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Provincial Chinese Woven Reed Dumpling Basket Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Folk Art: Pre 1900 item# 838731 (stock# 58-72)
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Designed to store and serve dumplings, this unusual Qing reed and wood basket originated in China’s western Shaanxi Province, which has a long-standing reputation for producing excellent dumplings. Both the top and bottom are edged with wide strips of bent willow hand painted with flowers. The wood is secured to the basketry with metal studs. A hand forged metal hasp is used as the front closure. Acting as a hinge in the back is a large metal ring loosely fastened to loops, an arrangement that ...click for details

Qing Embroidered Silk Peacock Wall Hanging Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Textiles: Pre 1910 item# 838315 (stock# 41-63)
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A peacock embroidered in jewel tones stands on a low tree peony branch on this large red silk wall hanging from the late Qing period. During China’s Ming and Qing Dynasties, the peacock was used as a symbol of rank and also was presented as recognition for meritorious service. It symbolized beauty and dignity, and often was combined, as here, with the tree peony, emblem of Spring and good fortune. This peacock, its tail and wings spread wide against the red silk, is regal in shades of teal, pur ...click for details

Earthenware Burmese Pipe Early 19th Century Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Folk Art: Pre 1837 VR item# 837398 (stock# 41-08)
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A heavy 200-year-old pipe from Burma is made of clay mixed with a generous amount of sand. Such sturdy unglazed pipes and other utilitarian items were produced for centuries in Burma’s provincial pottery villages using primitive techniques developed during the Pagan Period. This pipe is very similar to those excavated in earlier times, illustrated in “Burmese Crafts Past and Present” by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Oxford University Press, 1994, p. 205. It has two small chips on the edges of the bowl; oth ...click for details

Cinnabar Lacquer 19th Century Burmese Basketry Bowl Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1900 item# 834732 (stock# 10-62)
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A fine, tight weave of thin reeds gives texture to the cinnabar and black lacquer finish of this mid-19th century Burmese bowl. The textural quality is heightened by the wearing of top layers of cinnabar lacquer revealing black lacquer underneath for a handsome negoro effect. Resting on four low feet, the bowl, or “kwet,” flares out to a wide point about three-quarters up its height, and then gently angles in toward its crisp upper edge. The inner surface is smoothed with many coats of lacque ...click for details

Large Bronze Medicine Buddha on Tall Stepped Throne Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1910 item# 831485 (stock# 13-04)
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The beauty of this large bronze Burmese Buddha of healing is in its simplicity. The plain draped robe and the straight spare lines of the high stepped throne focus attention first on the peaceful face and next on the graceful hands. The triangular face is classic Ava, with broad sweeping brow, downcast eyes and small mouth in a slight smile. Fingers of the right hand, in earth touching mudra, rest with the tips bent gently outward; balanced in the left hand palm is the symbol of healing, a kalas ...click for details

Pair Majapahit Fabric Hangers with Rice Goddess Figures Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Folk Art: Pre 1837 VR item# 820399 (stock# 06-81)
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Teak hangers for decorative textiles or drapes are carved with figures of Dewi Sri, Hindu goddess of agrarian fertility, a revered icon on the Indonesian island of Java. The painted faces are in the style of the old Majapahit Empire that flourished in East Java during the 13th to 15th centuries. These hangers are from the early 19th century. Throughout Java, Dewi Sri takes on a variety of appearances, sometimes dressed as royalty, sometimes in local costume, in wood, ceramic and bone figures, a ...click for details

Japanese Silk Shibori Fukusa With Mon Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1910 item# 818776 (stock# 32-52)
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Shibori, an incredibly intricate Japanese textile art, was used to create the mon (family crest) on one side and good fortune character on the other side of this late Meiji era fukusa. The designs were formed by tightly tying off with thread thousands of individual tiny sections on plain white silk. The tied off sections covered the surface everywhere except the outlines of the character and crest, so that when the fabric was dyed green and the binding threads removed, each tiny section was puck ...click for details

Black Lacquer Box with Incised Yun Design Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Lacquer: Pre 1920 item# 815705 (stock# 12-44)
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A small lacquer box incised with the Burmese “yun” technique has an unusual lid design of a scarf encircled with foliage. Using the yun method, the pattern is accomplished by cutting through top layers of lacquer to reveal one or more differently colored lacquer layers underneath. In this case, just black and light red lacquers were used, producing a container with a simplicity that sets it apart from the multi-colored intricate yun work seen on the larger cylindrical betel boxes from Burma. Thi ...click for details

Relief Carved Scholar Pavilion Framed Wood Panel Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1900 item# 813455 (stock# 58-18)
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A finely detailed Chinese relief carving shows a bearded scholar in his courtyard surrounded by friends and family. He and his bearded associate sit at a table under the ornate roofs of the raised pavilion. Two children and several other figures are seen in other sections of the courtyard, which is enclosed by a low fence. Six tiled roofs, trees and potted plants are carved with meticulous care, and another structure is seen atop a mountain in the background. The coins carved in each end of the ...click for details

Japanese Meiji Silk Fukusa Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Textiles: Pre 1910 item# 810848 (stock# 57-97)
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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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