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$850.00 Original price was: $850.00.$722.50Current price is: $722.50.
SOLD H: 18.25” W: 9” D: 1.875” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This intricately hand carved antique Chinese hardwood confection mold was used to create mooncakes to celebrate the Mid Autumn Moon Festival. The five separate molds are references to the Jade Rabbit, the mythical hare residing on the moon who creates the elixir of mortality and eats Osmanthus leaves. Filled with symbolic references, it is an intriguing and beautiful piece of art.
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$110.00 Original price was: $110.00.$93.50Current price is: $93.50.
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Manillas were commonly used by the Yoruba in the Coastal regions of Nigeria and along the Niger River. This thin simple round C-shaped manilla is decorated with incised linear designs on the outer round surface: it is centered on the top with parallel zig zag lines between a set of four parallel indentations which frame it. Each end also has zig zag indented striations. Simple, yet elegant, the bracelet is in very good condition, with normal wear, and pitting that verify its age and use. It comes with a wood metal stand.
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$630.00 Original price was: $630.00.$535.50Current price is: $535.50.
SOLD H: 8” W: 10.35” D: 2.124” | FREE International SHIPPING!
Utilitarian kitchenware was an integral part of a communal feast called a potlatch, a traditional feast central to many cultures of indigenous peoples of the Canadian Pacific Northwest Coast including the Haida who have existed for over 17,000 years. This antique thin, large and elegant, and boldly decorated Haida spoon is well designed with motifs like the whale’s tail, the eye, and a feather that imparts great visual and symbolic strength. The style and coloring of Northwest Coast Canadian art is so bold and unique, their pieces are readily recognized.
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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$335.75Current price is: $335.75.
H: 21″ W: 8″ D: 4.75″ | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CONTACT US AT 213-568-3030
This traditional African hammered iron gong is elegantly shaped like a flaring bell. Heat riveted, a forging process joining two metal pieces together, it was made by Congolese tribal people. Made with 5 parallel lines of 5 decorative round bulges on both sides, it was often held using a raffia handle and beaten using sticks covered with rubber at its end. Originally a ritual instrument, they were also beaten to call members of special restricted societies to meetings and were a symbol of wealth, prestige, and influence.
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$375.00 Original price was: $375.00.$284.75Current price is: $284.75.
This rug was made in China for Vajrayana/Tibetan Buddhists who were taught this form of Buddhism by Tibetan monks invited there to teach Tibetan Buddhism. Rugs like this were made…
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$110.00 Original price was: $110.00.$0.00Current price is: $0.00.
H: 7.625″ W: 6.125″ D: 3.375″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
Most jauk keras (strong, scary) masks of a giant are often red or orange to reinforce a volatile dance with jerky movements. This jauk manis (good, sweet) mask dance is a more controlled, regulated and enacted with more calm and human movements. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it is in excellent condition with expected minor scratches and paint losses.
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$165.00 Original price was: $165.00.$140.25Current price is: $140.25.
H: 12.7” W: 3.375” D: 3”| FREE SHIPPING!
This mask (Topeng Begul) reflects two themes in Javanese mask theater: it is comical, foolish and ludicrous with a silly bulbous clown nose and also a demon with animal teeth, fangs, bulging eyes and a stark black and white design. “Jatiguwi” is written on the inside of the mask identified by the Javanese merchant who sold it in the 1970s as the clown’s name that we were not able to confirm.
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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 7.25” W: 11.5” D: 1.75” | FREE SHIPPING IN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This animated scene of this 10-12th century tile depicts the traditional Chinese Lion Dance performed at Chinese New Year, weddings, other important events and to honor guests, bring prosperity, happiness, good luck and ward off evil spirits. During the Song Dynasty tiles adorned the wall of government and important buildings as well as tombs with depictions of celebrations, mythology and deities and often included mythical animals, plants, vegetation and other auspicious objects.
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$485.00 Original price was: $485.00.$412.25Current price is: $412.25.
H: 6.25” W: 10.125” D: 2.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This Song dynasty pottery brick tile depicts a pixiu, a mythical and a powerful feng shui symbol of wealth that brings money and good fortune and protect people from losing wealth. This fantastic winged creature has a dragon’s tail and head and a lion’s with an intensely angry expression to protect its master and his wealth and possessions. There is a rare handprint of the artisan who created it on the rear.
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$475.00 Original price was: $475.00.$403.75Current price is: $403.75.
H: 9” W: 9” D: 2.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This thick decorative Song brick tile portrays a seated female musician holding a lute in a hall with attendant on each side and third person in the distance framed in a decorative wide border with a pointed ogee arch. Since most ancient buildings with these pieces used un-reinforced fired construction, they were subject to disasters and few survived intact.
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$445.00 Original price was: $445.00.$378.25Current price is: $378.25.
H: 6.5” W: 8.125 D: 1.5” | FREE SHIPPING
This ancient Song dynasty tile is likely a memorial tile as it portrays an official, hands in a farewell gesture looking up with devotion to his wife or mother ascending toward heavens on a cloud. A very striking and emotive scene, it would be a great wall piece with an appropriate mount.
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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 7” W: 5” D: 2.75” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This Song earthenware tile depicts the legendary scholar, poet and alchemist Taoist deity Lu Dongbin, one of the Eight Immortals, who sought to discover the elixir of immortality and used charms still used in Chinese homes to prevent illness and ward off evil. He and his fly whisk are auspicious symbols of longevity and a wish for immortality.
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