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Japanese Meiji Silk Fukusa
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Pre 1910 item# 810848 (stock#57-97)
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$250--ON HOLD
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The fukusa, a square piece of cloth with a unique and often exquisite design, became an essential element in the elaborate ceremony prescribed for the formal presentation of a gift during the Meiji era in Japan. Sometimes confused with the furoshki, a larger, single layer of cloth used to wrap and transport an informal gift, the fukusa is seldom larger than 15 inches square, lined and made of fine silk. These pieces often were commissioned by a family, designed to their specifications, and then ...click for details
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Silk Mounted Chinese Calligraphy Panels
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Pre 1980 item# 810505 (stock#37-65)
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(203) 208-0771
$700
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Two panels of Chinese calligraphy convey an exotic and compelling vision: “In the amber light . . . hear the sound of drums and dance and fly like a bird.” Written in free-flowing cursive script, these late 20th century panels are mounted on grey silk appropriate for framing or scrolling. A fascinating window into Chinese history, calligraphy began with oracle bone script in the 11th and 12 centuries BC and progressed through various styles of script—seal, clerical, standard, and cursive. Among ...click for details
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Kishangarh Miniature of Legendary Indian Beauty Radha
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Contemporary item# 808889 (stock#61-36)
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$200
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A drawing by contemporary Kishangarh artist Yagya Prakash copies the form of an 18th century painting attributed to Nihal Chand, an artist in the court of Kishangarh Maharajah Sawant Singh. The distinctive Kishangarh School of miniature painting, characterized by elegantly elongated people with pointed chins and long stylized eyes under drooping eyelids, developed in the early 1700s under the patronage of this 10th ruler of Kishangarh. Frequently portrayed as seen here, are Radha, the beautiful ...click for details
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Meiji Blue and White Fukizima Charger
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Pre 1900 item# 807056 (stock#37-98)
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$495
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The striking underglaze blue and white design of this late 19th century Japanese fukizima charger combines both vivid and muted cobalt in misty blossoms and leaves that float within sharply defined stems. The fukizima technique, employing a stencil and sprayed pigment, created the white flowers that hover above a soft blue background. The igezara fluted trim is in perfect condition; there is a small firing flaw to the lower right of the design. The diameter is 15" (38 cm).
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Shan Carved Wood Ladle for Alms Bowls
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Pre 1980 item# 806740 (stock#64-02)
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$195
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This most unusual rice ladle from the Shan minority people of Southeast Asia has carvings of a peacock, an elephant, a donkey, a fish and a mystery animal all lined up along its handle. Carving on the double handle, meant to simulate rope, is skillfully done; carving on the animals is much more primitive, which probably means that it originated in one of the many small Shan villages concentrated in northeast Burma and northwest Thailand. The ladle bowl is made from a sturdy gourd coated with lac ...click for details
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Framed Finely Embroidered Buddhist Lion Silk Panel
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Pre 1837 VR item# 806432 (stock#10-60)
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Silk Road Gallery
(203) 208-0771
$800
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A mid-Qing Dynasty red silk temple wall hanging has magnificent embroidery in gold and the traditional colors of Tibet. The early 19th century panel, now framed and protected under glass, is from a period of friendship and interaction between China’s Manchu leaders and the Buddhist lamas of Tibet, which would account for the merging of Chinese design elements with those more typically Tibetan Buddhist elements such as the lion’s tail, eight colored jewels riding in the waves and the ball under t ...click for details
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