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This charming vintage porcelain cat teapot with raised paw for pouring tea, removable head and a sinuous tail handle is whimsical and colorful with a red ribbon collar, green bow and green, black and red accents defining the expressive face, ears, head and paws, all beautifully hand-painted.
This large, charming Republic seated cat teapot has a raised paw and a removable head to allow hot water to be poured inside through the neck and a long, a sinuously curved cat tail handle that allows one to pour liquid out the hole at the end of the paw. Whimsically painted with a decorative collar it represents a gesture of greeting and hospitality it is believed to welcome good luck and fortune.
This small charming Qing or early Chinese Republic teapot is in the form of an attendant, the arm she holds up imitates the spout of a teapot, the left arm arches to touch her waist suggesting a teapot handle and the hair is atop her head with flowers is a removable lid for pouring tea inside. She typical attendant clothing, a high mandarin collared jacket draped over a flaring skirt that is the piece’s base.
Luristan nomads made sophisticated and imaginative bronzes prized in the ancient world for their inventive designs and fine craftsmanship. This Iron Age finely cast figurine depicting a long horned goat, a major source of food for survival has a detailed head with long antlers, tall thin legs, large eyes and a slightly curved body and is mounted on a Lucite base.
This extraordinary rare and delicately rendered rural carving is a female bodhisattva possibly Guanyin seated on a lotus throne atop an ox. Beautifully highlighted in vibrant gold and adorned with intricate designs on the lotus petals and ox’s saddle coverings, this statue shows how the concept of a bodhisattva was adapted to the deification of “draft animals” (beasts of burden) who were integral to rural daily and agricultural activities in Chinese Popular Religion, Buddhism and Taoism beliefs.
This delicately carved home altar Guanyin is gender neutral in meditation on a lotus throne. Her humble demeanor, modest robes and absence of stylized decorative details exemplify the best of provincial Ming and Qing carvings. She is a tranquil figure with simple, soft, and beautifully rendered facial wearing a five-lobed crown symbolically representing the five Dyhani Buddhas and reflecting Vajrayana Tantric influence.
This rare and beautiful cadence drum was used in a Chinese temple to help monks and chanters think about the meaning of the texts they recite. Carved fish scales and two fish heads embrace a pearl carved on the handle to symbolize unanimity and accord. The fish pair is similar to the popular pair of…
This rare Ming/Qing wood Buddha as an infant is remarkable because of the way it has survived: although the arms, legs and torso have deteriorated, it is virtually untouched from the neck up. With its smooth but irregular surface, this piece for lovers of wood, which probably more striking than the original piece, as its erosion shows the random miracle of chance. Highlighted on a frosted acrylic base.
This rare magnificent carving of Joseph with the Christ child from Kerala reflects a blend of Portuguese and European traditions with the indigenous traditions of South India. Joseph stands in an altered European contrapposto pose, light-skinned, blue-eyed, with western features. As the earthly father and patron saint of workers, he wears a modest burnt-umber shawl. Exquisitely carved, he is the embodiment of simple spirituality.
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.
Yixing stoneware teapots are praised as the best in the world for tea infusion. This gorgeous, extremely rare antique teapot with tight-fitting lid and elegant spout is finely decorated with a brown wash and hand applied bright painted enamel designs designs of a scene from the Peking opera Romance of Three Kingdoms. The floral images are a wish for a long and healthy life, perfect metaphors for those sharing a fresh pot of tea with those they love. Kiln seals are impressed in the body, bottom and lid.
Balinese carvings and masks are ethnic folk art and a blend of Hinduism and its initial animism. Most masks made in Bali are from pulai wood that rarely cracks and is easier to carve. As it is not native to Lombok, carvers there use a variety of woods some of which were dense with others light….
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