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  • Sale! Antique Ming Earthenware Horseshoe Chair, China  #3330BOK

    Antique Ming Earthenware Horseshoe Chair, China #3330BOK

    Original price was: $685.00.Current price is: $395.00.
    H: 7.375″  W: 4.375″  D: 3.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    Horseshoe chairs were considered a sign of rank used by officials and often ancestral figures were portrayed sitting in them to reflect their high status. This well-modeled green glaze ceramic mingqi of a horseshoe chair is decorated with a yellow glaze imitating caning and the decorative carved circular design on the splat. It pairs well with item Ming Earthenware Horseshoe Chair 3331. This would be a fine addition to a collection of antique ceramics or simply a beautiful decorative piece to brighten a small space.

  • Antique Miniature Gilt Cabinet with Side Carving, China (19223)

    Antique Miniature Gilt Cabinet with Side Carving, China (19223)

    $393.00
    Ht: 15.25″   W: 11″   D: 4.875″  |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING

    Parents often gave small red and gold carved cabinets as wedding gifts as a wish for the young couple to have many sons.  The peony is a metaphor for female beauty and fertility, a willow represents spring – season of youth, new beginnings, optimism and fertility.

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  • Antique Nuo Opera Female Mask, China (19220)

    Antique Nuo Opera Female Mask, China (19220)

    $325.00
    H: 9.25″  W: 5.75″   D: 2.25″    |     FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Rare antique Chinese Noa opera mask is likely a female  zhengshen – a benevolent gods with kind and honest nature and gentle disposition -symbolizing the power of good to defeat evil. Age and heavy use

  • Antique Official Showing His Belt of Office (19047)

    Antique Official Showing His Belt of Office (19047)

    $695.00
    H: 15″ W: 6.5″ D: 5.5″  | EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM OR CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING COST

    This excellently carved ancestor civilian official with gilt highlights was commissioned to be place on a home altar for veneration and impress those who viewed it and to honor the venerated ancestor’s persistence, success, status and power.

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  • Antique Pair Double Happiness Oil Lamps, China (16915)

    Antique Pair Double Happiness Oil Lamps, China (16915)

    $275.00
    H:9.25  ”    W: 5.25 ”    D: 3.5 ”    | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING.

    Pair of oil lamps for good fortune with diamond shaped double lozenge meaning many treasures, and plum blossoms, symboling  the Five Happinesses – wealth, health, longevity, peaceful death and love of virtue.

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  • Antique Palace or Temple Guardian Figure, Thailand (T431)

    Antique Palace or Temple Guardian Figure, Thailand (T431)

    $1,150.00
    H:  25″  W: 8″ D: 6″ |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING.

    Regional Rattanakosin carving of a Thai celestial guardian or attendant originally placed on a home or small temple for protection and devotion. Stylized layered garment, intricate detailing and headdress signify his celestial and royal status.

     

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  • Antique Peacock Heddle Pulley, Burma/Myanmar (11297A)

    Antique Peacock Heddle Pulley, Burma/Myanmar (11297A)

    $195.00
    H: 13”  W: 3.75”  D: 2.625” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Burmese teak heddle pulley surmounted by a graceful peacock that symbolizes wholeness, combining colors and fleeting nature of all things. Based on old animistic beliefs, heddles are decorated with  auspicious animals providing the weaver protection, assuring good quality weaving and pleasing the gods.

  • Antique Peacock Heddle Pulley, Burma/Myanmar (11297B)

    Antique Peacock Heddle Pulley, Burma/Myanmar (11297B)

    $195.00
    H: 14″ W: 2.675” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    This elegant heddle pulley carved from a single piece of Burmese teak is topped by a peacock, which in Buddhism represents the short-lived nature of all things. In Burmese animistic traditions, it auspicious animal images protect the weaver, assure quality weaving, and please the gods and spirits. Finely weathered from time and use.

  • Antique Peacock with Inset Mirrors and Glass (3122)  Burma/Myanmar

    Antique Peacock with Inset Mirrors and Glass (3122) Burma/Myanmar

    $875.00
    H:  16.5” W: 9.5”   | 2.875” :  |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING.

    Carved Mandalay style peacocks with outspread feathers like this were placed over entrances to protect religious and government buildings. The peacock was emblem of last Burmese Dynasty symbolizing the monarchy descending from the sun.

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  • Antique Porcelain Cat Teapot, China (16944B)

    Antique Porcelain Cat Teapot, China (16944B)

    $125.00
    Ht: 6.25”  W: 5.5” D: 3.25”  |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    The Chinese characters within a circled seal in the mold on the bottom indicate this teapot is an  antique. As the thin ribbon blue collar as wishes for long life, it is a perfect birthday gift. Recommended for decorative use only.

  • Sale! Antique Porcelain Ewer Quatrefoil Panels, China (18036)

    Antique Porcelain Ewer Quatrefoil Panels, China (18036)

    Original price was: $235.00.Current price is: $195.00.
    H: 4.875″ W: 4.5″ D: 3.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONtINENTAL U.S.

    Elegantly shaped porcelain ewer with graceful spout, saffron-colored glaze, quatrefoil panels and hand-painted floral designs within a gold frame with sinuous gold leaf vines.

  • Sale! Antique Porcelain Spouted Jar with Lugs, China (1106)

    Antique Porcelain Spouted Jar with Lugs, China (1106)

    Original price was: $145.00.Current price is: $105.00.
    H: 5”  W: 5.25”  D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING within continental US.

    Blue and white ceramics like spouted jar with four loops, were used in home kitchens and restaurants to hold oil, sauces, soy or other liquids. Decorated with country scene in a landscape with by tall trees.

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