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$585.00 Original price was: $585.00.$497.25Current price is: $497.25.
H: 9” W: 18.5” D: 5.875” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
As a wish for a prosperous and healthy family with many sons, this small table elegant probably was in a young couple’s bedroom to hold small personal statues and store precious items. Guanyin sits a hǒu holding lotuses in the right panel and the left has fertility symbols rats with melons. It is perfect for creating a personal home altar and a unique wedding gift.
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$2,350.00 Original price was: $2,350.00.$1,997.50Current price is: $1,997.50.
H: 17.5″ W: 14.875″ D: 1.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This vibrant antique icon of Virgin Mary of the The Three Hands is a traditional Eastern Orthodox image of the Mother of God with the infant Christ seated on her right arm and one underneath supporting him and her left raised and pointing to him. Her three hands confirm her special healing powers based on the legend of Saint John of Damascus. She is bordered on each side of the frame by saints. Russian icons are regarded as the Gospel in paint and are typically small paintings on wood panels using tempera and often ornate gold leaf. Panel cross members or “back slats” were used in pre-1890 Russian icons like this one.
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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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$2,575.00 Original price was: $2,575.00.$2,188.75Current price is: $2,188.75.
H: 25.5” W: 9.75” D: 5” | CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING quote or email [email protected]
This elegant Jambupati Buddha is seated in lavish gilt court attire in Earth Witnessing mudra, one hand in his lap and one reaching over to touch the earth. Dazzling gilt covers his body, elaborate crown with butterfly flanges and his kingly garment that is “bejeweled” with multi- colored cut glass inset pieces. His multi-tiered throne emphasizes his royal status. He looks directly at onlookers with confidence and a slight smile to emphasize his spiritual and material power.
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$385.00 Original price was: $385.00.$327.25Current price is: $327.25.
H: 8.5″ W: 15″ D:5″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This vibrant jewelry box containing 5 drawers with teardrop pulls is decorated with familiar auspicious symbols to bring blessings and good luck to its female owner. Red, the color of fu symbolizes blessings for a virtuous and blissful life; the young women on the doors holding lotus stems symbolize beauty and purity; and the 5 bats around a longevity character on the top mean “May you have a harmonious marriage with the Five Blessings.” With its propitious meanings, this charming box was probably a bride’s wedding gift that would still be appropriate today.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 7.25″ W: 3″ D: 1.625″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This Kitchen God and his wife are mirror-images, originally placed above the stove to monitor and bring good luck to the household. Finely carved, they wearing simplified officials robes and symbolically hold a tablet. On Chinese New Year Zao Shen ascends to the heavens to report to the Jade Emperor about the household’s morality: a favorable report brings blessings, fortune and continued life, and a poor one brings misfortune. Sometimes families smear honey on their lips to assure a favorable report. Their bright colors have faded naturally into a smooth warm patina which adds comfort and positive feng sui to any kitchen decor and are unique wedding and housewarming gifts.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 7.75″ W: 2.875″ D: 1.875″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This Kitchen God and His Wife are well-carved, articulated, well presented. As mirror images sitting on backless chairs on a high plinth, they have similar layered gold officials’ robes and very different headdresses. Their clasped hands covered in ritual cloth symbolizes holding a hu tablet, they portray the reverence and solemnity associated with house gods whose future of families are in their hands. Antique Kitchen gods are unique and wonderful house or wedding gifts as they add warmth to positive chi to any decor.
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$785.00 Original price was: $785.00.$667.25Current price is: $667.25.
H: 7.75″ W: 3.25″ D: 2.375″ | free shipping within Continental U.S.!
Finely detailed and carved from dense wood, this Kitchen God and his Wife monitor the members of the home from their perch above the stove. On Chinese New Year Zao Shen reports to the Jade Emperor in Heaven and a positive report bringsblessings and good fortune, while and unfavorable one brings misfortune. Family members often smear honey on his mouth to sweeten the report. Near mirror images they wear layered gold officials’ robes with decorative sashes and symbolically hold a hu tablet. They are in excellent condition and add positive chi and enhance feng shui. Kitchen Gods especially pairs are now rare and very collectible and make unique wedding and house gifts.
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$115.00 Original price was: $115.00.$97.75Current price is: $97.75.
H: 2.875” W: 3.25” Width: 1.5” | FREE SHIPPINGCWITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This antique manilla is made by the Kota in the northeastern region of Gabon and Congo. A thin wide C-shaped bracelet with an elaborate five section design, each section has unique designs with long striations, grooved crosshatches, long triangles and angled designs. In very good condition with minor losses, pitting and scratches, its rough surface inside is consistent with its age and use and comes with a wood and metal stand.
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$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$250.75Current price is: $250.75.
H: 3” Dia: 2.875″ | FREE SHIPPING!
This finely designed bronze kumkum container was used in Hindu worship (puja). It is a well-shaped ornamented cup divided artistically into three sections: a top flat lip surrounded by decorative bosses and parallel lines, and band of stylized leaves, and set on a tubular trunk on a decorative base. Also known as chopra containers, they were made from a variety of materials, although bronze was rather rare and used by wealthy Hindu women and royalty to store tikka kumkuma powder, as the poor could only afford those made from wood or pottery.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 5.75″ W: 3.25″ D: 2.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Each of this whimsical gold and red-burgundy lacquered pair of male fu lions sits erect on a high pedestal heads thrown back with flaring ears, bulging eyes, decorative stylized manes and a small bushy tail. Their spirituality is displayed by the pair silently emitting the blessed mantra “aum”: the open mouthed lion forming an “au,” and the other completing it with a closed mouth to form “mmm.” The workmanship on these pieces is masterful, although rustic and provincial, and they are rare with their Buddhist symbolism and because most pairs of fu lions pairs were lost during China’s modernization.
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$505.75Current price is: $505.75.
H: 16.375″ W: 13.625″ D: 5.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or [email protected]
This intricately carved black and heavily gilt antique cabinet is a fine example of a Straits Chinese furniture made in Guangdong for the Southeast Asia market. Carved openwork panels with phoenixes and lotuses are symbolic wishes for harmony, blessings, rank, good fortune; outstretched wings wish for harmonious marriage, many sons and the inside decoration a wish for status and successful career. Although flamboyant for todays taste, it is a unique accent piece and gift for newly weds.
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