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$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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$385.00 Original price was: $385.00.$327.25Current price is: $327.25.
H: 8.5″ W: 15″ D:5″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This vibrant jewelry box containing 5 drawers with teardrop pulls is decorated with familiar auspicious symbols to bring blessings and good luck to its female owner. Red, the color of fu symbolizes blessings for a virtuous and blissful life; the young women on the doors holding lotus stems symbolize beauty and purity; and the 5 bats around a longevity character on the top mean “May you have a harmonious marriage with the Five Blessings.” With its propitious meanings, this charming box was probably a bride’s wedding gift that would still be appropriate today.
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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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$785.00 Original price was: $785.00.$667.25Current price is: $667.25.
H: 7.75″ W: 3.25″ D: 2.375″ | free shipping within Continental U.S.!
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. On Chinese New Year Zao Shen reports to the Jade Emperor in Heaven and a positive report bringsblessings and good fortune, while and unfavorable one brings misfortune. Family members often smear honey on his mouth to sweeten the report. Near mirror images they wear layered gold officials’ robes with decorative sashes and symbolically hold a hu tablet. They are in excellent condition and add positive chi and enhance feng shui. Kitchen Gods especially pairs are now rare and very collectible and make unique wedding and house gifts.
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$595.00
H: 16.375″ W: 13.625″ D: 5.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or [email protected]
This intricately carved black and heavily gilt antique cabinet is a fine example of a Straits Chinese furniture made in Guangdong for the Southeast Asia market. Carved openwork panels with phoenixes and lotuses are symbolic wishes for harmony, blessings, rank, good fortune; outstretched wings wish for harmonious marriage, many sons and the inside decoration a wish for status and successful career. Although flamboyant for todays taste, it is a unique accent piece and gift for newly weds.
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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$382.50Current price is: $382.50.
H: 22″ W: 21.5″ D: 12.25″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This elm storage cabinet has lacquered and painted door panels with auspicious paintings of birds, foliage, and florals. One door panel has a magpie on a plum tree and the other has a tree with a chrysanthemum below – together they are wishes for double happiness, the birth of sons, and longevity.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
Ht: 20.75” W: 19.125” D: 11” |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This very fine ladies vanity cabinet is covered with red lacquer, the color of blessings (fu), highlighted with gold and deeply carved and painted decorations of auspicious symbols to bring happiness, good fortune, long life and many sons to the elite couple who may have received it as a wedding gift by parents in hopes of them successfully carrying on the family tradition. This is a reflection of the Confucian belief having sons to carry on the family name is essential to real happiness.
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$245.00 Original price was: $245.00.$175.00Current price is: $175.00.
H: 5″ W: 3.25″ D:3.875″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This brass oil lamp diya is decorated with an image on front and back of Lakshmi seated on a lotus, full-breasted and broad hipped, beneficently smiling and being lustrated (showered by water) by elephants, symbolizing rain clouds bringing water and life to the land and that unwavering effort to adhere to spiritual teachings and governed by wisdom and purity leads to both material and spiritual prosperity.
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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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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$375.00Current price is: $375.00.
H: 5.5″ Dia: 6″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Shiwan stoneware fruit offerings were especially popular during the Ming and Qing dynasties when they were placed on temple or home altars to communicate and venerate ancestors, augment fresh offerings and bring auspicious blessings of fu to families presenting them. The three peaches interwoven with lotuses are associated with springtime, fertility, and especially a long healthy life for many generations. They are considered propitious gifts for birthdays, especially for the elderly.
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$115.00 Original price was: $115.00.$97.75Current price is: $97.75.
H: 6.75″ W: 4.875″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Decorative every day Shiwan ware pieces are recognized for their fine craftsmanship, vivid expression, and colorful apple-green and drip glazes. Shiwan potters mixed waste materials with local and inexpensive clay – one of the earliest artistic forms of recycling. Shiwan chopsticks holders are unique kitchen accessories, especially as wedding gifts.
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