Tribal & Folk Art

  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Kitchen God and Wife, China(16850)

    Antique/Vintage Kitchen God and Wife, China(16850)

    Original price was: $625.00.Current price is: $425.00.
    H: 8.25″  W: 3.125″  D: 2.25″ | FREE SHIPPING!

    This Kitchen God and his Wife is posed as streamlined virtual mirror-images and fashioned with a general quality relying on paint rather than deep carving for details. They sit on backless chairs on a plinth, with simplified gold officials’ robes with long color sashes, and well-carved black and gilt head gear. The wife’s face is smooth, generalized and the male face has a more deeply carved surface and painted highlights.

  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Male Burmese Dancer Gold Sarong (T055)

    Antique/Vintage Male Burmese Dancer Gold Sarong (T055)

    Original price was: $950.00.Current price is: $595.00.
    H: 22″ W: 8.5″  D: 6.5″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.

    Lyrical wood provincial Burmese male dancer with drum in gilded Burmese sarong with glass and sequins.  Set high on a transparent Lucite base, he appears to float in motion.

     

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Rangda Mask on Museum Stand, Indonesia, Bali (1310)

    Antique/Vintage Rangda Mask on Museum Stand, Indonesia, Bali (1310)

    Original price was: $975.00.Current price is: $775.00.
    H: 8.26″  W: 7.25″ D: 6″   |     CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    Dance mask of Rangda, sacred Balinese demon-queen with 2 upper and lower fangs, scary teeth, jagged facial elements,  menacing eyes,  deep red. Featured in Spiderman 2002 movie on museum quality metal stand.

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Silver Pendant Ganesh with Parvati, India (22059)

    Antique/Vintage Silver Pendant Ganesh with Parvati, India (22059)

    Original price was: $195.00.Current price is: $150.00.
    Ht: 2.75”. W: 2.5” D: 0.25”   1.3oz.     |     FREE SHIPPING WITHIN THE CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Rare silver pendant of joyful dancing Ganesh with Parvati framed within a betel shape with scalloped edges. Probably crafted and sold at a temple, it was worn for protection rather than good luck.

  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Sweetmeats Confection-Mold, China (19434)

    Antique/Vintage Sweetmeats Confection-Mold, China (19434)

    Original price was: $425.00.Current price is: $225.00.
    H: 16.5″ W: 10.5″ D: 2.25″ CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING QUOTE

    This finely detailed hardwood mold was used to make sweetmeats confections, perhaps mooncakes for the Chinese Autumn Moon Festival. It is covered with deeply carved propitious symbols for marital harmony, sons and successful endeavors:  a four clawed dragon for fertility, two ducks symbolizing marital bliss and harmony, one atop a carp for conjugal bliss and achieving noble rank and a boat with a sail for making all this easy sailing. This would be a great accessory or gift (especially for weddings) to spice up any kitchen.

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  • Sale! Antique/Vintage Taoist Shaman with Taotie on Hat, China (7503)

    Antique/Vintage Taoist Shaman with Taotie on Hat, China (7503)

    Original price was: $395.00.Current price is: $295.00.
    H: 13.6 ”  W: 7″ D: 5.5″   |    FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Taoist priest or shaman with a double-winged hat with a mythical taotie as a warning against greed and excess. His left hand in the  Sword Gesture to cast out evil and right holding a tael symbolizing wealth and good fortune

  • Sale! Deified Mandarin Official Holding His Sleeve (19011)

    Deified Mandarin Official Holding His Sleeve (19011)

    Original price was: $395.00.Current price is: $225.00.
    Ht: 9.125” W: 4”  D: 2” |   $10 SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    With his thumb grasping his flowing decorative sleeve, this ancestor was a mid-to-high ranking  wealthy and spiritually powerful.Mandarin Official. The serene, smiling expression and downcast eyes incorporate Buddhist and Taoist traditions to instill feelings of spirituality and other worldliness.

     

  • Sale! Framed Antique/Vintage Katagami Stencil, Japan

    Framed Antique/Vintage Katagami Stencil, Japan

    Original price was: $225.00.Current price is: $195.00.
    H: 18″ W: 22.5″  | :       |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    Katagami are used to decorate Japanese textiles. Six hexagonal shapes with intertwining triple-line forms on top and a single line closing its shape create a dynamic decorative scheme. This beautiful design includes symbolic hexagons, trees and seven-point stars. Well framed with mat board and non-reflective glass.

  • Sale! Framed Beadwork Tapestry, India H: 30" (1426)

    Framed Beadwork Tapestry, India H: 30″ (1426)

    Original price was: $495.00.Current price is: $395.00.
    H: 30″    W:  29.5″   D: 2.125″   |  CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING

    Vintage beadwork tapestry with many auspicious Hindu symbols: Tree of Life, Monkey God Hanuman, a horse and pair of peacocks together symbolizing the cycle of life, spiritual growth, enlightenment, divine wisdom and beauty. Used in many Indian celebrations, they are also placed at home doorways and thresholds symbolizing warmth, positivity, and protection and invite blessings to the home.

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  • Sale! Han Dynasty Bronze Dagger-Axe (ge), China (3154A-BHK)

    Han Dynasty Bronze Dagger-Axe (ge), China (3154A-BHK)

    Original price was: $395.00.Current price is: $325.00.
    H: 4.375 ”    W: 7.5 ”    D: .24 ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    Han dynasty  dagger-axes (ge) like this were ancient military weapons.The dagger-shaped blade was mounted to a pole or shaft and secured using a shank and the holes on the two sections of its body. Their use ended with the advent of chariots and tightly packed military formations. He piece comes with a uniquely fashioned box.

  • Sale! Han Dynasty Bronze Dragon Belt Hook, China (1095BLE)

    Han Dynasty Bronze Dragon Belt Hook, China (1095BLE)

    Original price was: $485.00.Current price is: $350.00.
    H: 4.1″    W: 1 ”    D:.625 ”    |  FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!

    In the Han, belt hooks became a symbol of wealth, high status and power hung vertically from belt holes used in life and buried with the deceased for his journey to the afterlife . Ornamented with incised decoration this beautiful piece is dragon shaped with beautiful verdigris deposits.

  • Sale! Kuchi Necklace  3 Vintage Pendants on Beaded Chain, Afghanistan (3029)

    Kuchi Necklace 3 Vintage Pendants on Beaded Chain, Afghanistan (3029)

    Original price was: $175.00.Current price is: $95.00.

     

    Chain Length:  17″   |    FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.

    One -of-a-kind necklace made with vintage Kuchi tribal pendant with elaborate large pendant inset with lapis and 2 additional pendants with red glass, all with dangles to create jingles for dancers. Suspended on hand strung beaded ornamental chain as a unique and colorful  fashion statement.

     

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