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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.$375.00Current price is: $375.00.
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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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 12.5” W: 4.875” D: 3.375” | FREE SHIPPING!
Finely carved from one piece of dense hardwood, this Queen Mother of the West image sits in a traditional pose on a backless throne with a large iconic phoenix on her hat and wearing in a graceful robe with two fingers of her right-hand holding a long sleeve that covers her left hand – common in Taoist deity images. It was brightly painted as seen by her red garments under a lacquered cover that naturally darkened over time from incense and candle offerings. Her carved facial features with pursed lips depict a caring, authoritative matronly figure.
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$3,250.00 Original price was: $3,250.00.$2,762.50Current price is: $2,762.50.
H: 31.5” W: 16..5” D: 10.5” | | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING
This vibrant large antique statue is Mazu, Protectress of the Seas, reputedly the most important sea goddess of Asia. A significant Taoist deity, she is also venerated in Buddhism, Folk/Popular Religion and Confucianism. Designated the Eternal Mother and the Empress of Heaven she wears a phoenix headdress, elaborate regal robes with gilt appliqué, raised curvilinear designs, glass and mirror insets and intense hues of red, blue, green and yellow to allow those at sea needing aid to see her. She is the patron goddess of Taiwan and included in the UNESCO unintelligible cultural heritage list .
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$4,750.00 Original price was: $4,750.00.$4,037.50Current price is: $4,037.50.
H: 31.75” W: 11.25” D: 6.5” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT [email protected] or 213-568-3030
This extraordinary Guanyin originates from rural provincial less literate China. Not made in a sophisticated “imperial” style, its great charm depends on straightforward forms in bright and decorative color combinations. Her oversized crown contains a framed Amitabha Buddha. Using vibrant unusual multi-colored color combinations, an informal sitting position, simplified, almost geometric shapes for the head and facial features and bright modest robes, she reflects a humble folk art image accessible to rural devotees. Its size indicates it was carved for a large home, clan or community temple.
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$1,050.00 Original price was: $1,050.00.$892.50Current price is: $892.50.
H: 15.375” W: 8.625” D: 7.5” | FOR a SHIPPING quote CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
This Mazu, the protector of sea farers, is portrayed as the imperially sanctioned “Empress of Heaven” seated on an elaborate horseshoe shaped dragon throne, hands clasped symbolically holding a hu tablet, adorned with elegant dragon robes, an official’s girdle, a flat-topped Empress headdress and small feet resting on a pair of gilt fu lions. Meant to be seen from all sides this beautiful carving is decorated on front and back.
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$1,350.00 Original price was: $1,350.00.$1,250.00Current price is: $1,250.00.
H: 11” W: 5.75” D: 5.125” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This very rare and fine 16th century home shrine image displays the benign and compassionate countenance of Songzi Guanyin the “Bestower of Children.” With round face and joyful half-closed and eyes, she looks lovingly at the child whose arm is draped over hers.and leans slightly forward, wearing a 5- lobed crown centered with a camellia flower a Chinese symbol of young sons and daughters. The inscription on the back dates the piece to 1521-1567
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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$382.50Current price is: $382.50.
H: 11.75” W: 5.25” D: 4.75” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
In this provincial carving for private devotion on a home altar, Nanhai Guanyin sits in tranquilly in anjali mudra at her cave home on Putuo on a lotus throne set on an open lotus framed by a backdrop arch of openwork with pierced cut outs. She wears a five-lobed crown and flowing robes symbolizing her regal status in contrast to her modest robes. Few small Nanhai Guanyin figures have survived, and they are highly prized. In feng shui, Guanyin statues should be in the center of the home to bring blessings to the entire home.
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$750.00 Original price was: $750.00.$637.50Current price is: $637.50.
H: 9.5” W: 5.5″ D: 5.5″| FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This charming extremely well-modeled carving depicts a White Robed Nanhai Guanyin in her Cave on Mount Putuo seated on an open lotus in lalitsana below an arch of draped moss . Nanhai Guanyin was massively popular in the Ming/Qing dynasties when provincial wood images were made for home altars throughout China. She holds a scroll representing Buddhist teachings accompanied by a vial with the tears of humanity and a parrot, her constant companion. Small home shrine Nanhai images with all these symbols are rare.
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$5,900.00 Original price was: $5,900.00.$5,015.00Current price is: $5,015.00.
H: 34″ W: 12″ D: 15″ | Call us at 213-568-3030 for SHIPPING Quote or email us at [email protected]
Guanyin clearly dominates this majestic carving sitting in meditation. She wears an ornate high blue crown centered with an Amitabha Buddha in a deep arched border topped by flat lotus leaves. This remarkable Nanhai Guanyin is extremely rare, unique and difficult to interpret as it is so rare and unusual. We have never seen a Guanyin in her cave at Putuo surrounded by with two pairs of attendants that include her acolytes Shan Tsai and the Dragon Princess Longnu and a seated Taoist official/priest or possible the donor at the apex. This was likely commissioned by a very wealthy donor who wished to make a spiritual statement while also emphasizing his reverence and status.
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$720.00 Original price was: $720.00.$612.00Current price is: $612.00.
H: 22.25” W: 7.25 ” D: 5” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
Nanhai Guanyin sits in meditation on a pedestal framed by a large mandorla with her two acolytes (one deteriorated) with a benign expression with half-closed eyes, pursed smiling lips, pendulous ears, and a crown with an image of Buddha Amitabha. Most Buddhist carvings suffered severe damage during China’s modernization and antique Guanyin images with her attendants are very rare.
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