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  • Sale! Antique Stoneware Lotus and Frog Wall Pocket, Shiwan, China #19302J

    Antique Stoneware Lotus and Frog Wall Pocket, Shiwan, China #19302J

    Original price was: $285.00.Current price is: $185.00.
    H: 8.25” W: 6.75” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Wall pockets remain a very common decorative element in Asian homes. In China, they are used to hold chopsticks and flowers to bring good fortune to a space where the family gathers. This Shiwan stoneware pocket has 2 very auspicious symbols: a frog and a lotus that symbolize nurturing energy and transformation. With a hole in the back for hanging on a wall, it is great addition to enhance a kitchen’s coziness and feng shui and a wonderful wedding gift.

  • Sale! Antique Stoneware Wall Pocket Chopsticks Holder, China, Shiwan China #16966A

    Antique Stoneware Wall Pocket Chopsticks Holder, China, Shiwan China #16966A

    Original price was: $115.00.Current price is: $98.00.
    H: 7.375″ W: 5.125″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Decorative utilitarian Shiwan ware pieces are recognized for their fine modeling, vivid expression, and colorful apple-green and drip glazes.  Chopsticks were commonly stored in wall pockets with a hole for mounting. Covered with auspicious symbols, they were often part of a bride’s dowry as “chopsticks” is a pun for “speedy arrival of sons.” It can hold utensils, dried flowers, and other objects and is a unique wedding gift.

  • Sale! Antique Teak Hamsa Heddle Pulley, Stand, Burma/Myanmar (11298B)

    Antique Teak Hamsa Heddle Pulley, Stand, Burma/Myanmar (11298B)

    Original price was: $265.00.Current price is: $165.00.
    Ht: 10.625″ W: 3.375″  D: 2.5″|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 with minor losses with a fine patina. Mounted on a black wood base, this heddle pulley pairs well with item number 11298A.

  • Sale! Antique Two Sided Sweetmeat Confection-Mold, China #3562

    Antique Two Sided Sweetmeat Confection-Mold, China #3562

    Original price was: $425.00.Current price is: $310.00.
    Ht: 1.25″   W: 15″    D:14.87″   |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    This intricately hand carved gold and silver platter with indentations on both sides was used to make confections called sweetmeats eaten at festivals, holidays, and other key celebrations. The round molds symbolize the moon and cohesion of the family. The 5-petal plum blossoms attached to vines symbolize  purity and endurance, as well as  the coming of spring, renewal, and longevity. The multiple seeds are a wish for fertility and sons, and thus this mold  may have been a holiday and/or marriage gift to a young couple.

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  • Antique Wood Kitchen God and His Wife, China (19028LAK) $995

    Antique Wood Kitchen God and His Wife, China (19028LAK) $995

    $995.00

    The Kitchen God (Zao Shen) was and still is among the most important Chinese house gods. Traditionally every family had its own Kitchen God with or without his wife above the stove to reflect his and its central position in the family’s life. The Kitchen God is both a syncretic and a tutelary deity embraced…

  • Antique Wood Oil Lamp Double Fish Design, China #16902A-POK

    Antique Wood Oil Lamp Double Fish Design, China #16902A-POK

    $325.00
    H: 35″    W: 5.75″    D: 8″ CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPing

    This charming oil lamp is decorated with auspicious symbols: Fish symbolize harmony, marital happiness and double fish  mean “may there be abundance.” The oil cup is a lotus seed with a lotus leaf, symbols of a harmonious and fruitful marriage and also mean “the continuous birth of sons.”

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  • Antique Wood Oil Lamp with Double Fish, Lotus Design, China 16902B-POK

    Antique Wood Oil Lamp with Double Fish, Lotus Design, China 16902B-POK

    $325.00
    H: 35″    W: 5.75″    D: 8″    | |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    This charming oil lamp is decorated with auspicious symbols: Fish symbolize harmony, marital happiness and double fish  mean “may there be abundance.” The oil cup is a lotus seed with a lotus leaf, symbols of a harmonious and fruitful marriage and also mean “the continuous birth of sons,”

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Bejeweled Dancer, Burma/Myanmar #T038PACK

    Antique/Vintage Bejeweled Dancer, Burma/Myanmar #T038PACK

    Original price was: $1,350.00.Current price is: $950.00.
    H: 19.75″  W: 7.75″  D: 5″ | FOR SHIPPING QUOTATION CALL US AT 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected]

    This exquisite teak carving of a Mandalay Burmese male dancer wearing a sarong is in a fluid twisted pose emphasizing his strength, balance and grace with his raised hand is in a position similar to a Buddhist mudra. His humble status is reflected his head scarf and a bejeweled sarong with insert glass that reflect light and add movement and depth. His joyful beautiful face stares with open eyes and slightly parted lips It is simply a gorgeous work mounted on a contemporary frosted stand to complement any setting.

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Black Lacquer Monk's Offering Hsun-Ok, Burma/Myanmar #6211BSK

    Antique/Vintage Black Lacquer Monk’s Offering Hsun-Ok, Burma/Myanmar #6211BSK

    Original price was: $695.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 26.25″ Dia: 12.5″ |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    Artfully shaped lacquered Hsun Ok for offerings to monks lid with a finial symbolizing a Buddhist stupa and applied mythical animals and floral decorations. Early 20th century pieces with these special details are harder to find and copies abound.

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Carved Hindu Devi Child's Doll, India 3120FLK

    Antique/Vintage Carved Hindu Devi Child’s Doll, India 3120FLK

    Original price was: $85.00.Current price is: $55.00.

     

    Ht: 9..5 ”    W:  2″    D:1.5  ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This antique carving of a Devi, the Sanskrit word for divine probably was a child’s toy and and a protective item. She has a tikka mark on her forehead, ample breasts – a wish for fertility-, and an upright stance asserting her position as a protective deity. It has been handled so often the wood and paint are extremely smooth with a shiny patina.

  • Antique/Vintage Earth God Tudi Gong with Wife, China (16342LOE) $785

    Antique/Vintage Earth God Tudi Gong with Wife, China (16342LOE) $785

    $785.00

    These carvings of the Taoist-Deities Tudi Gong and his wife Tudi Po are from rural Southern China where they were frequently depicted together as house-gods on a home altar or local temple for farmers to pray to for abundant harvests and success in selling their products. Although Tudi Gong is a low ranking deity, he…

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  • Antique/Vintage Jetayu Mask, Museum Quality Stand, Bali  H: 13.75" (1208BEK)

    Antique/Vintage Jetayu Mask, Museum Quality Stand, Bali H: 13.75″ (1208BEK)

    $650.00
    H:  13.75″ W: 3″. D: 3.75″ |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Rare vintage Balinese mask of Jatayu used in performances of the Ramayana.  Jatayu is the Hindu mythical vahana (vehicle) of Vishnu, one of the triad of principal Hindu gods. On a museum quality stand.

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