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$15,000.00
H: 75″ W: 27″ D: 12″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
The creation of renowned French-American multimedia artist and sculptor Pascal Giacomini, Giaco GuitarTM Sculptures are uniquely playable works of art highly prized for both their musical and artistic merits. Technically, they are hybrid oil-can, solid body electric guitars.
This custom-made “Gateway” guitar features the iconic dark blue and yellow colored oil can of Gateway Motor Oil, a notable American oil company from the 1940s and 50s before the industry was consolidated. This is item number 4 out of an eventual collection of 100 Giaco Guitars™ made by the artist. Each item in the collection is a one-of-a-kind, impossible to reproduce creation.
Specs for this Guitar Sculpture include:
- Swamp Ash wood resonating chamber assembled under pressure (a signature Giacomini invention)
- Custom shop Telecaster neck
- Lindy Fralin pickups
- Gabriel Tenorio strings
- Hipshot Grip-Lock tuners
- Modified Telecaster gear
- Guitar is plek’d (expertly aligned for optimum playability)
Testimonial:
“Neck feels great. Great playability. Great sound. The Guitar gives you confidence to experiment. As you get past your comfortable licks and chords, you start playing things you’ve never played before. The guitar invites you to experiment and search for ideas. Guitars that enlighten your play. It’s genius that you don’t need a stand.”
– Mark Christian, Music composer, Studio musician, Songwriter
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$1,585.00 Original price was: $1,585.00.$1,347.25Current price is: $1,347.25.
H: 16.5” W: 6.5” D: 6.5” |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This beautiful and rare wood gilt Nanhai Guanyin sits in meditation creating an aura of peace and serenity. With a lobed crown containing images of the 5 Wisdom Buddhas, she blends Mahayana practices with Hindu and Vedic mystical concepts which were adopted in Vajrayana Buddhism. As Wisdom Buddhas are rarely displayed in Nanhai Guanyin images, this radiant image is a significant carving.
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$2,100.00 Original price was: $2,100.00.$1,785.00Current price is: $1,785.00.
H: 11.75” W: 12.25” D: 7.5” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
Cocoon jars were mingqi made for placement in tombs to comfort the deceased on their journey to and in their afterlife. An elixir of Immortality made from mulberry leaves or their ashes was placed inside for the deceased to drink and transmigrate into the world of the beyond. Ovoid in shape to resemble a silkworm cocoon, ajar rests on a small trumpet-shaped foot and has a narrow neck and a wide lip at its mouth. Painted after firing with vertical bands dividing it into panels, swirling cloud scrolls, and circular “eye” motifs at each end, this beautiful vessel is in excellent condition for its age with expected paint losses, scrapes, and dirt adhesions.
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$15,000.00
H: 74″ W: 16″ D: 18″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
The creation of renowned French-American multimedia artist and sculptor Pascal Giacomini, Giaco GuitarTM Sculptures are uniquely playable works of art highly prized for both their musical and artistic merits. Technically, they are hybrid oil-can, solid body electric guitars.
This custom-made “OK Oil” guitar features the striking black and gold colored oil can of OK Motor Oil, a prominent American oil company from the 1940s and 50s before the industry was consolidated. This is item number 7 out of an eventual collection of 100 Giaco Guitars™ made by the artist. Each item in the collection is a one-of-a-kind, impossible to reproduce creation.
Specs for this Guitar Sculpture include:
- Mahogany wood resonating chamber assembled under pressure (a signature Giacomini invention)
- Custom shop Telecaster neck
- Lindy Fralin pickups
- Gabriel Tenorio strings
- Hipshot Grip-Lock tuners
- Modified Telecaster gear
- Guitar is plek’d (expertly aligned for optimum playability)
Testimonial:
“The Guitar works perfect. It resonates. It sustains all the way up the neck. It warms up when you turn up the volume. A bold, strong sound. A very versatile instrument. Very comfortable to play. Makes you inspired. Great neck access. All the sculptural elements add tone. You get a sustained punch. The guitar is very warm, yet crisp.”
– Sal Esquer, Master Guitar Tech at Sam Ash Hollywood for 20 years.
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$875.00 Original price was: $875.00.$743.75Current price is: $743.75.
