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$295.00 Original price was: $295.00.$195.00Current price is: $195.00.
H: 8.5″ W: 4″ D: 2.75″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
Antique Chinese puppets were often made in several parts with removable heads. This antique carved head of a beauty has delicately painted features and an animal hair braided down the back. Since there is an area without hair towards the back, she likely originally wore a hat or headdress. A hole on top probably accommodated strings.
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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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$395.00 Original price was: $395.00.$325.00Current price is: $325.00.
H: 9.25″ W: 5.75″ D: 2.25″ | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Chinese Noa opera mask is likely a female zhengshen – a benevolent gods with kind and honest nature and gentle disposition -symbolizing the power of good to defeat evil. Age and heavy use
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$495.00
Puppet theatre has traditionally assumed a major role in Chinese religious rituals and honoring major life and historical events. Local productions with beautifully carved puppets, music, drama and costumes instilled societal and cultural values as well as providing entertainment to audiences of all ages and educating provincial ones. This head has a typical tapering shaft…
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$785.00 Original price was: $785.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
Ht: 17” W: 4.25” D: 4.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Very rare depiction of Queen Mother of the West puppet head wearing elaborate headdress with outstretched tortoise legs atop a phoenix, reflecting early shamanism rites of turtle shell divination. Mounted on acrylic base.
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$85.00 Original price was: $85.00.$55.00Current price is: $55.00.
Ht: 9..5 ” W: 2″ D:1.5 ” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.
Antique carving of a Devi (Sanskrit: divine) probably a child’s toy and and protective item. Tikka on forehead, ample breasts – a wish for fertility with a shiny patina from use.
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$650.00
H: 13.75″ W: 3″. D: 3.75″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING.
Rare vintage Balinese mask of Jatayu used in performances of the Ramayana. Jatayu is the Hindu mythical vahana (vehicle) of Vishnu, one of the triad of principal Hindu gods. On a museum quality stand.
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$975.00 Original price was: $975.00.$775.00Current 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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$625.00 Original price was: $625.00.$495.00Current price is: $495.00.
H:14.75″ W: 4″ D: 4.5″ | free shipping within continental US
Antique Xiwangmu puppet head with 3 phoenixes in crown, traditional Qing head ware worn by the Empress for official occasions, ceremonies. Acrylic stand.
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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.
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$165.00
Influenced by Islam for centuries, Javanese theater in Indonesia is stylized, didactic and full of central characters said to be cultural and historic icons of morality. Mask drama theater (Topeng Wayang) in Java is dominated by the conservative central Javanese palace courts (kraton) of Surakarta, Solo and Jogjakarta (Yogyakarta) which have long supported mask makers,…
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$1,750.00 Original price was: $1,750.00.$1,350.00Current price is: $1,350.00.
H: 20.75″ W: 8″ | CALL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected] FOR SHIPPING
Rare Timor ancestor mask for ritual offerings to honor the departed and provide space during village visits, repel evil spirits. Featured in 2002 Spiderman movie in collection of the Green Goblin.
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