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$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$195.00Current price is: $195.00.
H: 8.5″ W: 4″ D: 2.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Antique Chinese puppets were often made in several parts with removable heads. This antique carved head of a beauty has delicately painted features and an animal hair braided down the back. Since there is an area without hair towards the back, she likely originally wore a hat or headdress. A hole on top probably accommodated strings.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
Ht: 5″. W: 4″. D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This pair of red and gold antique carvings were likely part of a woman’s bed frame to bless and protect its occupants. The lions hold spherical 5-leaf plums as a wish for the 5 blessings and for passing civilian official exams Mounted on a frosted acrylic base.
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$1,450.00
The top design on this stoneware garden stool is a simplified open narcissus with a white and yellow center; it is a symbol of good fortune and prosperity. Below are intertwined double lozenges, followed on the lowest register of by white octagonal shapes and ending with a low orange-yellow rectangle pierced in the center. A…
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$235.00 Original price was: $235.00.$185.00Current price is: $185.00.
H: 7.25″ W: 5″ D: 5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This five-sided Shiwan stoneware pillow with slanted top, open bottom, vibrant glazed surface, and etched coin and diamond design was used for smoking opium as the cool shell cradled the users’ heads and necks and offset the warmth of smoking and the hollow inside stored valuables. We have another which can be paired with it. If a candle is placed inside it emits an amazing shadowy form of a coin, which appealed to those in an opium state.
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$235.00 Original price was: $235.00.$150.00Current price is: $150.00.
H: 10.5” W: 3.25” D: 2.375” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S. !
This elegant antique heddle-pulley carved from a single piece of Burmese teak is topped by a hamsa, a goose-like bird and a sacred Buddhist symbol of wisdom. Auspicious symbolic animal images are believed protect the weaver, assure quality weaving, and pleases the gods and spirits. It is wonderfully weathered from time and use.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$285.00Current price is: $285.00.
H: 9″ W: 8.375″ D: 5.5″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This very attractive antique green glazed teapot is typical of the stoneware pottery made in the Shiwan kilns in Guangdong during the 18-19th century. Finely designed, this hexagonal pot has a yoked rounded handle with spiral decorations that adds a delightful touch. The pieces are well known for their brilliant flambé—or flame-like quality – glazes such as apple green glaze of this pot.
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$365.00 Original price was: $365.00.$325.00Current price is: $325.00.
H: 13″ W: 8.5″ D: 4.75″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Hindus use oil lamps (diya) like for ritual prayer rituals (puja) performed on home altars. Light and the act of lighting a lamp signify purity, virtuosity, goodness and brings one good luck and power. Peacocks are common motifs symbolize love, joy, peace and harmony.
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$585.00 Original price was: $585.00.$395.00Current price is: $395.00.
H: 9″ W: 18.5″ D:5.8″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING.
As a wish for a prosperity, health, and many sons, this small table probably was in a young couple’s bedroom. Guanyin sits on a hǒu holding lotuses in the right panel and the left has rats with melons fertility symbols. Perfect for a personal home altar or wedding gift.
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$385.00 Original price was: $385.00.$325.00Current price is: $325.00.
Ht: 8.5” W: 15” D: 9” | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Given the auspicious images on this finely crafted red and gilt jewelry box, it was probably a wedding gift for a fortunate couple as a wish for fertility, harmony and many and sons. The doors have a carved lotus symbolizing beauty and purity and the top has 5 bats surrounding a longevity roundel. When depicted on a box, it means as “May you have a harmonious marriage with the Five Blessings” (longevity, health, wealth, virtue and a peaceful death) and signifies completeness, togetherness and harmony.
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$395.00
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.$425.00Current price is: $425.00.
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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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$325.00Current price is: $325.00.
H: 22 ” W: 21.5 ” D: .12.25 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This small elm cabinet is from Fujian province known highly decorative vernacular for the new wealthy merchant class. Vernacular furniture was often red lacquer with auspicious symbols. The left door has a magpie on plum tree branch and the right a magpie with a chrysanthemum. The magpie is the bird of joy and happiness and the magpie and chrysanthemum mean “May the whole family be happy,” The a plum symbolizes longevity) and when they have 5 leaves are a wish for the Five Joys/Happinesses: health, wealth, longevity, a life of virtue and a peaceful death. These cabinets were perfect gifts for newlyweds as a desire for double happiness, a long and fruitful marriage with sons
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