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  • Antique Porcelain Ewer Quatrefoil Panels, China (18036QAS) $235

    Antique Porcelain Ewer Quatrefoil Panels, China (18036QAS) $235

    $235.00
    H: 4.875″ W: 4.5″ D: 3.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONINENTAL U.S.

    This elegantly shaped and beautiful high-fired antique porcelain ewer was decorated on its outside with a saffron-colored glaze called a coral red glaze. The sides have a white glazed quatrefoil panel with hand-painted multi-colored floral designs on a white background within a gold frame interspersed among sinuous gold leaf vines across the body and neck and a white glaze covers the inside and bottom. Its beauty is enhanced with its graceful spout, colorful white and gold panel beautiful.

  • Antique Porcelain Spouted Jar with Lugs, China (1106WHE) $135

    Antique Porcelain Spouted Jar with Lugs, China (1106WHE) $135

    $135.00
    H: 5”  W: 5.25”  D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING!

    Utilitarian ceramics like this were used in home kitchens and restaurants to hold oil, sauces, soy or other liquids. This spouted blue and white porcelain jar has four loops, also called lugs, so a natural fiber such as rattan could be threaded to either secure a top create a way to hang it to a peg. Sealing the top was very useful if the jars contained liquid and needed to be transported. The piece is decorated in a free and expressive manner with a charming impression of a country scene of a building in a landscape surrounded by tall trees. The cobalt is thick and dark in some areas of the foliage and applied with a thin, sparing and light brush elsewhere.

  • Sale! Antique Rare Carving of a Huntsman with Rifle, China 16743WHK

    Antique Rare Carving of a Huntsman with Rifle, China 16743WHK

    Original price was: $315.00.Current price is: $275.00.
    H: 9 ”    W:  3.625″    D: 3.5 ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This ancestor figure of a huntsman in the round is unique, standing on a  domed pedestal, facing half right holding a flint lock, wearing a hunting coat, a two-level hat,  traditional under- and outer-garment, and thick boots. As the noted scholar on Chinese wood carvings stated, a similar figure like this “unusual and extraordinary ancestral image of a huntsman with a flintlock gun, was the only ancestral image in his vast collection which “depicts the calling of the deceased.”

  • Antique Red Porcelain Bowl w/ High Foot, China (18043WAR) $125

    Antique Red Porcelain Bowl w/ High Foot, China (18043WAR) $125

    $125.00
    H: 2.5”  Dia: 5.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This simple, elegant beautifully shaped footed porcelain bowl is thinly crafted with a monotone coral saffron glaze on the outside and a grayish-white glaze on the inside. It has a rather high and deep foot and the bottom has a fading red stamped seal of an unknown kiln. It is in excellent condition and some minor pitting inside the bowl caused by gases escaping from the clay body during the firing cycle. Likely from the Togzhi Period 1862-1874.

  • Antique Repoussé  Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    Antique Repoussé Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    $595.00

    This Tibetan Repoussé image presents various symbols of the Enlightenment of the Shakyamuni-Buddha. He sits within a trefoil arch on a lotus base  (padmapitha) under the bodhi tree in bhumisparsha mudra (earth witnessing or hand touching position) symbolizing the moment of his enlightenment legs bent in (padmasana). The detailed trefoil arch surrounding the Buddha’s head…

  • Sale! Antique Repoussé Vishnu Votive Plaque, H: 7.5" India (5174A)

    Antique Repoussé Vishnu Votive Plaque, H: 7.5″ India (5174A)

    Original price was: $250.00.Current price is: $165.00.
    H: 7.5″  W: 5.75  D: 2.5″     |     FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Copper alloy repoussé votive plaque of Vishnu surrounded with head and body aureoles. Symbols of his power as Universe’s Protector include a conch shell, his crown and lotus leaves symbolizing purity, truth, and unfolding of creation.

  • Sale! Antique Sawankhalok Lidded Bowl, Fruit Stem Handle, Thailand #3170

    Antique Sawankhalok Lidded Bowl, Fruit Stem Handle, Thailand #3170

    Original price was: $385.00.Current price is: $325.00.
    Ht: 3.375” Dia: 4.625”     |    FREE SHIPPING within continental U.S.

    Sawankhalok elegant mangosteen shape stoneware lidded bowl with raised calyx, cream and brown glazes, incised floral and geometric designs to store spices, cosmetics, betel nuts and medicine.

  • Sale! Antique Seated Ancestor Official, China #16289BME

    Antique Seated Ancestor Official, China #16289BME

    Original price was: $650.00.Current price is: $325.00.
    H: 7.25” W: 4.625” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Finely carved ancestor displaying status symbols: official’s attire and hat,  horseshoe chair with feet on pedestal  Masterfully carved and lacquered and is painted on front and back in red  with traces of gilt – all propitious colors of “fu” as a wish for wealth, health, good fortune, long life and long life – that has faded over it years of use into a great patina.

  • Sale! Antique Senufo Manilla Currency/Slave Trade Bracelet, West Africa (3143)

    Antique Senufo Manilla Currency/Slave Trade Bracelet, West Africa (3143)

    Original price was: $295.00.Current price is: $210.00.
    H: 3.125”  W: 4”  Thick: 1.125.5” Circum: 9.5” |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This very elaborate and exquisite C-shaped Senufo heavy manilla  is ornately embellished and divided into sections, each decorated with deeply carved  panels and framed with pairs of raised ball-like metal pieces. This remarkable and elegant manilla has a fine patina that shows its age, long use, and wear. It comes with a wood and metal stand.

  • Sale! Antique Senufo Manilla Currency/Slave Trade Bracelet, West Africa (3144)

    Antique Senufo Manilla Currency/Slave Trade Bracelet, West Africa (3144)

    Original price was: $185.00.Current price is: $135.00.
    H: 2.75”  W: 3.625”  Thick: 1” Circum. 9.375” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL u.s.

    This antique intricate Senufo copper alloy manilla bracelet is decorated with incised parallel ridges covering its 3-sections which have sets of raised bosses and flattened discs at each end. Very heavy bracelets like this were not worn but were were used to store wealth, make purchases, buy or trade for livestock and goods, or as a bridal dowry or for ceremonial purposes such as weddings and burials. In excellent condition with a fine patina and the usual signs of age and use, it also has a wood and metal stand.

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  • Sale! Antique Shiwan Offering Bowl, Peaches and Lotuses, Shiwan, China  #19330

    Antique Shiwan Offering Bowl, Peaches and Lotuses, Shiwan, China #19330

    Original price was: $450.00.Current price is: $295.00.
    Ht: 5.5”  Dia: 6” |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Shiwan stoneware fruit offerings were placed on the altar during the Ming to substitute for or augment fresh offerings. The three peaches and lotuses on a footed bowl are auspicious Chinese symbols associated with springtime, fertility and a long healthy life for many generations.

  • Sale! Antique Small Guanyin on a Radiating Lotus, China (16534)

    Antique Small Guanyin on a Radiating Lotus, China (16534)

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 8.675″  Dia: 4.5″   |   Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Delicate White Robed Guanyin in meditation on radiating lotus throne. Provincial humble, modest, relatable, yet beautiful matronly figure.

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