Chinese display stand (xiaoan) in the form of a miniature, Ming-style, ‘altar table’ or long table with recessed legs, everted flanges, and openwork panels depicting the auspicious lingzhi fungus (ruyi-cloud form). The table is well-proportioned and true to its much larger prototypes, fashioned from a beautifully grained, light-colored hardwood, and assembled with traditional Chinese joinery. The table top consists of a single floated panel held within a flush and tightly fitted frame...

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A vintage or antique (50 to 100 years old) traditional Chinese birdcage constructed from bent bamboo, wood, metal and brass. The wooden bottom is attached to a short circular bent bamboo wall supporting forty-eight vertical posts, reinforced by horizontal supports. Three of the vertical posts are attached to a slider which operates on two adjacent fixed posts forming an integral sliding door, opposite a small circular opening, perhaps intended as a finger hole...

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A Chinese temple sculpture of a fisherman being lifted from the sea on the back of a large fish. A folk art carving and likely one of a myriad of wooden figures from a rural Tin Hau Temple depicting various miracles involving the Queen of Heaven (or Tin Hau, also Thien Hau, Mazu or Matsu) who is, among other things, patroness and rescuer of sailors and fishermen. The peasant, sun-burnt fisherman is bare-chested, wearing a red scarf around his shoulders and a red sash around his waist...

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Circa 1920: An energetic and spirited sumi ink scroll painting with poem, calligraphy and painting by Wei Mei. In subject matter and style of execution, the painting is quintessentially Shanghai School which especially favored bird and flower painting as well as bold and sponaneous brushwork over the more traditional, classical landscape painting with its labored detail...