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$650.00 Original price was: $650.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
H: 9.75″ W: 7″ D: 6″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Ancestor figure is finely depicted as loved family member, individualized pudgy joyful smiling face. Displays strength and status by his demeanor, composure, portly size, and elaborate horseshoe chair. On lucite stand, a wonderful accessory for a home or business.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$525.00Current price is: $525.00.
H: 7.25 ” W: 3 ” D: 1.625 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Finely carved Kitchen God and his wife, mirror images on backless chairs with multi-sided pedestals reflecting reverent and responsibility to protect the home. Naturally darkened lacquer, soft patina. Male with consecration covering, female open with contents. Unique house warming/wedding gift.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$525.00Current price is: $525.00.
H: 7.75 ” W: 2.875 ” D: 1.875 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Husband and wife Kitchen Gods are near mirror images with similar layered gold officials’ robes, clasped hands covered in ritual cloth. Excellent condition, fine patinas. Consecration script remaining in wife’s cavity but not in husband’s.
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$785.00
H: 7.75″ W: 3.25″ D: 2.375″ | free shipping within Continental U.S.!
Finely detailed and carved from dense wood, this Kitchen God and his Wife monitor the members of the home from their perch above the stove. On Chinese New Year Zao Shen reports to the Jade Emperor in Heaven and a positive report bringsblessings and good fortune, while and unfavorable one brings misfortune. Family members often smear honey on his mouth to sweeten the report. Near mirror images they wear layered gold officials’ robes with decorative sashes and symbolically hold a hu tablet. They are in excellent condition and add positive chi and enhance feng shui. Kitchen Gods especially pairs are now rare and very collectible and make unique wedding and house gifts.
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$115.00 Original price was: $115.00.$90.00Current 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.
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$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$220.00Current price is: $220.00.
H: 3″ D: 3.8″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Decorative brass container to hold kumkum powder used in Hindu rituals and ceremonies. Made into a paste to apply a tikka, decorated with lotus leaves, floral patterns and decorative rim.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
Ht: 20.75” W: 19.125” D: 11” |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This very fine ladies vanity cabinet is covered with red lacquer, the color of blessings (fu), highlighted with gold and deeply carved and painted decorations of auspicious symbols to bring happiness, good fortune, long life and many sons to the elite couple who may have received it as a wedding gift by parents in hopes of them successfully carrying on the family tradition. This is a reflection of the Confucian belief having sons to carry on the family name is essential to real happiness.
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$325.00
H: 14.5” W: 17.75” D: 3.375” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Finely carved figures were attached to ox cart yokes to protect farmers from malevolent spirits who inhabited all seen/unseen sectors of their world. . This beautifully carved ox cart yolk image is a chinthe, a mythical Burmese lion/dragon creature commonly decorating many everyday items. A propitious spiritual and protective guardian, the animalsymbolizes power, courage, and strength. This carving displays the common traits of a lions with a long face, large eyes, a long sharp nose, a lion-like beard, and a flame-like shape on the top of his head. Masterfully carved with careful attention to details, see the deeply incised hairs that cover his body. The 2-part piece is held together with a wooden plug. Though for daily use, Burmese craftsmen created beautiful objects and finished them with the best materials they could afford.
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$850.00 Original price was: $850.00.$695.00Current price is: $695.00.
H: 12.75” W: 6.625” D: 5.75” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental u.s.
This masterfully carved ancestor as a mandarin official sits on horseshoe chair set on a footed high decorated plinth dressed in a well-appointed formal 3-button Mandarin long coat and pointed rattan hat. His face is uniquely and unusually individualized with heavy lidded eyes, in a benevolent expression and his advanced aged indicated by the wrinkles clearly depicting a loved individual. This exquisitely carved image in excellent condition with a fine patina was true homage to a revered family member and is one of our finest ancestor figures.
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$595.00
During the Qing Dynasty, reverence for Mandarin officials and their associated high status with it was so significant that families sought to perpetuate this image through the generations in carved and painted renderings of their ancestors. Ancestor-figures were the highest form of filial piety, and ancestor-worship was a cornerstone of Confucianism. Stuart (p. 82) states…
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$475.00Current price is: $475.00.
H: 10.5” W:7.75” D: 3” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL US
This antique Nuo Opera mask is Tudi Gong, benevolent Earth god with smiling animated face, long eyebrows, hemp beard and high decorative hat. With an honest gentle disposition, he symbolizing the power of good to defeat evil. Nuo popular in Ming/ Qing dynasties, there are few remaining troupes.
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$1,150.00 Original price was: $1,150.00.$875.00Current price is: $875.00.
H: 19.25″ W: 10″ D: 8.75″ |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Seated imperiously on a horseshoe chair with carved title “Holy Mother in Heaven,” Mazu is depicted in the imperial style, with a regal flat topped headdress, elaborate robes with dragons, official’s girdle in red and gilt.
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