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$1,150.00 Original price was: $1,150.00.$977.50Current price is: $977.50.
A palanquin is a wicker or light wood human-powered mode of transport once used in Asia to carry people, usually for a royal or single person of elite status in…
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$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$250.75Current price is: $250.75.
H: 9.5″ W: 5.25″ D” 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Each of the antique carved wood oil lamps of this pair is filled with auspicious symbols to bring health, wealth and happiness to its owner – both in the past and in the present. Their vertical shafts are composed of stylized double happiness characters mounted on a rounded stand on four feet. Painted in gold and red for good luck, their articulated decorative rectangular tops are covered with carved lozenge designs and five-leaf plum blossoms on each side.
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$695.00 Original price was: $695.00.$590.75Current price is: $590.75.
H: 8” W: 5.5” D: 3.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This is a really great pair of stone small fu lions with lots of character, humor, and detailed carving. Each of these very joyous creatures has open mouthed smiling faces with radiant eyebrows and tufts below their chins, scalloped manes and bushy tails. Carved from one piece of a blackish hard stone they could easily withstand additional wear of the elements in a garden. Pairs of fu lions like this belong in the home of people who appreciate spirituality and wish for happiness and fortune along with a touch of wit and whimsy.
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$245.00 Original price was: $245.00.$208.25Current price is: $208.25.
H: 13” W: 3.75” D: 2.625” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
This Burmese teak heddle pulley is topped by a graceful peacock with tail extending to his head and a long elegant neck. The peacock symbolizes wholeness, combining all colors with its spread tail and the fleeting nature of all sentient beings. Drawing on old animistic beliefs, old folk art Burmese heddles are decorated with carvings of mythical or auspicious animals providing the weaver protection and assuring good quality weaving. Mounted on metal pole with wood base.
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$245.00 Original price was: $245.00.$208.25Current price is: $208.25.
H: 14″ W: 2.675” D: 3.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
This elegant heddle pulley carved from a single piece of Burmese teak is topped by a peacock, which in Buddhism represents the short-lived nature of all things and it also is the emblem of the last Burmese dynasty. Borrowing from ancient animistic traditions, it was believed that auspicious symbolic animal images protected the weaver, assured quality weaving, and pleased the gods and spirits. This antique folk piece is wonderfully weathered from time and use.
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$725.00 Original price was: $725.00.$505.75Current price is: $505.75.
The peacock is very significant in Buddhism, especially the Theravada Buddhism practiced in Burma. It is one of 108 images on the Buddha’s footprint and reflects the short-lived nature of…
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$1,450.00 Original price was: $1,450.00.$1,232.50Current price is: $1,232.50.
H: 19.25″ W: 10″ D: 8.75″ |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
Seated imperiously on a horseshoe chair with legs on a turquoise embossed pedestal on a base with carved characters of her title “Holy Mother in Heaven,” this majestic Mazu is depicted in the imperial style, wearing a regal flat topped headdress and elaborate robes with dragons and an officials girdle at the waist highlighted in red and covered with gilt. This wonderful carving is in excellent condition after years of use.
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$595.00 Original price was: $595.00.$505.75Current price is: $505.75.
Ht: 13.75” W: 26.25” D: 13.125” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CAL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected]
One of a pair of antique low tables on 3 folding bamboo-shaped leg supports, this traveling prayer/study table was designed for Tibetan monks or nomadic families to lay out sutras (scriptures), scrolls, books and other study materials and by Tibetan devotees as a personal altar/prayer table. It is simply decorated with painted florals on vines and a fruit offering bowl symbolizing the flowering of enlightenment and opening of the heart.
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$950.00 Original price was: $950.00.$807.50Current price is: $807.50.
Ht: 17” W: 4.25” D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Chinese puppet theatre thrived, educated and entertained people with puppets that usually had detachable heads. A very popular figure, the Queen Mother of the West is the highest ranking female Taoist deities venerated by women as a powerful, independent deity embodying yin (female energy) who they prayed to for health and long life. Her complex elaborate headdress includes a large outstretched tortoise atop her iconic symbol, the phoenix, all flanked by two nagas under an arch bordered with a scale like finish, a truly unique and impressive image. She is mounted on a modern contemporary frosted acrylic base.
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$495.00 Original price was: $495.00.$420.75Current price is: $420.75.
H: 22.25″ W: 7.25″ D: 5 ” |CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING COST
This antique male puppet head was carved from a single piece of wood, and like most puppets, has a tapering neck. With a well carved calm, peaceful expression, downcast eyes and half-smile, it could have been for either religious or secular purposes. The thin ridge on his forehead indicates it was likely used for various of roles in different stories.
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$585.00 Original price was: $585.00.$497.25Current price is: $497.25.
H: 11.5” W: 5.375” D: 4.25” | FREE SHIPPING within Continental u.s.!
The Queen Mother of the West is one of the most significant Taoist female deities and a patron deity of woman who still pray to her on her birthday for health and longevity. This charming image sits on a backless throne with decorated pedestal, her iconic phoenix in her crown. Her left hand is in karana mudra to cast out demons and negative energy. As it was consecrated it probably was placed on a home altar for personal devotion.
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$2,950.00 Original price was: $2,950.00.$2,507.50Current price is: $2,507.50.
H: 15.25″ W: 24-30″ D: 5″ | EMAIL [email protected] OR CALL 213-568-3030 FOR SHIPPING COST
This rare 5 piece green glazed Shiwan stoneware altar set consists of a censor at the center flanked on each side by a pair of candlestick holders and vases. Each elegant piece has a coordinated glaze and decorative and structural designs with intricate, well-proportioned features to combine as a wish for symbolic wish for the fulfillment of all of one’s wishes including the 5-blessings (longevity, health, wealth, a virtuous life, a natural death).
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