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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$525.00Current price is: $525.00.
Ht: 13.75” W: 26.25” D: 13.125” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CAL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected]
One of a pair of antique low tables on 3 folding bamboo-shaped leg supports, this traveling prayer/study table was designed for Tibetan monks or nomadic families to lay out sutras (scriptures), scrolls, books and other study materials and by Tibetan devotees as a personal altar/prayer table. It is simply decorated with painted florals on vines and a fruit offering bowl symbolizing the flowering of enlightenment and opening of the heart.
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$450.00 Original price was: $450.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
Ht: 5.5” Dia: 6” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Shiwan stoneware peaches and lotuses on footed bowl auspicious symbols associated with springtime, fertility, long healthy life for many generations and therefore are propitious gifts for birthdays, especially for the elderly.
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$375.00 Original price was: $375.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
H: 8.75″ DIA: 6.75 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Shiwan stoneware glazed sculptures of fruit symbolizing life and new beginnings to place on temple or home altar. They augment plates of fresh stacked fresh fruit to honor ancestors. These pears symbolize long life.
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$875.00
This rare and beautiful cadence drum was used in a Chinese temple to help monks and chanters think about the meaning of the texts they recite. Carved fish scales and two fish heads embrace a pearl carved on the handle to symbolize unanimity and accord. The fish pair is similar to the popular pair of…
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$425.00
Ht: 14.5” W: 3.5” D: 2.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S!
This rare vintage carving was probably made for a home shrine or small rice field temple dedicated to Dewi Sri, the Balinese Goddess of Rice. The hole near the bottom indicates it may have been part of a larger decorative scheme.
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$335.00 Original price was: $335.00.$225.00Current price is: $225.00.
H: 16.25 ” Dia: 8 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Given its size this smaller early 20th century Hsun-ok with simple sophisticated designs may have served as a decorative piece with parallel rows of intricate triangular and beaded borders.
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$785.00
H: 15″ W: 9″ D: 9″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Vintage “crowns” called an ile ori the “house of the head,” were cowrie shell shrine made to show gratitude for and recognition of the power of the head and manifest Yoruba ideas of individuality and authority. Not meant to be worn they are often placed on altars for prayer and divination and can be a symbol of a Yoruba deity. This headdress with an impressive design was included in the San Francisco International Airport, “Crowning Achievements” exhibition in April-August, 1994. It comes with a Lucite stand.
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