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Antique Home, Temple or Palace Guardian Figure symbolizing protection and devotion. Beautiful courtly multi-tiered attire and tall, pointed headdress signifying celestial and royal status. Rattanakosin style blending elegance with sacred symbolism.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This elegantly shaped and beautiful high-fired antique porcelain ewer was decorated on its outside with a saffron-colored glaze called a coral red glaze. The sides have a white glazed quatrefoil panel with hand-painted multi-colored floral designs on a white background within a gold frame interspersed among sinuous gold leaf vines across the body and neck and a white glaze covers the inside and bottom. Its beauty is enhanced with its graceful spout, colorful white and gold panel beautiful.
Utilitarian ceramics like this were used in home kitchens and restaurants to hold oil, sauces, soy or other liquids. This spouted blue and white porcelain jar has four loops, also called lugs, so a natural fiber such as rattan could be threaded to either secure a top create a way to hang it to a peg. Sealing the top was very useful if the jars contained liquid and needed to be transported. The piece is decorated in a free and expressive manner with a charming impression of a country scene of a building in a landscape surrounded by tall trees. The cobalt is thick and dark in some areas of the foliage and applied with a thin, sparing and light brush elsewhere.
One of a pair of Tibetan antique folding traveling prayer/study table for monks or nomadic families to lay out sutras (scriptures), scrolls, books, other study materials. Decorated with painted florals and fruit offering bowl symbolizing flowering of enlightenment and opening of the heart.
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…
Very rare depiction of Queen Mother of the West puppet head wearing elaborate headdress with outstretched tortoise legs atop a phoenix, reflecting early shamanism rites of turtle shell divination. Mounted on acrylic base.
Rare single image of Kitchen God and wife, indicating their close/lasting relationship as family’s protectors. Detailed elaborate officials’ robes, headgear. Individually portrayed holding hu tablets like those held by high court officials or Taoist priests.
This simple, elegant beautifully shaped footed porcelain bowl is thinly crafted with a monotone coral saffron glaze on the outside and a grayish-white glaze on the inside. It has a rather high and deep foot and the bottom has a fading red stamped seal of an unknown kiln. It is in excellent condition and some minor pitting inside the bowl caused by gases escaping from the clay body during the firing cycle. Likely from the Togzhi Period 1862-1874.
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