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Indian Lacquer Ware Box with Fitted Cover Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: East Indian: Pre 2000 item# 1102634 (stock# 292AOG)
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This Indian lacquer ware cylindrical box has a keyed, fitted cover. It is a Decorative Art hand painted in bright colors. The box is polished and is covered with elaborate paintings of tigers hunting prey in India's grassland kingdom, probably India's Kaziranga National Park. Striped tigers have a cloak of invisibility in the tall grasslands. The hunters and the alarmed hunted prey are painted in bright colors against a background of black, red and cobalt blue. Gold outlines the green st ...click for details

Ivory Objet De Vitrine Snuff Bottle Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Ivory: Pre 1920 item# 1102409 (stock# 290AOG)
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This unusual finely carved and incised polychrome ivory was probably crafted in the Late Qing Period as a cabinet bottle for collectors. The delicately carved coiffured head is the integral snuff bottle stopper. The incised details of the woman's robes, shawls, shoes, hair pin and the elephant's saddle cloth are hand painted in five colors and gilded. The saddle cloth contains the incised Chinese wave motif, outlined in blue-purple, while the fringe is triangle pattern over gilded ground ...click for details

Ivory Carving of Chinese Taoist Immortal Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1102240 (stock# 287AOG)
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This ivory carving is of Han Chung-Li, a Taoist immortal. He is represented as a half-draped man with bare belly, usually holding his fan which he used to revive the souls of the dead. (Full story on our website.) This carving exemplifies the ivory carver's skill at showing the elephant tusk's grain (particularly the back of the robe) and polished surface. There is a light brown detail staining and 2 fine cracks on the head. The figure is mounted on a carved wooden base that resembles a ...click for details

Figural Wood Study of an Old Fisherman Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1102059 (stock# 288AOG)
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At one time the Chinese divided their society into four occupational groups. Most esteemed was the scholar, followed by the farmer who was an important producer. Next came the artisan and finally the businessman or merchant who was considered a non-producer. Wood carving is one of the most important Industrial Arts of China. This treen is of an old fisherman, the Chinese representation of the businessman, with his pole waiting to catch something and his basket for his prized catch. Since he is a ...click for details

Bronze Replica of Monumental Chinese Fang Hu Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Metalwork: Pre 1990 item# 1101930 (stock# 280AOG)
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This dramatic 1:4 bronze replica is of a square wine vessel from the Eastern Zhou Dynasty (Late 7th- 6th Century B.C.). The original Fang Hu is in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The original bronze was found in 1923 in Henan Province and is considered among the most spectacular Eastern Zhou bronze objects to date. On the vessel's body are flat inter-lacing and overlapping dragon bodies. This developed into a new design of repeated, reduced simplified units that remain a popular style in bron ...click for details

Antique Satsuma Ware Well Bucket Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1920 item# 1101922 (stock# 279AOG)
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This Satsuma ware decorative object is a well bucket style (also known as a T-vase) crafted in the Meiji Period (probably about 1885) by Osumi potters. It is most distinguished by its soft blue-gray Gosu blue ground. This blue was replaced by a more intense cobalt blue on Satsuma ware at the end of the 19th Century. There are two large roundels on opposite sides of the bucket set off with a broad gilt band. In the first, are feudal lords making eye contact with a finely dressed young woman. The ...click for details

Bronze Ghee Lamp for Offering to Shiva Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Middle Eastern: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 1101893 (stock# 291AOG)
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This Ghee lamp is an elaborate devotional altar piece to the Hindu deity, Shiva. The bronze object incorporates Shiva's vehicle, Nandi the Bull, to hold the religious apparatus and Naga (Sanskrit for serpent) to balance the bowl above the Shiva Symbol. Shiva is in his most common aniconic symbol, the Lingham stone (phallus). The bowl, a three piece construction, probably held clarified cow butter for burning offerings to Shiva. The light from the butter flame symbolizes wisdom, dispelling th ...click for details

Satsuma Ware with High Relief Sprigged On Natural Scene Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Earthenware: Pre 1920 item# 1100968 (stock# 281AOG)
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This Satsuma vase has precise enameling over crackle glaze covered with a high relief sprigged on natural scene of a quail and blooming florals. The use of Gosu blue and other pale enamels in the Nishikide rim brocade diaper and sprinkled gold dust clouds with Fall flowers and foliage waving in the breeze are early decorative representations of nature found on Satsuma ware. Although this vase was probably made for export during the Early Modern Satsuma Period, its motifs of natural elements (e.g ...click for details

Multi-Color Soapstone Vase with Deep Cut Relief Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 2000 item# 1100884 (stock# 278AOG)
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This multi-colored cut and pierced soapstone is a decorative vase mounted on a hollowed base of mountain rock. 'Growing' from these rocks, in deep cut relief, is a blooming peony tree and feeding bird. The soapstone colors are tan to reddish with black streaks or blotches. The Chinese use the peony as a symbol for spring and for wishes of riches and honor. There are also peony flowers and leaves incised on the vase where the deep cut relief work ends. An artist's mark is found in fro ...click for details

Large Woodcarving, Polychromed over Gesso of Guan Yin Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 1100546 (stock# 284AOG)
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This free standing figure of Guan Yin is probably a copy of Sui or Early Tang Dynasty Bodhisattva. This feminized Guan Yin wood carving has been gessoed and polychromed. She stands on the traditional hour glass or Mount Sumeru shape pedestal. The figure has a flat slender body, sweeping robes and trailing scarves in different colors. Another aspect on this statute are the brass colored tracing around the folds and edges of the robes and scarves. One of the common styles shows Guan Yin holding a b ...click for details

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