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Catalogue: Vintage Arts (48)

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Muville Signed Serving Tray, Faux Vincennes Cipher Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Ceramics: French: Porcelain: Pre 1940 item# 1157902 (stock# 415AOG)
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This footed French serving tray is heavily decorated with gold fading into apple green down to white ground. Centered on the tray under the gilded Rococo handle is a typical 18th Century bucolic landscape decoration. It has minute figures of women at a picnic in the foreground and a distant mountain chateau with dark clouds and craggy rock textures. The painting, over glazed enamel, is signed by Muville. He is known to have painted for some Limoges ceramic manufacturers like Lazeyras, Rosenfeld ...click for details

Large Ornamental Chinese Calligraphy Brush Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1980 item# 1157028 (stock# 412AOG)
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This large calligraphy brush (brush pen or pi) used in writing, is decorated as if for a high official's use.[40A] The handle is made of varying lengths and tints of segments of bone which are decorated with different incised tree and leaf patterns (e.g. pine, bamboo), then are inked black. Next, free hand, or boneless, painted perching birds, some with long tails, were done over the incised branches. This decor is seen on all sides of the handle. The bristles are long (> 5") and probab ...click for details

Delicate Featured Ivory of Kwan-yin Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1980 item# 1156466 (stock# 404AOG)
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The Art and Orchid Gallery's finely carved Buddhistic ivory statue of the bodhisattva, Kwan-yin (Guan-yin in Pinyin), on a fitted wooden base, is in the style of the early Tang Dynasty.[112A] Kwan-yin had become the most popular and influential bodhisattva of Buddhism, known for great compassion and boundless ability to help all people. Here, Kwan-yin is depicted covered with a robe, sitting in a natural relaxed position with her right hand on her knee exposing her right foot. Her left h ...click for details

Signed, Dated Russian Hand Painted Russian Box Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Decorative Art: Organics: Lacquer: Pre 1980 item# 1155031 (stock# 395AOG)
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This remarkable signed and dated Russian hand painted hinged lacquer box is numbered: 15192. The artist used a dozen opaque colors blended in situ (on the box) and over paint metallic gold to portray an action filled fairy tale.[19A] Painted in 1971, the artist used strikingly realistic facial and figural designs with single brush bristle gold highlights. Outside the box is free hand cartouche in gold and silver, all on jet black exterior and red interior. It is in very good condition for 40+ y ...click for details

Exotic Turquoise & Coral Heart-Shaped Box Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 1154917 (stock# 393AOG)
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This exotic turquoise and coral jeweled hand wrought brass hinged sacred container was probably a Tibetan rosary box.[117AA] The top is brass filigree rope cartouche that surrounds floral and a central inlaid stone figure. The Art and Orchid Gallery's tour de force jeweled box has polished coral rice-size stones and polished turquoise round stones inlaid in brass twisted wire and rope mounts surrounding the outside of the hinged heart-shaped cover. Tibetans have exhibited such craftsmans ...click for details

Japanese Ichiboku Carved Treen Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Wood: Pre 1980 item# 1153480 (stock# 382AOG)
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This one-of-a-kind Japanese treen is crafted from a tree stump and its roots, possibly mulberry wood. It is a secular sculpture of two figures struggling in martial art combat. The sculptor used the twisted roots and knotty stump to his advantage to express the violent emotions and dynamic forms of the carving. The Japanese have for a long time had a preference for wooden sculpture. They have a traditional taste for wood and a skill in using a chisel. This particular carved treen exhibits ...click for details

Jing Tai Lan Sweetmeat Box Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Enamel: Pre 1980 item# 1152736 (stock# 257AOG)
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This jing tai lan sweetmeat box (cake box) in the Qianlong style is exemplified by an elaborate cover fashioned of high relief repousse with cabochons and tiered borders filled with true finely enameled Chinese motifs. The box sides and base are brass banded tiers of cloisonne in 18th Century opaque enamel colors and mixed colors. The top of the box cover is an elaborate high relief brass annealed on copper lotus scroll and flower motif. The cabochons, outlined by rope or flat wire, make up t ...click for details

Carved Genuine Jade Chinese Pendant Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Hardstones: Pre 1980 item# 1142344 (stock# 363AOG)
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Carved polished Chinese chen yu (genuine jade) is of mythical animals, lung-ma and feng-huang and lotus.[10A, 159B, 163C] It is a bi-color jadeite mineral hand carved on all sides and pierced to be a pendant.[90D] The hand carving on this chen yu was done by lapidary techniques in China using Guatemalan jadeite of gray-lavender and green-brown bi-colors according to the referenced color chart[65H] and the Mohs Scale hardness of 6-7.[33 I, 96J] Most of the front of the pendant is a deeply carved ...click for details

Bronze Holy Cup Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Middle Eastern: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 1134367 (stock# 343AOG)
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This bronze panch patra was fabricated in Western India, probably in the state of Maharashtra, during the 19th Century.[147A] Embossed decorations of typical Indian floral and foliate designs are finely chiseled, encircling the top and bottom of the bronze cup between rows of concentric lines crafted by hammer and punch work.[144B] Panch patra are used in religious rituals in offering water to idols. An example can be seen in "Everyday Art of India".[147A] Letters from the Marathi lang ...click for details

Bronze Cast Embossed Votive Candle Holder Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Middle Eastern: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 1134012 (stock# 342AOG)
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This bronze cast votive candle holder is embossed with high relief Indian patterns. The relief designs are a warm gold color set against a dark brown ground. They copiously overlay the holder, giving the religious object a tactile feel. The devotional lamp has multiple deep relief Indian designs using several motifs typical of Indian decorative art.[147M] The decorations are separated by bars and spots; the same borders can be seen on 2nd-4th Century stone carved panels in Buddhist stupas and th ...click for details

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