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![3 5301 chinese woman w child copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/3-5301-chinese-woman-w-child-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$2,250.00 Original price was: $2,250.00.$1,700.00Current price is: $1,700.00.
Ht: 26” W: 10.25” D: 7.5″ |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING COST
This rare, sensitive and beautifully carved image probably depicts Guanyin the Bodhisattva of Compassion holding a young child’s hand glancing down with compassion and tenderness while he looks up for assurance and protection. This unique provincial Popular Religion carving depicts her as humble, engaging and modestly clad with a serene softness. It is similar to but different from Songzi Guanyin, the “Child-Giving Guanyin” to whom couples pray to become fertile and to bear a son.
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![6 17005WLREM Godess kids copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/6-17005WLREM-Godess-kids-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$6,900.00 Original price was: $6,900.00.$5,900.00Current price is: $5,900.00.
H: 43″ W: 15″ D 9.75″ | CALL US AT 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING cost
This large exceptionally impressive carving is the Taoist fertility goddess Niangniang, “The Maiden Who Brings Children” often portrayed similar to Songzi Guanyin. Created by a provincial artisan, she is charming, humble, has beautiful features is portrayed with three diminutive children and is represented as an empress figure in Taoist attire. This is a rare and truly magnificent carving.
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![3 5275 Fem Pup Hd](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/3-5275-Fem-Pup-Hd--300x300.jpg)
$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$225.00Current price is: $225.00.
H: 8.5″ W: 4″ D: 2.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Antique Chinese puppets were often made in several parts with removable heads. This antique carved head of a beauty has delicately painted features and an animal hair braided down the back. Since there is an area without hair towards the back, she likely originally wore a hat or headdress. A hole on top probably accommodated strings.
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![6 16910 GY Dark Luc copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/6-16910-GY-Dark-Luc-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$525.00 Original price was: $525.00.$425.00Current price is: $425.00.
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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![16370 1a GY on Hou](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/16370-1a-GY-on-Hou-scaled-300x300.jpg)
$895.00 Original price was: $895.00.$675.00Current price is: $675.00.
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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![2a 16536b](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/2a-16536b-300x300.png)
$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$620.00Current price is: $620.00.
H: 14.5” W: 5.5” D: 4.25” | FREE SHIPPING
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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![3 16467 copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/3-16467-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$535.00 Original price was: $535.00.$430.00Current price is: $430.00.
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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![4 16837 GY stand copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/4-16837-GY-stand-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$1,495.00 Original price was: $1,495.00.$1,450.00Current price is: $1,450.00.
H: 33.5″ W: 33″ D: 10″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
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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![2 19433 Mini Altar Det L PANEL rats fruit copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/2-19433-Mini-Altar-Det-L-PANEL-rats-fruit-copy-2-300x309.jpg)
$585.00 Original price was: $585.00.$485.00Current price is: $485.00.
H: 9” W: 18.5” D: 5.875” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
As a wish for a prosperous and healthy family with many sons, this small table elegant probably was in a young couple’s bedroom to hold small personal statues and store precious items. Guanyin sits a hǒu holding lotuses in the right panel and the left has fertility symbols rats with melons. It. is perfect for creating a personal home altar and a unique wedding gift.
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![8 16805 Kitch God Goddess copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/8-16805-Kitch-God-Goddess-copy-2-300x368.jpg)
$695.00
H: 7.25″ W: 3″ D: 1.625″ | FREE SHIPPING!
This Kitchen God and his wife are mirror-images, originally placed above the stove to monitor and bring good luck to the household. Finely carved, they wearing simplified officials robes and symbolically hold a tablet. Their bright colors have faded naturally into a smooth warm patina which adds comfort and positive feng sui to any kitchen decor and are unique wedding gifts.
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![6 16840 Kit God Wif hu copy](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/6-16840-Kit-God-Wif-hu-copy-300x369.jpg)
$850.00 Original price was: $850.00.$650.00Current price is: $650.00.
H: 7.5″ W: 2.875″ D: 2″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This pair is VA’s most unique and finely crafted Kitchen God couple. Wearing beautifully carved robes, clasping Hu tablets, they have approachable features and subtly smiling lips. The painted character on the base is a wish for “happiness.” These exceptional consecrated pieces are in excellent condition with a fine patina.
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![10 16850H House Gods FRONT R copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/10-16850H-House-Gods-FRONT-R-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$785.00
H: 7.75″ W: 3.25″ D: 2.375″ | free shipping within Continental U.S.1
Finely detailed and carved from dense wood, this Kitchen God and his Wife monitor the members of the home from their perch above the stove. Near mirror images of each other they wear layered gold officials’ robes with decorative sashes and symbolically hold a hu tablet. They are in excellent condition with most of the original pigmentation and gilt and make unique wedding gifts..
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