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Vintage Nepali brass Buddha in teaching mudra standing on pedestal with 2 Buddhist lions, wearing “wet style” close fitting monk’s robes covering idealized body under drapery. Removable full body aureole with foliate designs.
Vintage Thai cast bronze White Clad Guanyin in meditation on multi-tiered throne holding vial of precious dew with image of Buddha Amitabha under hood. Vision of compassionate serenity, half closed eyes and benevolent smile.
Vintage wooden structural post Nigerian Yoruba warrior statue with a scale-pattern torso armor, elongated helmet, strong frontal posture and prominent expressive facial features symbolizing a warrior’s powers. Mounted on a black metal base.
Dayu mask of Balinese high-caste female Hindu Brahman, beautiful decorative piece on a museum quality metal stand.
Vintage animistic Dayak ancestor mask for agricultural festivals, separate wing-like decoratively painted ears, long nose, gnarled teeth, featured in Green Goblin’s collection in 2002 Spiderman movie.
In Dayak tradition, this vintage authentic hudoq mask has a white face paint around the eyes and forehead.and carved outlines with traditional upward curling moustache arabesques. Mounted on a museum quality metal stand.
Authentic vintage mask of a king (topeng dalem) carved in the Balinese community on Lombok Island. Honoring historical kings, it was also an offering to please the gods. It exhibits the king’s qualities: a refined, cultured, idealized, model leader. Mounted on museum quality stand.
Given its size this smaller early 20th century Hsun-ok with simple sophisticated designs of with parallel rows of intricate triangular and beaded borders may been placed as decorative piece on a home altar.
This “crown” called a “house of the head” was made to show gratitude for the power of heads that reflect Yoruba ideas of individuality and authority. Crowns like this were placed on altars for prayer and divination and were a symbol of a Yoruba deity. This headdress was in the San Francisco International Airport, “Crowning Achievements” exhibition April-August, 1994.
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