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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 carvedĀ 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 RepoussĆ©  Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

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

    $595.00

    This Tibetan RepoussĆ© image presents various symbols of the Enlightenment of the Shakyamuni-Buddha. He sits within a trefoil arch on a lotus base Ā (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 RepoussĆ© Vishnu Votive Plaque, India (5174A-TAK) $250

    Antique RepoussƩ 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…

  • Sale! Antique Seated Ancestor Official, China #16289BME

    Antique Seated Ancestor Official, China #16289BME

    Original price was: $650.00.Current price is: $325.00.
    H: 7.25ā€ W: 4.625ā€ D: 3.5ā€ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This finely carved ancestor wears official’s attire and hat and sits in a horseshoe chair with his feet on a pedestal to emphasize his power and status, although he appears to be a lovwer level civilian official.Ā  It is masterfully carved and lacquered and is painted on front and back in redĀ  with traces of gilt – all propitious colors of “fu” as a wish for wealth, health, good fortune, long life and long life – that has faded over it years of use into a great patina.

  • Sale! Antique Seated Taoist Priest Holding Elixir of Immortality #16312BOK China

    Antique Seated Taoist Priest Holding Elixir of Immortality #16312BOK China

    Original price was: $675.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    Ht: 9″ W: 5″ D: 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    During the Ming and Qing dynasties small images of Taoist officials and priests were often shown holding a cup of the elixir of life to place on home altars along with ancestor figures, house gods and other religious images to bring blessings (fu) to the household. By commissioningĀ  figures like this artful carving, families honored their ancestors and met their filial piety duties. Mounted on an acrylic stand.

  • Sale! Antique Shen Nong, Founder of Natural Medicine, China (16530BCEM)

    Antique Shen Nong, Founder of Natural Medicine, China (16530BCEM)

    Original price was: $4,600.00.Current price is: $3,900.00.
    H:Ā  30.5″Ā  Ā  Ā W: 19.25″Ā  Ā  Ā  D:Ā  11.75Ā  Ā  Ā | Ā CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    This fine and rare kneeling image is Shen Nong one of most revered cultural heroes in Chinese mythology. He is the Founder of Natural Medicine, the Father of Agriculture and an Earth God. He is said to have invented farming implements and introduced planting, cultivation, crop rotation and methods of raising domestic animals and theĀ  author of the earliest known Chinese medical classic covering medical physiology, anatomy and acupuncture – the Canon of Internal Medicine. It is a perfectly fitting and unique carving for a professional in the health care, pharmaceutical agricultural professions.

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  • Sale! Antique Small Guanyin on a Radiating Lotus, China #16534MSK

    Antique Small Guanyin on a Radiating Lotus, China #16534MSK

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $495.00.
    H: 8.675″Ā  Dia: 4.5″ | Free SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This delicate small Mahayana Buddhist carving of seated White Robed Guanyin in meditation sits in meditation on a radiating lotus throneĀ  symbolizing her enlightenment, rebirth and purity. As a Popular Religion figure, she is humble, modest, relatable, accessible, yet a beautiful matronly figure. This beautiful figurine was placed on a home altar with other spiritual statues and house gods.Ā  Mounted on a frosted acrylic base.

  • Sale! Antique Songzi Guanyin, Bestower of Children, China #16311XOKE

    Antique Songzi Guanyin, Bestower of Children, China #16311XOKE

    Original price was: $2,650.00.Current price is: $1,975.00.
    H: 14.5ā€Ā  W: 8.25ā€Ā  D: 5ā€ Ā  Ā | Ā CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST

    This beautiful Guanyin is carved in the rural provincial tradition: a modest, compassionate and humble deity with a simple ā€œcrownā€ of lotus leaves and an unadorned robe with flowing sleeves extended to her plain pedestal lined with simple leaves. Her face is extremely empathetic with a slight smile as she tenderly grasping her child who resembles the infant Buddha. Given its size and elegance it was probably on a home altar of a well to do couple desirous of having a (male) baby.

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  • Antique Stone Earth God Tudi Gong, China (17406BSK) $725

    Antique Stone Earth God Tudi Gong, China (17406BSK) $725

    $725.00
    H: 8ā€Ā  W: 5ā€ Ā D4ā€ | FREE SHIPPING!

    This antique stone Tudi Gong statue was finely crafted by a local provincial artisan and reflects many traditional characteristics of this beloved lower status deity: a benevolent face, voluminous rotund belly, slouched shoulders, and holding taels to bestow wealth and fortune and maybe assurances to rural common folk. In his past he rested happily on an outdoor shrine, and would be very happy to continue doing so in a home garden to bring prosperity and an aura of past times to a new family.

  • Antique Stone Fu Lion, China (16394JLM)

    Antique Stone Fu Lion, China (16394JLM)

    $195.00
    H: 4.5″Ā  Dia: 3.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This hand carved antique stone flu lion is a fun loving benevolent creature as seen in his open mouth with sharp teeth in a fanciful grin with a curled tongue, mischievously twinkling eyes under bushy eyebrows and a compressed rotund body with a very small tail. This is not your refined portrait of an elegant protective beast, it’s just a friendly pet hanging out . He probably lived in the garden of a provincial fun-loving family and is looking for a similar environment where people like old wonderful pieces to remind them not to take themselves too seriously.

  • Antique Taoist Literature God on a Dragon, China (16615PBRK) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Taoist Literature God on a Dragon, China (16615PBRK) SPECIAL PRICE

    $795.00

    Initially linked to the Big Dipper in Chinese mythology, Wen Chang isĀ  worshipped in the 3rd and 8th months as the God of several spheres: Literature, Books and Writing, Education, Learning and Examinations and is the patron saint of scholars. As one of the revered Taoist-deities, hero and one of the house-gods closely associated with…

  • Antique Taoist Official Holding a Hu Tablet, China (19043QRK) $295

    Antique Taoist Official Holding a Hu Tablet, China (19043QRK) $295

    $295.00

    Taoist images were represented as scholars, sages, heroes, deities, officials and priests. When these images are taken out of context they are very difficult to identify so we describe them in generic terms as a Taoist Officials, Priests or Deities. We identify this image an Official since he holds a hu-tablet associated with officials and…

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