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Framed Finely Embroidered Buddhist Lion Silk Panel Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Textiles: Pre 1837 VR item# 806432 (stock# 10-60)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $700
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

Georgian Ceremonial Toasting Ram Horn Wine Cup Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Near Eastern: Metalwork: Pre 1920 item# 805608 (stock# 27-77)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $175
Georgians love wine. They produce it with quality and drink it in quantity. During a Georgian celebratory dinner, called a supra, the host leads toasts throughout an evening of good food, wine and fellowship that is a treasured national tradition. Distinctively Georgian wine vessels are a part of that culture. This ram’s horn supra toasting cup has a wide band of silver over copper around the drinking end and is capped on the other end with an embossed silvered copper tube that ends in the shape ...click for details

Mythical Animal Protector Carved Teak Medicine Box Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Folk Art: Pre 1980 item# 805354 (stock# 12-43)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $375
An elephant-like mythical animal believed to offer protection to a house and its inhabitants is carved of teak wood and sealed with black lacquer. From the Shan minority people in northeast Burma, the carving has a sliding lid over a large open area that was used to store medicine. The animal is a fanciful composite creature from the carver’s imagination. The trunk is raised over a distinctly non-elephant-like open mouth with sharp teeth. The ears are flowers that extend upwards from above the ...click for details

Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900 item# 805132 (stock# 18-46)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $890
Salvaged from a Japanese ryokan (inn), this late Meiji blue and white ceramic benki moves easily to a second life as a handsome plant holder or fountain. Western expatriates in the Far East, particularly in Japan, have a long history of adapting utilitarian items with appealing Asian design to inventive new uses, and this is one of the most unusual items to be adapted. This benki, with its cobalt blue patterns, is recognizable as Japanese at first glance but its original use as a urinal is not a ...click for details

Moon Cake Molds with Auspicious Symbols Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Folk Art: Pre 1970 item# 804404 (stock# 10-55)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $125
Handcarved wood molds used in making rice cakes for Chinese celebrations at New Year and the first full moon conveyed a family’s hopes for good fortune in the coming year. On this set of three, special wishes for wealth are expressed with carvings of coins, for joy with the butterfly shapes, for abundance with fish, and for protection with dragons. The rice cakes themselves, whether made with such special molds or just patted into round or oval shapes, carry a symbolic meaning of peace, harmony ...click for details

Young Buddhist Novice Watercolor by Khan Bo Catalogue: Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor: Pre 2000 item# 804079 (stock# 41-30)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $350
A young boy in service as a novice monk sets out on his morning rounds to beg for food in this watercolor that conveys the essence of Burma. It is the practice for boys between the ages of about 7 and 13 years of age to leave their families and live for a time as novices at their local monastery where they receive instruction and live monastic lives. This painting, signed by Khan Bo, captures the boy's sense of duty, picturing him alone in a sun-baked Burmese landscape. We unfortunately are ...click for details

Embossed Silver Alloy Tribal Opium Pipe Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 803134 (stock# 40-11)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $200
An interesting piece that evokes hilltribe elders and smoky fires in the mountains of the Golden Triangle, this pipe is made of seven sections fitted together over a wood shaft to form a long tube. The wood ball on the end fits over the shaft that runs down the center of the metal tube. Embossed designs of an exotic bird and foliage cover the tube, made of an alloy with silver content. The mechanics of usage or whether the pipe is usable is a mystery to us. We acquired it as part of a purchase ...click for details

Gold Embroidered Lions on Silk Ceremonial Wall Hanging Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Textiles: Pre 1900 item# 802713 (stock# 32-53)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $295
Five lions gambol across the intense red silk background of this mid-19th century Qing wall hanging. The heavy silk is lined and backed with a darker red silk, which along with the gold embroidery gives the piece weight. Heavy doubled strands of gold are couched in contours to form the frolicking lions, or fou dogs, and the surrounding streamers, balls and clouds. Metallic blue thread is couched to define tails, manes and other details. Five pairs of huge black eyes are done in satin stitch. The ...click for details

Vintage Bronze Art Deco Figurine Oil Lamp Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1970 item# 802398 (stock# 63-86)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $650
A sleek bronze figure, cast in Burma about 40 years ago, assumes an art deco form as he smilingly holds up a receptacle for lamp oil. The design is likely a remnant of Burma's earlier colonial period (1890-1941) when British administrators, with little appreciation for indigenous Burmese art, commissioned ornamental images made to their own specifications. Burmese metalsmiths, whose skill was evident in the Buddhist art they produced, adapted their artistry to turning out secular European d ...click for details

Pencil Sketch by Niko Tsetskhladze Catalogue: Fine Art: Drawings: Pencil: Pre 2000 item# 802021 (stock# 27-20)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $270
An intimate study of the melancholy face of a tanner by Niko Tsetskhladze is framed and double matted. The artist works in Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, where he was born in 1959. After graduating from the Tbilisi Academy of Fine Arts in 1986, he began exhibiting in cities throughout Europe. With such exhibit themes as Caravansarai, Pirosmani to Avant-Guarde, Silk Road, Cartesian Thinking and Icon and Perception, his shows in Cologne, Leipzig, Budapest, Barcelona, Bristol, Moscow, Leningrad and, ...click for details

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