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$850.00 Original price was: $850.00.$722.50Current price is: $722.50.
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 of each is a wish for “happiness.” These exceptional consecrated and rare pieces are in excellent condition with a fine patina. Kitchen Gods radiate warmth, especially when placed near the stove and are unique house warming or wedding gifts and add positive chi and enhance feng-shui in any home.
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$185.00 Original price was: $185.00.$157.25Current price is: $157.25.
H: 7.125″ W: 8.375″ D: 3.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This Shiwan green chopsticks holder is divided into two parts with holes on top for hanging and small holes on the bottom for drainage. Chopsticks were often wedding gifts from mothers to daughters with many auspicious wishes: phrases for sons as soon as possible, upside down bats with coins and ribbon meaning “blessings in front of your eyes,” and border clouds and thunder symbolizing life-giving rain and abundance.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 7.25″ W: 3″ D: 1.625″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
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. On Chinese New Year Zao Shen ascends to the heavens to report to the Jade Emperor about the household’s morality: a favorable report brings blessings, fortune and continued life, and a poor one brings misfortune. Sometimes families smear honey on their lips to assure a favorable report. 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 and housewarming gifts.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 7.75″ W: 2.875″ D: 1.875″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This Kitchen God and His Wife are well-carved, articulated, well presented. As mirror images sitting on backless chairs on a high plinth, they have similar layered gold officials’ robes and very different headdresses. Their clasped hands covered in ritual cloth symbolizes holding a hu tablet, they portray the reverence and solemnity associated with house gods whose future of families are in their hands. Antique Kitchen gods are unique and wonderful house or wedding gifts as they add warmth to positive chi to any decor.
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$505.75Current price is: $505.75.
H: 4.25″ W: 2″ D: 0.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, small fu lion pairs were popular indoor and out door accessories. As protectors of Buddhism, fu lions are both menacing and friendly and this remarkably fanciful pair of crouching beasts joyously reflects both traits, with floppy ears, smiling open mouthed faces with tongues hanging out, and curled tails versus bushy eyebrows, bulging eyes and long pointed nails. Originally decorations on furniture with flat rear sides, they can stand alone as decorative accessories or even be a great pair of bookends. However they are used, they are guaranteed to bring a smile to those who are fortunate to see them on a regular basis.
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$1,350.00 Original price was: $1,350.00.$1,147.50Current price is: $1,147.50.
H: 23.25″ W: 31.75″ D: 9″ | call for shipping 323-568-3030
This serene and meditational figure represents a Mahayana Buddhist monk on a backless chair, right leg crossed and right hand palms out in a sign of blessing. With his gentle features – eyes half-closed looking down and his mouth set in a slight sweet smile, enlarged ear lobes of an enlightened being – and softly flowing robe he brings a peaceful and meditative spirt to any space. Made to be viewed in the round It mounted on a custom black wood stand.
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$145.00 Original price was: $145.00.$123.25Current price is: $123.25.
This charming antique white glazed porcelain figurine is a cat teapot with a raised paw with removable head for pouring liquid into the vessel and long sinuous tail as a handle to pour liquid from the opening at the end of the paw. The hand painted design is whimsical and colorful with a thin ribbon-like blue collar and a dangling ornamental bow with black accents defining the face, ears, head and paws.
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$195.00 Original price was: $195.00.$165.75Current price is: $165.75.
H: 4.5″ Dia: 3.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This hand carved antique stone flu lion is a fun loving benevolent creature as seen in his open mouth with sharp teeth in a fanciful grin with a curled tongue, mischievously twinkling eyes under bushy eyebrows and a compressed rotund body with a very small tail. This is not your refined portrait of an elegant protective beast, it’s just a friendly pet hanging out . He probably lived in the garden of a provincial fun-loving family and is looking for a similar environment where people like old wonderful pieces to remind them not to take themselves too seriously.
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$285.00 Original price was: $285.00.$242.25Current price is: $242.25.
H: 8.25” W: 6.75” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Wall pockets remain a very common decorative element in Asian homes. In China, they are used to hold chopsticks and flowers to bring good fortune to a space where the family gathers. This Shiwan stoneware pocket has 2 very auspicious symbols: a frog and a lotus that symbolize nurturing energy and transformation. With a hole in the back for hanging on a wall, it is great addition to enhance a kitchen’s coziness and feng shui and a wonderful wedding gift.
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$115.00 Original price was: $115.00.$97.75Current price is: $97.75.
H: 7.375″ W: 5.125″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Decorative utilitarian Shiwan ware pieces are recognized for their fine modeling, vivid expression, and colorful apple-green and drip glazes. Chopsticks were commonly stored in wall pockets with a hole for mounting. Covered with auspicious symbols, they were often part of a bride’s dowry as “chopsticks” is a pun for “speedy arrival of sons.” It can hold utensils, dried flowers, and other objects and is a unique wedding gift.
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$115.00 Original price was: $115.00.$97.75Current price is: $97.75.
H: 7.375″ W: 5.125″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Decorative utilitarian Shiwan ware pieces are recognized for their fine modeling, vivid expression, and colorful apple-green and drip glazes. Chopsticks were commonly stored in wall pockets with a hole for mounting. Covered with auspicious symbols, they were often part of a bride’s dowry as “chopsticks” is a pun for “speedy arrival of sons.” It can hold utensils, dried flowers, and other objects and is a unique wedding gift.
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$995.00 Original price was: $995.00.$845.75Current price is: $845.75.
H: 10” W: 7.75” D: 8.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This single statue portrays the Kitchen God and his Wife on one stand which is rare and indicates their close and lasting relationship as the protectors of the home and family. The Kitchen God and his wife were placed above the stove, a central part of the household to view and report about the morality of the family members to the Jade Emperor at Chinese New Year and have their fate determined for the coming year. His serene face has an uncharacteristic smile. Their bright colors have faded naturally into a smooth warm patina which adds comfort and positive feng sui to any kitchen decor.
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