Antique Burmese lacquerware offering tray or "Kalat" coated with red and black laquer used by families to carry offerings of food to the monastery. This beautiful piece is intensified by the vidid colors and high contrast. Stunning Original tray. Age: Early 20th century. Size: 19.125" top diameter x 8.5" height.

A man's cloth or beti by the Atoin meto people from West Timor, woven in three parts and sewn together lengthways. In the middle an antromorph pattern in warp ikat, both ends with fringes. Condition: good, faded, some stains. Dimension without fringes: 173 cm x 108 cm.

A mid to early 20th century Vietnamese chess set. Vietnam was known for accomplished mother of pearl inlay work as found in the accomplished inlay work on this black lacquer board folding to form a case. Every other square is mother of pearl with fine inlaid decoration of the same material and with incised details. The complete set of 32 French Regence style pieces of turned and carved light and dark colored horn...

Superbly decorated very old bear skull, with typically Dayak incised designs all over its upper part. Beautiful partly encrusted patina. Indonesia, Borneo Island, Dayak Peoples. Length: 9" (22,7 cm), height: 3 1/4" (8,2 cm). Lower jaw and and a few teeth missing --- though these factors do not impair the rarity and beauty of the piece --- otherwise very good condition. A very rare ethnographic artifact. IMPORTANT: export to the European Community countries only.

Cambodian temple wall hanging painted with a guardian figure in swirling drapery, beautiful colors on cotton, circa 1930's. Size: 57" high x 18 1/2" wide

Cambodian temple wall hanging, painted with 5 buddhas each with a different mudra and a different animal, beautiful large blossoming lotus in center, blue ground, painted on cotton, some wear and losses, mid 20th century. Size: 73 1/2" high x 44 1/4" wide.

Rare ceremonial Indonesian hand spun cotton fabric called TAPIS,embroidered with elaborate brocade gold thread design. From LAMPUNG, SUMATRA, INDONESIA. Good condition. Size: L. 49" (125.5 cm.) x W. 26.5" (68cm.).Rarely offered for sale!

Absolutely beautiful Thai bronze figure depicting a female dancer in motion, the artist has rendered a great talent exhibiting the dynamic movement of this figure. Size: This wonderful piece stands 14 inches high, in perfect condition.

Elegant ebony wood carving of a Balinese beauty circa 1960 to 1970- possibly older. This was obviously created for the tourist market and panders to the Western ideal of the female form of the time. I traveled to Bali in the 80s and 90s and found their arts and crafts leaning more to the impressionist side, where figures looked like the Navi from Avatar. Given its hardness and cost, ebony is usually only given to master craftsman to carve from...

A beautiful heavy gauge vintage Chinese Thai silver bracelet with chinese characters and flowers, in excellent condition Weighs 78g, L:6-3/4" Marked. $285

From our Southeast Asia Collection, a good and large vintage Indonesian batik executed in three different shades of blue, along with rust, peach, olive, black, brown, white, and signed by the artist.

Batik is one of many methodologies of fabric decoration employed in Indonesia's long and rich textile tradition...

Face mask, with a cylindrical coiffe presenting a small relief in its middle of what seems to be a head and raised arms surrounded by geometric design, with a protruding forehead, pierced through sunken eyes, long nose in relief, pierced through mouth showing teeth, long chin. Wood, with remnants of polychrome pigments, aged patina. China, Yao ethnic group, early 20th century. Height: 12 1/2" (32 cm). The mask is nicely mounted on a custom metal stand...

A beautiful vintage asian Thai silver bangle with gold wash in excellent condition. D:5cm $75

See description for item # 990732: a Large, Published, Inscribed, Dated, Burmese Buddha

From our Southeast Asia Collection, an important and magnificently large, published, inscribed and dated Burmese temple Buddha, Mandalay School, constructed of fabulously carved hardwood coated in reddish-brown lacquer and gilt, depicting Buddha seated in padmasana position with his right hand in bhumisparsa mudra, elevated upon a single tier base with iron temple security rings, and bearing a raised-lacquer dedication inscription that essentially translates as follows: "Wish-fulfilling Kabalon ...

Of circular form with a domed cover having a small elephant as knob. The exterior decorated in repousse with four mythological dancers in lobed cartouches between scrolling foliage. Condition: fine. Dimension: 10.6 cm high, diameter: 7.1 cm, weight: 180 g.

This blouse is from Thailand and made for use by a Karen Hilltribe woman. First the fabric was hand woven from cotton fibers. Next the surface was lower half was elaborately decorated with cotton thread embroidery and tiny sea urchin shells using a geometric pattern. Then it was whip stitched into the form of a blouse using white cotton thread. This garment makes a wonderful display piece and can also be worn for special occassions. 23 inches across and 27 inches long.

Old Chin skirt, circa 1950, from the Khumi subgroup in Burma. The design is called “amtosa” although deceptively simple is really extremely complex; please note in enlargements that the reverse side of this textile does not show any of the pattern on the front. This is made on a backstrap loom of very fine homespun cotton with a beaded open work border along the selvedge. Three small repaired holes. L: 1.8m/6ft and W: 40.5cm/16in.