Carvings & Sculpture

  • Antique Porcelain Cat Teapot, China #16944B

    Antique Porcelain Cat Teapot, China #16944B

    $145.00

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

    This charming antique white glazed porcelain figurine is a cat teapot with a raised paw with removable head for pouring liquid into the vessel and long sinuous tail as a handle to pour liquid from the opening at the end of the paw. The hand painted design is whimsical and colorful with a thin ribbon-like blue collar and a dangling ornamental bow with black accents defining the face, ears, head and paws.

  • Sale! Antique Porcelain Famille Rose Laughing Buddha, China #17038LMK

    Antique Porcelain Famille Rose Laughing Buddha, China #17038LMK

    Original price was: $850.00.Current price is: $700.00.
    H: 10.25” W: 9.5” D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Known as the Laughing, Happy, or Fat Buddha, Budai is regarded as a deity of contentment and plenty. Like most Early Chinese Republic porcelains this piece is hand decorated in famille rose enamels with vivid blue, red, and green pigments portrayed as a stout, smiling, bald monk in robes with a large, exposed pot belly surrounded by five children. Since the stomach is considered the seat of the soul in Chinese beliefs, it demonstrates his open heartedness. His wide smile attracts the children surrounding his body indicating his regard for them and his joy when they encircle him and well as the belief he can bequeath families with children.

  • Antique Puppet Head with Top Bun, China (5274BCE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Puppet Head with Top Bun, China (5274BCE) SPECIAL PRICE

    $495.00

    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…

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  • Antique Queen Mother of the West Casting Out Demons, China (16093BSK) $585

    Antique Queen Mother of the West Casting Out Demons, China (16093BSK) $585

    $585.00

    The Queen Mother of the West is one of the most significant of the female Taoist-deities and as a syncretic deity, has a huge Popular Religion and Buddhist cult following.  She is one of the Great Chinese Goddesses and patron deity of women who controls life and death, creation and destruction and determines the life…

  • Sale! Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse with Elixir Bowl, China #16297BLEM

    Antique Queen Mother of the West on Horse with Elixir Bowl, China #16297BLEM

    Original price was: $3,750.00.Current price is: $2,900.00.
    H:  22″    W: 8.75″    D: 10″    |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Wearing a magnificent headdress with her iconic phoenix this rare image of the Taoist Queen Mother holds a cup with the elixir of immortality which grants eternal life. She sits on an regal horse with a bell hanging  on his chest. In the Taoist tradition horses symbolize man’s harmony with and the elegance of nature.

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  • Sale! Antique Rare Carving of a Huntsman with Rifle, China 16743WHK

    Antique Rare Carving of a Huntsman with Rifle, China 16743WHK

    Original price was: $315.00.Current price is: $275.00.
    H: 9 ”    W:  3.625″    D: 3.5 ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This ancestor figure of a huntsman in the round is unique, standing on a  domed pedestal, facing half right holding a flint lock, wearing a hunting coat, a two-level hat,  traditional under- and outer-garment, and thick boots. As the noted scholar on Chinese wood carvings stated, a similar figure like this “unusual and extraordinary ancestral image of a huntsman with a flintlock gun, was the only ancestral image in his vast collection which “depicts the calling of the deceased.”

  • Antique Rare Large Lohan with Hands in Reverence, China (16436A-WHKE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Rare Large Lohan with Hands in Reverence, China (16436A-WHKE) SPECIAL PRICE

    $7,300.00
    H: 28.25  W: 12.75”  D: 9.75” | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    Although they are Buddhist images,  Lohans are portrayed as a real person with very individual, distinctive, and un-idealized features.  His benevolent youthful sweetly smiling face with downcast eyes is an image of compassion, wisdom and peace.This exceptional, beautifully crafted rare 17-18th century Ming/Qing large Lohan is from the same Buddhist location as the foreign-born heavy bearded Lohan Bodhidharma, and the same artist may have carved both. We recommend keeping them as a pair to display together.

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  • Sale! Antique Rare White Robed Guanyin on a Hǒu, China H: 15.125"

    Antique Rare White Robed Guanyin on a Hǒu, China H: 15.125″

    Original price was: $725.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 15.125”  W: 6”  D: 5” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!

    Rare carving of Guanyin in lalitsana clasping a rosary on a mythical Hǒu curled around her leg. Hǒus symbolize righteousness, morality and usher in peace and prosperity. Fine and rare provincial folk carving is small yet powerful, mounted on Acrylic base.

  • Sale! Antique Rarre Nanhai Guanyin with Attendants and Donor, China #16210BEME

    Antique Rarre Nanhai Guanyin with Attendants and Donor, China #16210BEME

    Original price was: $5,900.00.Current price is: $3,900.00.
    H: 34″  W: 12″  D: 15″  |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    This rare and intriguing Nanhai Guanyin sits in her cave with internal layers at Putuo. On the top is the donor who commissioned  the piece, seldomly placed within the Guanyin tableau.Two levels of attendant pairs flank her: the upper with her two acolytes Longnu, (the Dragon Princess) on her right holding a flaming gem, and Shan Tsai (Sudhana) on her left with hands, now missing, clasped in anjali mudra of reverence and two generic attendants are on the on the bottom. This work is truly remarkable in its execution and iconography.

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  • Sale! Antique Red Lacquer and Gilt Nanhai Guanyin #16302BEME

    Antique Red Lacquer and Gilt Nanhai Guanyin #16302BEME

    Original price was: $3,995.00.Current price is: $2,900.00.
    H: 19″ W: 10″ D: 8″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] for shipping INFORMATION.

    This wonderfully carved Nanhai Guanyin statue is notable for its highly ornate and beautiful diadem centered by an elaborately framed image of Buddha Amitabha seated in meditation. Her vibrant aura radiates spirituality and opulence, serenity and strength, as well as compassion and grace, making this statue a truly masterful piece of art.

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  • Antique Repoussé  Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    Antique Repoussé Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    $595.00

    This Tibetan Repoussé image presents various symbols of the Enlightenment of the Shakyamuni-Buddha. He sits within a trefoil arch on a lotus base  (padmapitha) under the bodhi tree in bhumisparsha mudra (earth witnessing or hand touching position) symbolizing the moment of his enlightenment legs bent in (padmasana). The detailed trefoil arch surrounding the Buddha’s head…

  • Antique Repoussé Vishnu Votive Plaque, India (5174A-TAK) $250

    Antique Repoussé Vishnu Votive Plaque, India (5174A-TAK) $250

    $250.00

    Most Hindus have images of one or more murtis (gods and goddesses) on their home altar to help them in their daily prayers (puja), focus their attention and help visualize them. A murti is treated with the utmost respect, care and reverence but devotees never worship the objects and instead use them used only to…

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