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Catalogue: Vintage Arts (48)

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Stalactite Hard Stone Carving of a Figure Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Minerals: Hardstone: Pre 1980 item# 1201110 (stock# 201AOG)
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This unusual stalactite hard stone carving has a deeply recessed carved figure, probably carved in the 20th Century. Stalactites are stone 'icicles' generally made of calcium carbonate but may contain greater than 65 minerals. They form on the roofs of caverns over long periods of time.[1, 2] During the second cycle of cave or cavern formation, when the water table is below the cave, rainwater passing through soils and rocks dissolve soluble compounds and drip through these caves. The wa ...click for details

Amber Snuff Bottle and Cover with Deep Relief Carving Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1196008 (stock# 71AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's old snuff bottle is a brown to brownish-orange color. It exhibits deep relief carvings of gourds hanging from intricate leafy vines. The relief work is polished to stand out above the mat brown ground. There is a matching amber top but no spoon. Early Chinese snuff bottles of the 17th Century were carved of amber as well as ivory, cinnabar and jade.[6A] By the 18th Century, the Chinese carved glass, porcelain, other hard stones and even metals to make the bottles ...click for details

Amber Netsuke Monkey Shape with Himo Cord Holes Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1192146 (stock# 508AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery purchased this piece of carved amber netsuke (because of the himo cord holes [120A]) from a Bali dealer with claimed Bali origin. As we have explained and referenced in our 507AOG, this amber netsuke piece we believe is a Chinese carving made for collectors, not Japanese.[507AOG] The carving is a siting monkey with a branch of fruit over its shoulder. The holes for the himo are on the bottom. It has a small inclusion (twig) in the left leg. The monkey has a small p ...click for details

Amber Netsuke Carabao Shape with Himo Cord Holes Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Pre 1980 item# 1191809 (stock# 507AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery purchased this carabao netsuke from a dealer from Bali, Indonesia claiming its origin as Bali. It is more likely of Chinese origin for collectors. Also, based on the hundreds of Japanese netsuke that we can reference, this piece does not have the character or workmanship to be of, or for, the Japanese market.[120B, 197C, 25D, 216C] By the beginning of the Meiji Era, the Japanese in commerce with foreign countries adopted the Western-style, smoked cigarettes and abandon ...click for details

Carved Amber Boulder Group of Taoists in the Mountains Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1189477 (stock# 506AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's large, intricate amber art exhibits deep well-defined carving. It is Taoist decorative art and exhibits three Taoists climbing into the Shou Shan, the Taoist paradise in the Kun Lun mountains. Similar Taoist scenes can be found in woven silk pictures; pietra dura screens; free standing screens; and on ceramics.[73A, 123B, 92E] The mythology of the Kun Lun mountains and its association with Xi Wang Mu, the Queen Mother of the West, goes back to the Shang Dynasty. ...click for details

Wan with Bright European Enamels of "Pi shu shih nu" Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: Chinese Export: Pre 1980 item# 1188098 (stock# 505AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's wan, or bowl, is a translucent porcelain piece of Decorative Art very finely hand painted in thick smooth enamels loved by the Europeans of the early 20th Century and which they still called Famille Rose (yang cai, or foreign colors by the Chinese).[92A, 16B] These enamels are very dark and bright compared to the soft faint rose enamels invented by A. Cassius and used close to 200 years before, and during, the Yongzheng Dynasty. However, the style of designs wit ...click for details

Chinese Lapidary Sweetmeat Box w Archaic Symbols Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1980 item# 1179637 (stock# 493AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's large carved verde antico marble sweetmeat box is an example of elaborate Chinese lapidary art.[97A, 63B] Although this is a 20th Century carving, a carved marble jar from the Shang Dynasty (1523-1027 B.C.) with similar archaic symbols is known.[107C] This Shang marble jar depicts a t'ao-t'ieh mask, or devil mask.[42D, 71E] The mask design is made of ancient Chinese totems of bird, serpent and mammal worship. They were used extensively on bronze ritualis ...click for details

Chinese Ink and Color on Silk Shou dai Niao Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 1174986 (stock# 480AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's well done hand painted Shou dai Niao, or 'bird with long feathers', was painted on silk in China before 1980.[123A] The bird, perched on a bough of viburnum has a very long split tail like a flashy Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher but the colors of America's Eastern Bluebird.[143B] Birds with long tail feathers have been popular subjects for Chinese painting, and other arts, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties and were frequently exported during the 19th Cen ...click for details

Inlaid Mosaic Hard Stone Plate Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Minerals: Hardstone: Pre 1980 item# 1171914 (stock# 464AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's 'commesso', the Italian word used to describe mosaics made of hard stone like marble, is a translucent light yellowish-green stone dish inlaid with four stone types [97A, 97B]; blue, pink, brown and violet polished stone slices in the shape of leaves and flowers. They are depicted on a simple black enameled stem. the commesso is probably Italian and made of types of marble. The tradition goes back to Roman Times; then, was revived in mid-16th Century Ital ...click for details

Signed Japanese Studio Art Cha Wan Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Tea Articles: Pre 1980 item# 1170756 (stock# 460AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's cha wan, or tea bowl, was made in Japan by Izumi Takashi.[3AA, DEA] The artist's impressed mark is found just above the unglazed, stained foot rim extending into the glazed bowl. The piece is Studio Art, made of stoneware (hardness of 7 on Mohs scale) and hand over glazed enameled with gold trims and fill.[33B, 97C] Studio pottery, or Artist pottery, is rooted in the Western protest against industrialization, starting in the mid-19th Century. One can say it i ...click for details

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