Metalwork

  • Antique Dhorka Brass Measuring Bowl, India (9500C-VAH) $155

    Antique Dhorka Brass Measuring Bowl, India (9500C-VAH) $155

    $155.00
    H: 3.75” Dia: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This antique brass vessel was a daily measuring bowl for rice or other grains made by Dhokra metal smiths from Eastern India using the same lost wax casting process for over 4000 years. Extremely labor intensive and time consuming, each piece is one-of-a-kind. Dhokra items are beautifully and intricately decorated with simple uncomplicated forms.  This charming piece has a handle for hanging with horizontal striations and downward striated triangles with a smooth patina from age and use. This type of bowl was regarded as a symbol of the Hindu goddess Lakshmi and was prized by villagers who could afford them for puja home worship and placed on a home altar.

  • Sale! Antique Fulani  Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3159)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3159)

    Original price was: $110.00.Current price is: $90.00.
    H: 2.75” W: 3.125” Thick: 0.375” Circum. 8.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Antique Fulani manilla from Mali or Niger, thin C-shaped, rounded smooth surfaces inside divided into 6 sections with incised crosshatch and linear designs. Fine patina, excellent condition signs of use consistent with its age.

  • Sale! Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3146)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3146)

    Original price was: $170.00.Current price is: $145.00.
    H: 2.75”  W: 3”  Thick: 0.5” Circum: 8” |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Antique thick, rounded and smooth Fulani manilla etched with intricate geometric designs at the ends and apex.

     

  • Sale! Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3147)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3147)

    Original price was: $165.00.Current price is: $135.00.
    H: 2.875” W: 3” Thick: 0.625” Circum: 8.5” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Fine Fulani round manilla bracelet with parallel ridges over most of surface resembling a twisted metal pieces, topped with  extended flat boss/knob in center.

  • Sale! Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3150)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3150)

    Original price was: $185.00.Current price is: $145.00.
    H: 2.75”  W: 2.875”  Thick: 0.5” Circum: 8.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Antique thick metal manilla, smooth rounded outer surface with deeply etched and stamped traditional designs of  triangles, horizontal bands, circles, facets and groves, flat ends.  Excellent condition with fine patina.

  • Sale! Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3155)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3155)

    Original price was: $195.00.Current price is: $155.00.
    H: 2.625”  W: 3”  Thick: 0.25” Circum. 8.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Found in Nigeria, this large C-shaped  beautiful antique manilla has rounded smooth surface with fine etched linear design, circles, swirls, stipples, and V-shapes. Fine aged patina, comes with wood and metal stand.

  • Sale! Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3165)

    Antique Fulani Manilla Currency Bracelet, West Africa (3165)

    Original price was: $295.00.Current price is: $225.00.
    Ht: 3.125”  W: 3.5”  Thickness: 1”| FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Antique finely-crafted, heavy and massive antique horseshoe-shaped currency  bracelet, elaborately designed with intertwined twisted strands, 11 faceted ends incised with circle and diamond designs.

  • Antique Hindu Garuda Prayer Bell, India (9545XLC) $295

    Antique Hindu Garuda Prayer Bell, India (9545XLC) $295

    $295.00
    H: 10”  Dia: 3.75” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!

    This Hindu prayer bell was likely placed on a home or temple altar and used in daily puja rituals. It has a smooth and undecorated body with only incised parallel rings circling plain surfaces and is topped by a Garuda pair sheltered by Naga hoods. Garuda, Vishnu’s mythical winged bird  mount, and Naga, a seven-headed hooded serpent, are natural enemies but when they are represented together, they symbolizes  peace, a very appropriate adornment for the tranquility and serenity elicited by the pleasing sounds of a prayer bell.

  • Sale! Antique Hindu Peacock Oil Lamp, H: 13" India (9526)

    Antique Hindu Peacock Oil Lamp, H: 13″ India (9526)

    Original price was: $365.00.Current price is: $325.00.
    H: 13″    W:  8.5″     D: 4.75″    |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Graceful peacock oil lamp for Hindu ritual home altar prayers signifying purity, virtuosity, goodness, good luck. Large peacock is reservoir for oil, smaller peacock the lamp’s lid.  Peacocks symbolize love, joy, peace and harmony.

  • Sale! Antique Kota Manilla Currency/Slave Bracelet, West Africa (3166)

    Antique Kota Manilla Currency/Slave Bracelet, West Africa (3166)

    Original price was: $115.00.Current price is: $90.00.
    H: 2.875” W: 3.25” Width: 1.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    This antique manilla is made by the Kota in the northeastern region of Gabon and Congo. A thin wide C-shaped bracelet with an elaborate five section design, each section has unique designs with long striations, grooved crosshatches, long triangles and angled designs. In very good condition with minor losses, pitting and scratches, its rough surface inside is consistent with its age and use and comes with a wood and metal stand.

  • Antique Kumkum Container, Nepal (1278XAE) $295

    Antique Kumkum Container, Nepal (1278XAE) $295

    $295.00

    A kumkum container, also known as a sindor box is a small decorative holder for kumkum powder, a red or orange-red powder traditionally used in Hindu rituals and ceremonies. This container is brass with a foot with lotus leaves on the sides and floral patterns on the bottom and a decorative rim on the cup. These boxes are part of daily prayers (puja), festivals, weddings, and other auspicious occasions. The powder is used to apply a bindi – a forehead dot decoration associated with the third eye, representing wisdom and insight. While traditionally worn by women, and often signifying marriage, bindis are increasingly worn by men as well. 

    Antique bronze kumkum container use to hold tika power applied to women’s forehead during puja to preserve spiritual energy.  andhold is as part of Hindu puja used for Hindu social and religious markings. Kumkum is dried and made into a paste combined with small amounts of slaked lime sometimes embellished with a few grains of rice that turns the turmeric reddish and is used to apply a tikka – a small dot applied on the forehead between the eyebrows. This spot is said to be the focal point of wisdom and concentration and is where the spiritual third eye is centered. Hindu’s believe this is the sixth of the body’s seven chakras or energy vortexes where an energy channel opens humans up to the spiritual and the divine. The tikka is said to prevent energy loss, preserve spiritual energy, and enhance concentration. Hindu religious gatherings and puja begin with the application of a tikka.  Women from certain Hindu sects wear a tikka as a sign they are married,

  • Antique Lakshmi Oil Lamp, India (9508D-PBE) SPECIAL PRICE

    Antique Lakshmi Oil Lamp, India (9508D-PBE) SPECIAL PRICE

    $245.00
    H: 5″  W: 3.25″  D:3.875″  | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    This brass oil lamp diya is decorated with an image on front and back of Lakshmi seated on a lotus, full-breasted and broad hipped, beneficently smiling and being lustrated (showered by water) by elephants, symbolizing rain clouds bringing water and life to the land and that unwavering effort to adhere to spiritual teachings and governed by wisdom and purity leads to both material and spiritual prosperity.

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