Porcelain Courtly Lady Snuff Bottle Beautiful

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 2000: item #553762
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Not an old piece but based on an antique snuff bottle. This beautiful overglazed porcelain bottle depicts a courtly lady resting with a fan. All hand decorated and detailed. 4" long and as are most of these women figures with exposed breasts, this one is not signed. The shoe pulls out with bone spoon.

Green Tara Thangka Multiple Images Contemporary

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Pre 2000: item #551959
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There are twenty-one separate forms of Tara, but by far the most common are White Tara and Green Tara. The symbol of Green Tara is the blue water lily. She can be recognized in paintings by her green coloration, by her posture, and by the lack of the seven eyes accorded to White Tara. Both are considered the embodiment of good women and as compassionate protectors. All forms of Tara are considered to be Bodhisattvas. ... Click for details

Mandala Thangka Contemporary Gold Number 2

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551817
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The mandala dominates the central portion of the thangka. Guru Rimpoche (Padmasambhava) sits on clouds at its top. On either side of him are lamas. The bottom of the thangka is inscribed with five lines of tiny Tibetan script.

This thangka is unmounted and suitable for framing. Including the border it measures 18.5" by 19.5". This thangka is part of a series of meticulously rendered thangkas paint... Click for details

Mandala Thangka Contemporary Gold Number 1

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551760
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Finely inscribed in Tibetan script on the top and the bottom corners, this thangka is composed of concentric circles. It could be viewed as the overhead view of a stupa, or simply as a circular mandala. The widest of the circles depicts a watery world full of boats and sea creatures. The detailing is particularly fine: even the unadorned gold corners are finally embossed.

This thangka is unmounted and sui... Click for details

Buddha with Bowl Contemporary Gold Thangka

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551674
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A large portrait of a contemplative Buddha dominates the central portion of this thangka. He is surrounded by an aureole of leaves and flowers intertwined with eight swirling dragons. Above all this is the smiling face of a kirtimukha. In the upper corners two seated Buddhas float in the sky. In front of his throne at the bottom of the thangka sits an elaborate Tibetan table holding vases of flowers and a tray of offerings protected by two ferocious snow lions. Standing female figures h... Click for details

Manjushree Thangka Gold Contemporary

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551602
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108 small identical images of Manjushree surround the larger central image of Manjushree seated on a lotus throne. Manjushri is considered to be the oldest of the Bodhisattvas. He is particularly revered in Nepal, where he is regarded as the creator of the Kathmandu Valley. Legend has it that the Valley was covered with water until he cut away a portion of a hill with his sword and let the water drain from the lake, thus creating the valley. His sword is now considered to be the... Click for details

108 Buddhas Contemporary Gold Thangka

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551591
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108 small identical Buddha images surround central image of Buddha Shakyamuni seated on a lotus throne with his right hand in the earth-touching mudra holding an alms bowl with his left. Elephants, lions, and deer flank him, and above are water monsters, mermaids, and Garuda. Two attendants stand below the throne on either side of a dharma wheel.

This thangka is unmounted and suitable for framing. Including the... Click for details

Larger Crystal Snuff Bottle Old Fishing Village Scenes

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese: Snuff Bottles Pre 2000: item #551493
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A very nice quality of painting in reverse is seen in this crystal snuff bottle. It is hand done, not a photo transfer. Scenes of an old Chinese fishing village and fishing boats on both sides. It is about 10 years old. Brass spoon. Signed on side. It is 5" tall and comes with a brocade silk box. A good time to collect these nice reverse painted bottles while they are still hand painted in China. A good price for this quality.

Vajrasattva with Consort Contemporary Gold Thangka

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #551284
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Vajrasattva is one of the six Dhyani Buddhas. Here he is represented in yab-yum wit his consort. He is univerally depicted holding a bell in his left hand and a vajra in the right. The vajra is pressed toward his chest while the bell rests on his left leg. The vajra and bell are symbolic of compassion and wisdom as well as male and female.

This thangka is unmounted and suitable for framing. Including the bord... Click for details

Contemporary Thangka in Gold: Chenrezi and Attendants

Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Chinese Contemporary: item #550731
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The Dalai Lama of Tibet is considered to be an incarnation of this form of Avalokitesvara, the Four-Armed Avalokitesvara. Called Chenrezi by the Tibetan, he is the Bodhisattva of compassion. He is the patron deity of Tibet and his practice was introduced into Tibet in the seventh century. He holds a wish-fulfilling jewel in two of his arms and Buddhist prayer beads in his second right hand and the flower of a lotus in his left. Seated on a lotus throne, he wears the crown of a Bodhisattva, l... Click for details