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The Art and Orchid Gallery

The Art and Orchid Gallery

Catalogue: Vintage Arts (48)

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Furniture

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Chinese Carved Ivory Itinerant Craft Vender Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1168619 (stock# 450AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's sectional ivory carving depicts an itinerant craft vender carrying his wares on a bamboo pole. His craft work includes: masks, baskets, fans, lampshades, hats, a mallet and pilgrims' gourds.[159A, 159B, 159C] These crafts are decorated by incising to show the fibers, bands of silk and wood grains; then outlined in ink. The clothing of the vender is covered with diaper patterns, polychromed in red, green, gray and brown. Some of these diaper patterns are calle ...click for details

Chinese Carved Ivory of Daikoku w Wealth Motifs Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1167777 (stock# 447AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's Chinese carving is of the frequently depicted Japanese character associated with Japan's resources or wealth.[191A] Of course, he has a Chinese counterpart known as 'Ta-Shen Wang'. Since the 8th Century Daikoku has been depicted with a mallet or 'hammer of chaos' in his right hand; it is an emblem of the working miner and signifies the mineral wealth of Japan. In his left hand is a bag of jewels uncovered from deep in Japan. Finally, Daikoku ...click for details

Chinese Carved Ivory w Exemplary Polychrome Incising Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1167507 (stock# 446AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's ivory carving is an itinerant craft vender carrying a wide variety of wares on a bamboo pole. The crafts he displays include: masks, hats, fans, baskets and pierced lanterns.[159A, 159B, 159C] He carries an incised pilgrim's gourd next to his right hand. The crafts are decorated with incising in ink. The seller's clothing and both sides of the ivory base are very finely hand painted in polychromes or inked. Out extreme close up photos show the precise det ...click for details

Hand Carved Chinese Display-Style Side Table Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Furnishings: Furniture: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1980 item# 1167240 (stock# P-5)
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Most of the top of this hand carved Chinese table is a glass-covered high relief (1 inch) of Chinese motifs. The top carving is mostly T-fret trellis pattern with floral inserts (peony and lotus). There are 2 borders of lotus scroll on either side of this major panel. The two front drawers have incised bronze bat handles. There are other simple carvings across the front. It is carved of a light brown wood (like fruitwood). It is in excellent condition made in the 1980's. Size: ~ 32 1/2&qu ...click for details

Elaborate Chinese Carved Bone Vase Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1167042 (stock# 445AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery presents for sale a hand carved bottle-shaped bone vase covered from lip to foot with deep relief Chinese images over diaper grounds. Around the lip is meandering key (a type of Pakwa design); then Indian lotus scroll.[159A, 192B, 42C] Proceeding down the bottle's neck are two opposing roundels containing flowering poppy plants on rock relief above the Chinese 'nest of boxes' diaper.[192D] The roundel borders are made of continuing lotus scroll with 4 large ...click for details

Carved Ivory Okimono Budhisattva with Mark Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1166229 (stock# 439AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery presents a finely modeled okimono of Kwannon (Japanese name for Kwan Yin of China).[191A] Kwannon with her various forms and titles is generally known as the Goddess of Mercy and , in Japan, is one of 75 Bodhisattvas.[191B] Most prominently, she displays the 'lun', one of the eight Buddhist emblems of happy augury.[73C] The lun is represented by the wheel of the law when enveloped in flames. The wheel is symbolic of Buddha's law and his preaching of the ...click for details

Tibetan Calligraphy Brush made w Copper, Silver, Brass Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Indian Subcontinent: Himalayas: Pre 1980 item# 1162235 (stock# 429AOG)
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THe Art and Orchid Gallery's writing/painting instrument was handcrafted in Tibet of the three metals: copper, silver and brass plus animal hair brush (maybe goat) and wood. These are the same metals frequently combined by Tibetans to make decorative and ritualistic objects like the 'mani', or prayer wheel (AOG-309, 187A, 162B); 'gau', or portable shrines [189C, 162D] ; and censers (AOG428). Buddhism spread east from India to China through Tibet. Today the Buddhist religio ...click for details

Large Old Treen Carving with Brass Inlay Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Wood: Pre 1980 item# 1160675 (stock# 422AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's old Chinese treen (wood carving) is a figural group crafted from a single piece of wood about 1920-1930. Typical of that time, there is inlaid ivory teeth and glass eyes. Less typical is the abundance of inlaid brass over the figure's robes, acting as embroidery on textile. The carving has many undercuts on the figures and the base. The figures are the popularized Taoist star god, Fu-Hsing, and the child he frequently carries.[42A, 32B, 159C] Fu-Hsing is one ...click for details

Japanese Carved Treen of Fighting Kara Shishi Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1980 item# 1160079 (stock# 423AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery offers the dramatic well carved treen which exemplifies the Japanese appetence for the wood mediums and their traditional skill using chisels that goes beyond the Fujiwara Period (897-1185).[120A, 18B] This okimono, or ornamental object, was crafted by the technique the Japanese call 'ichiboku', or mostly carved from a single piece of wood.[25C, 120A] From the base stand upward, is a plethora of undercuts as kara shishi climbs on kara shishi. The Japanese arti ...click for details

Le Tallec Studio Decorated French Porcelain Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: French: Porcelain: Pre 1960 item# 1158090 (stock# 416AOG)
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This French hand gilded trellis-work surrounding enameled purple-pink flower heads shows as a jeweled bibelot. LeTallec decorating studios started in France in 1930.[37A] Up to today, it decorates a very small number of boxes, entirely by hand enameling, generally as private stock for high end retailers (Bonwitt Teller, Tiffany & Co., etc.).[37B] Their hand painting is consistently exquisite.[37C] The bottom of the box has the Le Tallec mark (#3) started in 1941 and artist initials 'S.F. ...click for details

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