an eye-opening ceremony and placed on a home altar. Masterful yet simple, this provincial image brings quiet energy to its surroundings and imparts a sense of serenity and peace.
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$1,450.00 Original price was: $1,450.00.$1,232.50Current price is: $1,232.50.
H: 15.5″ W: 6″ D: 5.25″ | for shipping information CALL us at 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL/COM
In this elegant and vibrant carving Guanyin sits in meditation. her beautiful, serene face elegantly carved in contemplation withbud-shaped lips softly set in a welcoming and benign sweet smile wearing a five-lobed crown. She sits on an open lotus with a vertical post at her sides; her sacred vial on her right and a parrot on the left. Antique carved i Guanyin statues with her symbols in this condition are quite wonderful and rare and impart a feeling of serenity to the environment around them.
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$1,495.00 Original price was: $1,495.00.$1,270.75Current price is: $1,270.75.
H: 33.5″ W: 33″ D: 10″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION call US AT 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
Statues like this Guanyin in the Mahayana Pure Land Buddhist tradition were especially popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties. This carving epitomizes the best of folk art spiritual traditions of provincial artisans who replaced imperial constructs with provincial depictions that combined Buddhist, Taoist and Popular Religion traditions. Humble, charming and approachable portrayals of Guanyin like this were placed in homes and temples in provincial areas.
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$1,750.00 Original price was: $1,750.00.$1,487.50Current price is: $1,487.50.
H: 21” W: 11.5” D: 8” | FOR a SHIPPING quote call us at 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
This vibrant image represents the “Heavenly Empress” Mazu wearing a red-tiered outer robe topped with a black scalloped collar bordered with gold and carved in graceful folds. Three ornamental flowers painted on her stomach might reflect the Popular Religion myth that when Mazu’s mother was pregnant, she prayed for a daughter as she already had six sons. In a dream Guanyin gave her a flower blossom to wear, and the next day Mazu was born.
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$425.00 Original price was: $425.00.$361.25Current price is: $361.25.
H: 9” W: 6.525” D: 2.5 | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This home devotional image, finely carved in the round, represents Mazu, the most revered Taoist female deity in coastal areas in mainland China, Taiwan and Vietnam. She sits in a traditional deity pose, hands covered by a ritual cloth with a space to hold a hu tablet on a plain armless high back chair. She is a provincial matronly figure, eyes calmly cast down and dressed in humble attire with characteristically small feet, a hanging red sash, and a modest hat with a flat phoenix.
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