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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 30″ W: 29.5″ D: 2.125″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Striking colorful Indian beaded tapestries (torans) like this are placed in home doorways and thresholds and symbolize warmth, positivity, and protection. Especially popular in Gujrat they are used to attract Hindu goddess Lakshmi to bless the family and bring prosperity, fertility and birth of children. It is embellished with symbols that attract good spirits and ward off evil ones – a monkey, horse, peacocks and the Tree of Life.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 7.5” W: 5” D: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This finely carved vintage jauk mask is the manis (sweet, softer) version of a jauk mask. It and the dance present the gentle traits of a giant having more normal human features and a smile, and its white color is usually symbolic of purity. Those colored red or orange represent one easy to anger. Collected in the 1970s in Lombok, this mask is rare as then Lombok the Balinese community usually did not sell their masks. It has a fine aged patina with expected hairline cracks and frayed eyebrows consistent with its age and use.
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$110.00 Original price was: $110.00.$0.00Current price is: $0.00.
H: 7.625″ W: 6.125″ D: 3.375″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
Most jauk keras (strong, scary) masks of a giant are often red or orange to reinforce a volatile dance with jerky movements. This jauk manis (good, sweet) mask dance is a more controlled, regulated and enacted with more calm and human movements. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it is in excellent condition with expected minor scratches and paint losses.
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$425.00 Original price was: $425.00.$361.25Current price is: $361.25.
Ht: 14.5” W: 3.5” D: 2.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S!
This rare vintage carving was probably made for a home shrine or small rice field temple dedicated to Dewi Sri, the Balinese Goddess of Rice. The hole near the bottom indicates it may have been part of a larger decorative scheme.
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$105.00 Original price was: $105.00.$89.00Current price is: $89.00.
H: 8.125″ W: 6″ D: 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPINGwithin continental u.s.!
Dalem is an idealized and refined mask (topeng, tapel) of a model Hindu King from Bali and is usually white symbolizing purity. The mask and dance present actions, postures and gestures validating the traits of a good king: grace, poise, dignity and refinement. This piece is well carved, balanced and in fine proportion, and the crown and the animal hide and hair eyebrows and mustache are well integrated in portraying the king’s confidence. It is in very good condition with a wash applied as a the mask to make it look older. It was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s.
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$265.00 Original price was: $265.00.$225.25Current price is: $225.25.
H: 14.5″ W: 6.625″ D: 2.375″ | FREE SHIPPING
This very fine and very beautiful vintage woodcarving of Dewi Sri , Devi Sri or Sridevi in Java, the Balinese Hindu goddess of rice and prosperity, is in excellent condition considering it is a much used vintage piece. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it reflects the offerings made to Dewi Sri placed in the rice fields to protect the rice harvest. She is depicted here as a young, attractive and fertile woman wearing a striking, highly detailed and decorative headdress similar to those worn in Balinese dances leaving her upper forehead bare and framing her oval face with high curved eyebrows, wide-open eyes and beautiful pursed lips. With its flat back it can be mounted on a wall.
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$125.00 Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.
Ht: 8.5” W: 6.51” D: 4.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This traditional Patih (minister) Keras (hard, strong, forceful) Balinese mask is deeply carved, and his huge red lips symbolize a tough, intense, easy to anger but powerful man in a position of prestige. Exaggerated facial elements of large bulging eyes, a powerful stare, huge, bright red lips and a thick animal hair/hide mustache indicate his internal strength as a trusted minister carrying out his king’s wishes. This mask was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s and is in excellent condition with minor scratches and losses consistent with age.
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$105.00 Original price was: $105.00.$89.25Current price is: $89.25.
H: 8.5″ W: 3″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
Topeng Dalem is a mask of an idealized, refined and upright model of a historical Hindu King and is usually a white mask, the color of purity. The dance presents actions and gestures validating the traits of a good king: grace, poise, dignity and refinement. This piece is well carved, balanced, in fine proportion and the crown, the triangular third eye and the animal hide and hair eyebrows and mustache are well integrated as is the mask’s pleasant smile. It is in very good condition with a wash applied as a patina to make the mask look older. It was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s.
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$125.00 Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.
H: 7.75” W: 5.5” D: 3” | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This mask is patih keras, a strong king’s prime minister in orange symbolizing a tough, intense and powerful person reinforced by his large bulging eyes, powerful stare, red lips and full black moustache. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, this beautifully carved mask is in excellent condition with a wash applied on the back to make it look older.
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$125.00 Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.
H: 7.125” W: 5.875” D: 3” | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This fine, deeply carved and painted Balinese mask is the king’s strong prime minister (patih keras), a position of prestige usually filled by warriors of the second Hindu (ksatrya) caste. The large bulging eyes increase the power of his stare and the outsized thick bright red lips symbolize his intensity. This mask was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s and is in excellent condition with minor hair loss on the eyebrows.
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$125.00 Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.
H: 7.5” W: 6” D: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING!
This fine vintage historical ethnic Balinese mask is Kebo Taruna. the powerful Balinese minister (patih) feared by Gaja Mada the brilliant Javanese “Elephant General” who brought the Indonesian Hindu Majapahit Empire to its peak and conquered Bali in 1343. His peculiar half-smile, forceful eyes and angular nose are carved to complement his intense expression, make it look more forceful and add energy to the mask. These features describe the minister’s power and confidence. Finely carved and embellished with animal hide and hair for his mustache and eyebrows, this mask is in excellent condition.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 6.375” W: 4.875” D: 2.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This traditional but unusually small mask (topeng) of Rangda was a rare toy or was used to teach children Balinese lore and religious and artistic expression. It has wonderfully carved upper fangs, bulging eyes and protruding teeth and, as a personification of evil Rangda, who leads an evil army that instills anxiety and fear.
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