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H: 6.25” W: 10.125” D: 2.5” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S.!
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Song Dynasty Tile of Musician with Lute, China (3998BOK) $475
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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Song Dynasty Tile of Woman Ascending to Heaven, China (3348BLK) $445
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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Song Dynnasty Tile of Immortal with Firecracker, China (5515LEM) $495
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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Vintage Carved Dewi Sri Rice Harvest Goddess, Bali (3044WOK) SPECIAL PRICE
Original price was: $425.00.$361.25Current price is: $361.25.Ht: 14.5” W: 3.5” D: 2.25” | FREE SHIPPING WITHIN CONTINENTAL U.S!
This rare vintage carving was probably made for a home shrine or small rice field temple dedicated to Dewi Sri, the Balinese Goddess of Rice. The hole near the bottom indicates it may have been part of a larger decorative scheme.
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Vintage Carved Mask of a King, Bali (1301-12EBE) $105
Original price was: $105.00.$89.25Current price is: $89.25.H: 8.125″ W: 6″ D: 3.5″ | FREE SHIPPINGwithin continental u.s.!
Dalem is an idealized and refined mask (topeng, tapel) of a model Hindu King from Bali and is usually white symbolizing purity. The mask and dance present actions, postures and gestures validating the traits of a good king: grace, poise, dignity and refinement. This piece is well carved, balanced and in fine proportion, and the crown and the animal hide and hair eyebrows and mustache are well integrated in portraying the king’s confidence. It is in very good condition with a wash applied as a the mask to make it look older. It was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s.
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Vintage Carved Tibetan Cham Mask of a Horse, Nepal (11325B-GHL) $325
Original price was: $325.00.$276.25Current price is: $276.25.H: 13.5” W: 7.5” D: 5” | FREE SHIPPING!
This Tibetan mask shows the mastery of Tibetan carvers. It emphasizes the horse’s strength and alertness by cutting deeply around the large and widely separated eyes, raising the lids, creating black eyelash lash patterns as if the horse is moving and proving its strength and stamina. Its open mouth reinforces this and reveals a fine set of teeth. In excellent condition, it was personally collected in Nepal in the late 1970’s.
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Vintage Hand Carved Dewi Sri, Hindu Rice Goddess, Indonesia, Bali (3045DLK) $265
Original price was: $265.00.$225.25Current price is: $225.25.H: 14.5″ W: 6.625″ D: 2.375″ | FREE SHIPPING
This very fine and very beautiful vintage woodcarving of Dewi Sri , Devi Sri or Sridevi in Java, the Balinese Hindu goddess of rice and prosperity, is in excellent condition considering it is a much used vintage piece. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, it reflects the offerings made to Dewi Sri placed in the rice fields to protect the rice harvest. She is depicted here as a young, attractive and fertile woman wearing a striking, highly detailed and decorative headdress similar to those worn in Balinese dances leaving her upper forehead bare and framing her oval face with high curved eyebrows, wide-open eyes and beautiful pursed lips. With its flat back it can be mounted on a wall.
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Vintage King’s Strong Minister Mask, Bali (1301-18PBE) $125
Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.Ht: 8.5” W: 6.51” D: 4.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This traditional Patih (minister) Keras (hard, strong, forceful) Balinese mask is deeply carved, and his huge red lips symbolize a tough, intense, easy to anger but powerful man in a position of prestige. Exaggerated facial elements of large bulging eyes, a powerful stare, huge, bright red lips and a thick animal hair/hide mustache indicate his internal strength as a trusted minister carrying out his king’s wishes. This mask was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s and is in excellent condition with minor scratches and losses consistent with age.
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Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-2FBE) $105
Original price was: $105.00.$89.25Current price is: $89.25.H: 8.5″ W: 3″ D: 2.5″ | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
Topeng Dalem is a mask of an idealized, refined and upright model of a historical Hindu King and is usually a white mask, the color of purity. The dance presents actions and gestures validating the traits of a good king: grace, poise, dignity and refinement. This piece is well carved, balanced, in fine proportion and the crown, the triangular third eye and the animal hide and hair eyebrows and mustache are well integrated as is the mask’s pleasant smile. It is in very good condition with a wash applied as a patina to make the mask look older. It was personally collected in Bali in the 1970s.
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Vintage Mask of a King (Topeng Dalem), Bali (1301-32JBE) $110
Original price was: $110.00.$93.50Current price is: $93.50.Wearing a full mask of an ideal high-born Hindu king (dalem), dancers from Bali perform folk-art and ethnic-art dances without speech using only body language, gestures and movements to depict…
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Vintage Mask of a Strong King’s Minister, Bali (1301-17NBE) $125
Original price was: $125.00.$106.25Current price is: $106.25.H: 7.75” W: 5.5” D: 3” | FREE SHIPPING within continental u.s.!
This mask is patih keras, a strong king’s prime minister in orange symbolizing a tough, intense and powerful person reinforced by his large bulging eyes, powerful stare, red lips and full black moustache. Personally collected in Bali in the 1970s, this beautifully carved mask is in excellent condition with a wash applied on the back to make it look older.
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