H: 12.5″ W: 5.25″ D: 3.375″ | EMAIL OR CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING COST
Wood opera figures are rare and difficult to carve as they wear multicolor costumes with attached trappings and unique headgear and have complex painted faces providing viewers insight into their character. This is a simplified official and his wife with uniform coloring and a unifying lacquer coat seated on pedestals reflect the consummate carving skills in fashioning the many details reminiscent of opera costumes.
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$875.00 Original price was: $875.00.$743.75Current price is: $743.75.
H: 12” W:11.75” D: 9.5” | CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING QUOTE OR EMAIL [email protected]
Cadence drums in the form of carved pairs of fish are used by monks and lay people in the Mahayana Buddhist tradition to create a cadence and chanting rhythm during rituals when reciting and memorizing sutras, mantras, and other Buddhist texts. This rare beautiful drum is held by its handle composed of a pair of fish surrounding a pearl symbolizing unity and harmony and struck on the side with a wood mallot. Wear on its rear side indicates years of use.
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$650.00 Original price was: $650.00.$552.50Current price is: $552.50.
H: 17” W: 5” D: 5” | FOR SHIPPING quoteCONTACT US AT 213-568-3030 or email [email protected]
This rare wood carving of the Buddha as an infant is remarkable because of the way it has survived. As with many antique Chinese wood carvings, there is extensive deterioration from age/insect damage. Although there is total loss to the arms, legs and torso, it is virtually untouched from the neck up. This is a piece for lovers of wood, with the body worn to a delicately smooth but irregular surface. It is probably more striking than original piece, as its erosion shows the random miracle of chance and is highlighted on a frosted acrylic base. .
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$4,800.00 Original price was: $4,800.00.$4,080.00Current price is: $4,080.00.
H: 29.5” W: 7.75” D: 5.25” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This magnificent 19th century Kerala, South Indian carving highlights the extraordinary abilities of local artists to combine Indian with western artistic styles and techniques. Joseph stands slightly elongated in an altered European contrapposto pose, depicted as light-skinned, blue-eyed, bearded man with western features. Likewise the infant Christ with blue eyes has a child’s smile, hands are crossed at the chest, dressed in a flowing white garment.The combined tenderness, softness, and strength make this a powerful and vibrant yet highly approachable image.
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$4,200.00 Original price was: $4,200.00.$3,570.00Current price is: $3,570.00.
This statue reflects the Tantric Buddhism (Vajrayana or Esoteric) tradition involving mystical concepts and practices, elaborate rituals and a strong hierarchical structure that departs from mainstream Buddhism. Many Chinese Buddhist,…
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$1,375.00 Original price was: $1,375.00.$1,168.75Current price is: $1,168.75.
SOLD H: 23.25″ W: 9.25″ D: 6.25″
This Guanyin image was probably one of a pair of images along with the Taoist Queen Mother of the West (16206A-WACK) placed together on a community, local temple or home altar. Created by the same local artisan, they are provincial rather than imperial style having a humble, unadorned and simple rendering, seated on backless thrones, hands covered by a ritual cloth, uncharacteristic of Guanyin but common for Taoist goddesses. Both wear layered robes and a high pointed crown – the Queen Mother’s centered by a phoenix and Guanyin’s by a flower surrounded by symbolic aureole of radiating light. Both have soft blissful smiles with eyes cast slightly downwards to engage their devotees. Initially covered in bright polychrome colors, there are traces of surviving red, yellow, green, brown and black.
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$3,900.00
H: 14” W: 9.375” D: 7.25” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This fine rare Ming/Qing carving depicts Shakyamuni Buddha in meditation is made from fine dense wood with much of its iridescent pigmentation. He is masterfully carved with a serene, benevolent and pensive expression wearing plain but elegantly carved monks robes. This spiritual piece is a small yet very powerful image.
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$1,195.00 Original price was: $1,195.00.$1,015.75Current price is: $1,015.75.
One of the most popular Mahayana Pure Land Buddhism depictions of Guanyin, especially during the Ming and Qing dynasties, is Nanhai Guanyin shown here symbolically on a stylized rocky outcrop…
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