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$875.00 Original price was: $875.00.$475.00Current price is: $475.00.
H: 15.5″ W: 6.125 ” 4.125 D: ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This carved ancestor figure portrayed as an official sits on a backless chair with a decorative pedestal in official’s attire: a high collared red robe, double belt above and below his ample stomach and holding a long slender curved hu-tablet, all signs of his office and status. He is vibrantly painted in red, the color of fu, as a wish for prosperity and status.
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$985.00
H: 15″ W: 6.5″ D: 5.5″ | EMAIL [email protected] OR CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING COST
This excellently carved civilian official with gilt highlights was commissioned by a family to place on a home altar for veneration and to impress those who viewed it. The imposing ancestor figure grasps his belt of office to show his pride in passing examinations to become a civil official, which leads to a life of rank and prosperity for him and his family. Statues like this are an affirmation of persistence, success, status and power and they honor those who display these characteristics.
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$650.00 Original price was: $650.00.$395.00Current price is: $395.00.
H: 7.75” W: 3.5″ D: 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental U.S.
Rare and charming carved attendant pair to flank deities on circular pedestals presenting boxed offerings with ribbons as wish for longevity.
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$1,200.00 Original price was: $1,200.00.$950.00Current price is: $950.00.
H: 25″ W: 8″ D: 6″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
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.
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$245.00 Original price was: $245.00.$185.00Current price is: $185.00.
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.
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$245.00 Original price was: $245.00.$175.00Current price is: $175.00.
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.
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$725.00 Original price was: $725.00.$595.00Current price is: $595.00.
H: 16.5” W: 9.5” | 2.875” : | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] 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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$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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$585.00 Original price was: $585.00.$395.00Current price is: $395.00.
H: 11.5″ W: 5.3″ D: 4.2″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Provincial carving with iconic phoenix headdress, hands in karana mudra to cast out demons, negative energy and purify spaces. Image was on home altar and consecrated with a sealed cover.
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$3,750.00 Original price was: $3,750.00.$2,900.00Current price is: $2,900.00.
H: 22″ W: 8.75″ D: 10″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Rare Queen Mother on horseback symbolize harmony with nature, magnificent headdress with phoenix, holds elixir of immortality cup granting eternal life.
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$525.00 Original price was: $525.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
H: 11.25″ W: 4.6″ | 3.25″ FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Dense hardwood Queen Mother carving with phoenix in crown, holding robe across body, calmly seated on backless throne, much original polychrome and lacquer finish remains. Sealed consecrated cavity.
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$315.00 Original price was: $315.00.$275.00Current 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.”
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