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$125.00
H: 7.375″ W: 5.125″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Chopsticks are ubiquitous in Chinese culture, and are often included in a bride’s dowry as a wish for a speedy arrival of many sons. This Shiwan ware green glazed wall pocket chopsticks holder has characters wishing for many sons and grandsons and an upside down bat holding a coin for “blessings in front of your eyes.”
Decorative utilitarian Shiwanware 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.”
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$295.00
H: 8.25” W: 6.75” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Wall pockets are used to hold chopsticks and flowers to bring good fortune. This Shiwan pocket has frog and a lotus that together symbolize nurturing energy and transformation. Great cozy accessory for feng shui and a wonderful wedding gift.
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$395.00
Ht; 13.75” W: 8” D: 4.25” | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Rare mask used in Noh Opera performances depicting Zhīxiàn – a popular figure of a wise, benevolent judge who resolved local disputes and was likely used in rituals to ask the gods for blessings, health, and long life. Signs of authentic wear from dance theater performances.
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$295.00
H: 6.75″ W: 5.75″D: 3.75″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This authentic danced topeng bondres Balinese mask is a clownish character in both mask dances and traditional historical topeng dramas. With an exaggerated smile and grotesque features, it provides comic relief. Carved by same artisan as1212B, they make great as a pair.
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$325.00
H: 9.125″ W: 6″ D: 3.25″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This authentic blackened elongated anthropomorphic oval ritual mask is strongly associated with animist traditions of the West Timor Atoni people. Its simple geometric features, broad face, and animal hide are distinctive Antoni minimalist carving traditions.
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$325.00
H: 6.75″ W: 4.675″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This rare wood painted face of Dewi Sri was made on the Hindu Island of Nusa Penida near Bali. Usually depicted as a beautiful young woman, she symbolizes abundance and the cycle of life. A Hindu gebongan (rice offering), it would have been in a shrine dedicated to her in a rice field, temple, or a village ajacent to rice fields.
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$325.00
H: 7.875″ W: 8.125″ D: 4.25″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Exceptional and rare cross-cultural performance Topeng Tua mask made by the minority Balinese community in Lombok. Highly collectable mask displaying the unique stylistic crossover of the Balinese-Lombok diaspora.
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$295.00
Ht: 8″ W: 6″ D: 4.125″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Masterfully carved authentic antique mask of powerful Monkey King Subali from the Ramayana with exaggerated simian characteristics made to present his power. Wear from use in Balinese drama theater presentations.
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$0.00
H: 6.5″ W: 4.75″ D: 2″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Simple yet elegant carved and painted wood rice offering head of Dewi Sri, the Goddess of Rice, Agriculture and Fertility in Bali and Java. Made in the Balinese community living on the close Island of Nusa Penida, it is a rare vintage carving.
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$225.00
H: 7.5″ W: 5″ D: 3.75″ | Free SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This very masterful and unusual Jauk mask carved by the Balinese community on Lombok has a sweet smile and moustache and eyebrows of animal hide and hair. The dancer wear gloves with very long fingernails moving his hands back and forth to generate anxiety in onlookers.
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$495.00
H: 37″ W: 16″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL VANISHINGARTS213@GMAIL.COM FOR SHIPPING.
Fine open-lattice fret work cupboard door with auspicious symbols of blessings associated with a fulfilling life: longevity, wealth/ prosperity, health/peace of mind and love of virtue/high moral standards as well as a happy marriage. .
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$295.00
Ht: 7.5″ W: 5.5″ D: 4″ Free Shipping in Continental U.S.
Balinese monkey masks (topeng bojog) are used in dance-dramas based on the ancient Indian moral epic the Ramayana. In Balinese Hinduism, monkeys as sacred guardians and protectors of temples where their auspicious presence brings good luck.
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