Deities & Legends

  • Guanti, God of Justice on a Hǒu, China (16325BEM)

    Guanti, God of Justice on a Hǒu, China (16325BEM)

    $345.00

    This masterfully and elaborately carved image represents the legendary Guan Ti (also Guandi, Guan Yu), the Chinese God of War and Justice wearing a celestial scarf.  This most popular Chinese historical military hero is all things to all men, prayed to for protection and prosperity. He is generally portrayed as here wearing a soldier’s uniform…

  • Sale! Taoist Queen Mother of the West with a 3 Phoenix Headdress #16804BCK

    Taoist Queen Mother of the West with a 3 Phoenix Headdress #16804BCK

    Original price was: $625.00.Current price is: $395.00.
    H:14.75″    W:  4″   D:  4.5″     |     CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Antique Xiwangmu puppet head with 3 phoenixes in crown, traditional Qing head ware worn by the Empress for official occasions, ceremonies. Acrylic stand.

     

     

  • Sale! Rare Antique Yixing Teapot with Scene from Peking Opera, China #1148BKE

    Rare Antique Yixing Teapot with Scene from Peking Opera, China #1148BKE

    Original price was: $975.00.Current price is: $695.00.
    H: 6”  W: 8.5”  D: 6.125” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Gorgeous, rare antique Yixing teapot with brown wash, bright painted enamel scene from Peking opera Romance of Three Kingdoms. Floral are wish for long and healthy life, perfect metaphor for sharing tea loved ones. Kiln seals in body, bottom,  lid. For decoration only.

  • SOLD Antique Queen Mother of the West on Raised Pedestal, China (16206A-WACK)

    SOLD Antique Queen Mother of the West on Raised Pedestal, China (16206A-WACK)

    $1,375.00
    SOLD  |  H: 23.25″  W: 9.25″  D: 6.5″

    This Queen Mother of the West, the highest ranking female Taoist deity was probably displayed as a pair along a statue of Guanyin, the most significant Buddhism female (Guanyin on a Lotus Pedestal (16206B) highlighting the importance and similarity of these revered female images  Like the Guanyin, the Queen Mother’s delicately carved face has half closed eyes, serene composure mouth with a hint of a smile, which is more Buddhist than Taoist. Her headdress, centered by her iconic phoenix, rests under a hood extending to her shoulders and back. She wears a high collared three-layered Taoist robe, her hands covered by a ritual cloth.

  • Vintage Hand Carved Dewi Sri, Hindu Rice Goddess, Indonesia, Bali (3045DLK) $265

    Vintage Hand Carved Dewi Sri, Hindu Rice Goddess, Indonesia, Bali (3045DLK) $265

    $265.00
    H: 14.5″  W: 6.625″  D: 2.375″ | FREE SHIPPING

    This very fine and very beautiful vintage woodcarving of Dewi Sri , Devi Sri or Sridevi in Java, the Balinese Hindu goddess of rice and prosperity, is in excellent condition considering it is a much used vintage piece. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it reflects the offerings made to Dewi Sri placed in the rice fields to protect the rice harvest. She is depicted here as a young, attractive and fertile woman wearing a striking, highly detailed and decorative headdress similar to those worn in Balinese dances leaving her upper forehead bare and framing her oval face with high curved eyebrows, wide-open eyes and beautiful pursed lips. With its flat back it can be mounted on a wall.

  • Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125

    $125.00

    This ethnic and folk-art Bali legendary court minister (topeng patih) is performed in a special mask dance named Topeng Panjegan, as only one dancer interprets five different characters wearing full face masks preventing speech. Patih manis (Sweet Minister) is often the first solo dance after a gamelan orchestra introduction, and this patih keras (strong minister)…

  • Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-2FBE) $105

    Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-2FBE) $105

    $105.00

    All ethnic mask (topeng) dances in Bali are accompanied with music from a gamelan percussion orchestra as are dramas and other entertainments considered as offerings to honor, please and attract the favor of the gods and ancestral spirits. In the west dancers put on masks to pretend they are someone else. Balinese dancers become the…

  • Sale! Vintage Terracotta Shiva Lingam with Parvati, H: 8", India (11325)

    Vintage Terracotta Shiva Lingam with Parvati, H: 8″, India (11325)

    Original price was: $165.00.Current price is: $110.00.
    H:  8″ W:  6″  D: 6″    |      FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    This colorful terracotta image of Shiva and Parvati is aniconic (symbolic) and figurative. Shiva’s is a symbolic lingham (phallus) and Parvati a deity. Together they represent the union of  masculine and feminine, thus all existence

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