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    Rare Antique Three-Faced Tantric Bodhisattva, China #16200

    Original price was: $4,200.00.Current price is: $3,400.00.
    H: 29.5″  W:     D:    |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    This rare antique carving is in typical Tantric style with 6 arms and 3 faces, 1 facing front and 2 at the rear. She hold discs of the Sun and Moon, hands in anjali, the mudra of prayer and ones in vitarka-mudra, the teaching gesture.  Multi-heads and arms symbolize the ability to save many living beings at one time.

     

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  • SOLD Antique Carved Guanyin on Lotus Pedestal, China (16206B-WACK)

    $1,375.00
    SOLD  H: 23.25″  W: 9.25″  D: 6.25″

    This Guanyin image was probably one of a pair of images along with the Taoist Queen Mother of the West (16206A-WACK) placed together on a community, local temple or home altar.  Created by the same local artisan, they are provincial rather than imperial style having a humble, unadorned and simple rendering, seated on backless thrones, hands covered by a ritual cloth, uncharacteristic of Guanyin but common for Taoist goddesses. Both wear layered robes and a high pointed crown – the Queen Mother’s centered by a phoenix and Guanyin’s by a flower surrounded by symbolic aureole of radiating light. Both have soft blissful smiles with eyes cast slightly downwards to engage their devotees. Initially covered in bright polychrome colors, there are traces of surviving red, yellow, green, brown and black.

  • SOLD Antique Ming/Qing Wood Shakyamuni Buddha in Meditation, China (16089BMEM)

    $3,900.00
    H: 14”  W: 9.375”  D: 7.25” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030

    This fine rare Ming/Qing carving depicts Shakyamuni Buddha in meditation is made from fine dense wood with much of its iridescent pigmentation. He is masterfully carved with a serene, benevolent and pensive expression wearing plain but elegantly carved monks robes. This spiritual piece is a small yet very powerful image.

  • SOLD Antique Queen Mother of the West on Raised Pedestal, China (16206A-WACK)

    $1,375.00
    SOLD  |  H: 23.25″  W: 9.25″  D: 6.5″

    This Queen Mother of the West, the highest ranking female Taoist deity was probably displayed as a pair along a statue of Guanyin, the most significant Buddhism female (Guanyin on a Lotus Pedestal (16206B) highlighting the importance and similarity of these revered female images  Like the Guanyin, the Queen Mother’s delicately carved face has half closed eyes, serene composure mouth with a hint of a smile, which is more Buddhist than Taoist. Her headdress, centered by her iconic phoenix, rests under a hood extending to her shoulders and back. She wears a high collared three-layered Taoist robe, her hands covered by a ritual cloth.

  • SOLD Antique/Vintage Hammered Iron Gong on Stand, Democratic Republic of the Congo (3893BKR) $395

    $395.00
    H: 21″  W: 8″ D: 4.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030

    This traditional African hammered iron gong is elegantly shaped like a flaring bell. Heat riveted, a forging process joining two metal pieces together, it was made by Congolese tribal people. Made with 5 parallel lines of 5 decorative round bulges on both sides, it was often held using a raffia handle and beaten using sticks covered with rubber at its end. Originally a ritual instrument, they were also beaten to call members of special restricted societies to meetings and were a symbol of wealth, prestige, and influence.

  • SOLD! Antique Nanhai Guanyin of the South Sea Holding a Scroll, China 16420LKE

    $1,550.00

    This outstanding delicately antique carving is Nanhai Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, seated on a rocky outcrop covered with a cloth, a reference to her home in a cave on the island of Putuo in the South China Sea. Other than the Buddha, she is the most revered deity in Mahayana Buddhism and one of…

  • Vintage Ancestor Mask, East Timor, Featured in 1st Spiderman Movie (1203BKM) SPECIAL PRICE

    $1,750.00

    This rare, vintage spirit mask is from Timor in Indonesia. Their animism is characterized by ritual exchanges between individuals or social groups with ancestral and fertility spirits having a close reciprocal link between the deceased and the secular world as ancestors require sustenance, respect and attention (i.e. offerings), while humans seek advice, good fortune, health…

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  • Vintage Brass Buddha with Aureole, Nepal (30611LEM) $790

    $790.00

    This finely cast metalwork brass Shakyamuni Buddha reflects the conservative tradition of Nepalese sculpture which experienced few changes in proportion or decorative details over the past several hundred years. Originating stylistically from Gupta and later Pala Indian art, Nepalese artists created their unique style from the 6th-7th centuries that evolved to a distinctive physiognomy including…

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    Vintage Bronze Guanyin in Meditation, Thailand #11250BKE

    Original price was: $485.00.Current price is: $350.00.
    H: 19.5”  W: 9.375”  D: 9” | CALL 213-568-3030 or email [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    This lovely vintage 20th century Thai bronze statue is the White Clad Guanyin seated in meditation on a multi-tiered throne holding her vial of precious dew.  Her open hood is centered by a mandorla surrounding an image of Buddha Amitabha, the Buddha of Infinite Light. This one of a kind piece is a vision of compassionate serenity with her half closed eyes and benevolent smile.

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  • Vintage Carving of a Brahmana, Museum Quality Stand, Bali (1267BEM) SPECIAL PRICE

    $675.00
    Ht: 15.5”  W: 8”  D: 5”     |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    This charming Balinese mask is a traditional female Dayu, an ethnic Balinese high-caste Hindu Brahman Woman. This beautiful carving is too large to be a traditional dance mask , it is a beautiful decorative piece. Presented as a charming and beautiful woman from the top Hindu caste, she has delicate, detailed and sensitive features, that are superbly and subtlety carved. It is  presented on a museum quality metal stand.

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  • Vintage Dayak Ancestor Mask (Hudoq), Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) (1200TSK) SPECIAL PRICE

    $485.00

    The culture, rituals, tribal and ethnic art of the Dayak (Dyak) of Kalimantan (Borneo), Indonesia is a mix of shamanism, animism and ancestor worship. Dyak festival masks worn on the face or large ones attached to a costume repel malicious spirits from entering communal spaces, insure village safety, protect babies in their carriers and defend…

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  • Vintage Dayak Hudoq Ancestor Mask Featured in Spiderman Movie, Kalimantan (1314ESA) SPECIAL PRICE

    $1,050.00
    H: 23.375” W: 13  W: 6” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or [email protected]

    This vintage hudoq Dayak ancestor mask has traditional Dayak features: wing-like separately carved ears attached with rattan that, like this, usually is replaced; long extended triangle nose, rounded arabesque-like ears and eye-holes, gnarled teeth, and geometric and curvilinear painted decorations. This one of three VA masks featured in collection of the Green Goblin in the 2002 Spiderman movie and is set on a museum-quality metal stand.

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