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![16337 8 Ag boy buff bk](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/16337-8-Ag-boy-buff-bk--300x321.jpg)
$885.00
H: 14.25” W: 7.125” D: 4.875” | CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING
To pay homage and respect to one’s ancestors, Chinese rural families commissioned images to honor and protect family members, and in some instances, their domestic and farm animals as seen in this exceptional, fine and rare carving. Intricately carved from one piece of wood, it depicts a Taoist official holding a hu tablet on top above the “Spring Ox” accompanied by the “Herd Box”, who together perform an ancient agricultural rituals at the end of each winter to wake the earth up so that spring can arrive.
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![9509B 2 nandi LOOK L](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/9509B-2-nandi-LOOK-L--300x315.png)
$155.00
H: 3.5″ W: 1.75″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING!
This finely cast antique figurine with finely articulated features portrays Nandi with jewels sitting recumbent on a high-tiered throne. Kneeling in reverence to serve Lord Shiva he is a symbol of purity and strength. Small figurines were placed on home shrines with other deities and significant family items. Made using lost wax it is a one-of-a-kind piece
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![2 9510 Nandi FRONT R copy](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/2-9510-Nandi-FRONT-R-copy-scaled-300x300.jpg)
$395.00
H: 3.25” W: 1.375” D: 2.5” | FREE SHIPPING
This small antique brass Nandi is exquisitely handcrafted with a wonderfully aged patina. He sits recumbent on a raised rectangular platform. Delicately incised with decorative details delineating the head, neck, snout and body, his right leg and tail are sinuous, graceful ornaments rather than defining features. His head is at a 45-degree with lyrically curved horns in contrast to most versions with horns extending backwards. This Nandi is based on a South Indian cow whose humpback is emphasized here by two parallel lines covering it as if is part of a saddle or another ornament feature.
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![19405 1a BB back lion3026 copy](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/19405-1a-BB-back-lion3026-copy-scaled-300x300.jpg)
$850.00
H: 9″ W: 3.625″ D: 3.5″ | FREE UPS SHIPPING!
This rare carving of the infant Buddha with well defined features is clearly a provincial rendering that uniquely departs from traditional renderings. He holds a monk’s begging bowl as he points to the heavens and he stands on a lion’s head, as he is the lion of the Shakya clan. Given its small size, it was probably displayed on a home altar.
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![2 16000 Mon Bx copy](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/2-16000-Mon-Bx-copy-300x300.jpg)
$325.00 Original price was: $325.00.$295.00Current price is: $295.00.
H: 6.375″ W: 10.75″ D: 7.125″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental U.S.!
This charming carved and lacquered multi-use box opens from the top and has a side drawer with a metal pull. It is decorated with auspicious carved symbols for a good, healthy, prosperous and long life Carved fu lion heads with flowing manes adorn the front and plum blossoms and a fan the front and frame. Painted calligraphic phrases refer to a wish for many sons. It was likely a wedding gift to newlyweds and would still be great for that purpose.
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![3 19074 6a red rt copy 2](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/3-19074-6a-red-rt-copy-2-300x300.jpg)
$995.00
H: 12″ D: 7″ D: 7.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This very fine pair of antique carved males fu lions represents the dual nature of these mythical animals: as protective images they are powerful and fierce, as Buddhist images they are whimsical with smiling faces, dangling tongues, hanging ears and bushy tails. They are extremely well carved with harnesses and bells around their necks, detailed manes and tails on high intricately decorated bases to signal their importance. Perfect for enhancing feng shui in a home or office, large finely decorative wood pairs like this are extremely hard to find.
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![4 E331PCE cr raised cent front lean R](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/4-E331PCE-cr-raised-cent-front-lean-R-300x300.png)
$175.00
Ht: 2.125″ W: 1.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This simple elegant Ethiopian Cross neck pendant is a plain Latin Cross, the universal symbol of Christianity, surmounted by a raised rounded cross in the center. With a distinct and massive feel, its soft edges and matted surface from years of wear impart a feeling of grace and warmth. Made using the lost-wax process, each is a one-of-a-kind work of art.
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![16777B 2 Apl Grn Grdn Seat Front turn 1yes](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/16777B-2-Apl-Grn-Grdn-Seat-Front-turn-1yes--300x300.jpg)
$1,275.00
H: 19” W: 15” D: 14” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
Fashioned in a traditional drum/barrel shape, this unusual and ornately decorated antique garden stool is covered with auspicious symbols, and the positive energy from them is believed to be absorbed by the lucky individual who sits on them. Highlighted with pierced decorations and circular reliefs the upper borders of the body of this beautiful stoneware stool is covered with four bands of apple green, white, brown and cobalt blue – an expensive and infrequently used pigment. The bottom portion is covered in a mustard yellow glaze with pierced and relief images of double coins, tao tieh and florals.
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![16370 1a GY on Hou](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/16370-1a-GY-on-Hou-scaled-300x300.jpg)
$895.00 Original price was: $895.00.$675.00Current price is: $675.00.
H: 9.5” W: 2.25” D: 6.5” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This remarkable figurine is Guanyin on her mythical mount, the Hǒu, guardian master of the universe and model for righteousness and morality who symbolizes bringing forth peace and prosperity.The round orb in its mouth representing a pearl can be rubbed for good luck. It is one of our most unique and favorite Buddhist statues, mounted on a frosted Acrylic stand.
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![11298A 2 hp tlt rt copy](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/11298A-2-hp-tlt-rt-copy-300x300.jpg)
$195.00 Original price was: $195.00.$150.00Current price is: $150.00.
H: 10.5” W: 3.25” D: 2.375” | FREE SHIPPING within continental U.S. !
This elegant heddle-pulley carved from a single piece of Burmese teak is topped by a hamsa, a goose-like bird and a sacred Buddhist symbol of wisdom mentioned in the Jakata tales about the life of the Buddha. It is believed that auspicious symbolic animal images protected the weaver, assured quality weaving, and pleased the gods and spirits. This antique piece is wonderfully weathered from time and use.
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![9545XLC 2D Garuda Bell Front Top15](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/9545XLC-2D-Garuda-Bell-Front-Top15-300x300.png)
$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.
Martin Lerner and Steven Kossak, The Lotus Transcendent: Indian and Southeast Asian Art from the Samuel Eilenberg Collection, New York, Harry Abrams, 1991.
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![9526 2 Rit Ves l tlt side](https://vanishingarts.gallery/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/9526-2-Rit-Ves-l-tlt-side--300x325.png)
$365.00
H: 13″ W: 8.5″ D: 4.75″ | FREE SHIPPING within Continental U.S.!
This graceful brass oil lamp is topped by two peacocks, a large one that held oil and a smaller one decorated with striated lines sitting high on a thin mount with a spiral base. It was used for Hindu prayer rituals (puja) in the home or at temples and for devotional worship. This fine lost wax lamp with a soft patina is a one-of-a-kind piece. Often used in Hindu religious sculptures, peacocks have a strong religious tradition and represent harmony, joy and beauty and the time cycle.
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