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  • Sale! Antique Portable Study/Prayer Table, Tibet  #7020HOL

    Antique Portable Study/Prayer Table, Tibet #7020HOL

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $525.00.
    Ht: 13.75ā€ W: 26.25ā€Ā D: 13.125ā€ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CAL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected]

    One of a pair of antique low tables on 3 folding bamboo-shaped leg supports, this traveling prayer/study table was designed for Tibetan monks or nomadic families to lay out sutras (scriptures), scrolls, books and other study materials and by Tibetan devotees as a personal altar/prayer table. It is simply decorated with painted florals on vines and a fruit offering bowl symbolizing the flowering of enlightenment and opening of the heart.

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  • Sale! Antique Puppet Head of Queen Mother of the West, China #16800BCE

    Antique Puppet Head of Queen Mother of the West, China #16800BCE

    Original price was: $950.00.Current price is: $475.00.
    Ht: 17ā€ W: 4.25ā€ D: 4.5ā€ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Chinese puppet theatre thrived, educated and entertained people with puppets that usually had detachable heads. A very popular figure, the Queen Mother of the West is the highest ranking female Taoist deities venerated by women as a powerful, independent deity embodying yin (female energy) who they prayed to for health and long life. Her complex elaborate headdress includes a large outstretched tortoise atop her iconic symbol, the phoenix, all flanked by two nagas under an arch bordered with a scale like finish, a truly unique and impressive image. She is mounted on a modern contemporary frosted acrylic base.

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  • Antique Puppet Head with Top Bun, China (5274BCE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Puppet Head with Top Bun, China (5274BCE) SPECIAL PRICE

    $495.00

    Puppet theatre has traditionally assumed a major role in Chinese religious rituals and honoring major life and historical events. Local productions with beautifully carved puppets, music, drama and costumes instilled societal and cultural values as well as providing entertainment to audiences of all ages and educating provincial ones. This head has a typical tapering shaft…

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  • Antique Queen Mother of the West Casting Out Demons, China (16093BSK) $585

    Antique Queen Mother of the West Casting Out Demons, China (16093BSK) $585

    $585.00

    The Queen Mother of the West is one of the most significant of the female Taoist-deities and as a syncretic deity, has a huge Popular Religion and Buddhist cult following.Ā  She is one of the Great Chinese Goddesses and patron deity of women who controls life and death, creation and destruction and determines the life…

  • Sale! Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse with Elixir Bowl, China #16297BLEM

    Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse with Elixir Bowl, China #16297BLEM

    Original price was: $3,750.00.Current price is: $2,900.00.
    H:Ā  22″Ā  Ā  W: 8.75″Ā  Ā  D: 10″Ā  Ā  | Ā CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Wearing a magnificent headdress with her iconic phoenix this rare image of the Taoist Queen Mother holds a cup with the elixir of immortality which grants eternal life. She sits on an regal horse with a bell hangingĀ  on his chest. In the Taoist tradition horses symbolize man’s harmony with and the elegance of nature.

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  • Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse, China (16138BSE) $625

    Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse, China (16138BSE) $625

    $625.00

    Among the oldest Chinese female Taoist-deities, the Queen-Mother of the West Hsi Wang Mu is mentioned in 300 BCE in sacred texts as a goddess who ā€œobtained the Tao.ā€ A patron deity of women and a divine teacher associated with the cultivation of virtue and immortality, she controls the life, death, creation and destruction of…

  • Sale! Antique Rare 5pc Piece Stoneware Altar Set, Shiwan Kiln,  China #16901

    Antique Rare 5pc Piece Stoneware Altar Set, Shiwan Kiln, China #16901

    Original price was: $2,950.00.Current price is: $1,975.00.

     

    Overall Ht: 16ā€ W:Ā  28ā€ Ā D: 6ā€ | Ā CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    This rare 5 piece apple green Shiwan ceramic ā€œgarniture setā€Ā  comprised of two vases, 2 candlestick holders and a large censer was originally placed on a family altar in a central room which was the focal point of an affluent Chinese dwelling. Ritually used to perform ancestral offerings on a daily, semimonthly, and seasonal basis, compete sets in excellent condition are relative rare.

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  • 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 ”Ā  Ā  W:Ā  3.625″Ā  Ā  D: 3.5 ”Ā  Ā  | Ā FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

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

  • Antique Rare Large Lohan with Hands in Reverence, China (16436A-WHKE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Rare Large Lohan with Hands in Reverence, China (16436A-WHKE) SPECIAL PRICE

    $7,300.00
    H: 28.25Ā  W: 12.75ā€Ā  D: 9.75ā€ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    Although they are Buddhist images,Ā  Lohans are portrayed as a real person with very individual, distinctive, and un-idealized features.Ā  His benevolent youthful sweetly smiling face with downcast eyes is an image of compassion, wisdom and peace.This exceptional, beautifully crafted rare 17-18th century Ming/Qing large Lohan is from the same Buddhist location as the foreign-born heavy bearded Lohan Bodhidharma, and the same artist may have carved both. We recommend keeping them as a pair to display together.

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  • Sale! Antique Rare White Robed Guanyin on a HĒ’u, China H: 15.125"

    Antique Rare White Robed Guanyin on a HĒ’u, China H: 15.125″

    Original price was: $725.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 15.125ā€Ā  W: 6ā€Ā  D: 5ā€ | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!

    Rare carving of Guanyin in lalitsana clasping a rosary on a mythical HĒ’u curled around her leg. HĒ’us symbolize righteousness, morality and usher in peace and prosperity. Fine and rare provincial folk carving is small yet powerful, mounted on Acrylic base.

  • Sale! Antique Rarre Nanhai Guanyin with Attendants and Donor, China #16210BEME

    Antique Rarre Nanhai Guanyin with Attendants and Donor, China #16210BEME

    Original price was: $5,900.00.Current price is: $3,900.00.
    H: 34″Ā  W: 12″Ā  D: 15″Ā  | Ā CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    This rare and intriguing Nanhai Guanyin sits in her cave with internal layers at Putuo. On the top is the donor who commissionedĀ  the piece, seldomly placed within the Guanyin tableau.Two levels of attendant pairs flank her: the upper with her two acolytes Longnu, (the Dragon Princess) on her right holding a flaming gem, and Shan Tsai (Sudhana) on her left with hands, now missing, clasped in anjali mudra of reverence and two generic attendants are on the on the bottom. This work is truly remarkable in its execution and iconography.

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  • Sale! Antique Red Lacquer and Gilt Nanhai Guanyin #16302BEME

    Antique Red Lacquer and Gilt Nanhai Guanyin #16302BEME

    Original price was: $3,995.00.Current price is: $2,900.00.
    H: 19″ W: 10″ D: 8″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] for shipping INFORMATION.

    This wonderfully carvedĀ Nanhai Guanyin statue is notable for its highly ornate and beautiful diadem centered by an elaborately framed image of Buddha Amitabha seated in meditation. Her vibrant aura radiates spirituality and opulence, serenity and strength, as well as compassion and grace, making this statue a truly masterful piece of art.

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