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Contemporary Lao Silk Tapestry Shawl by Carol Cassidy
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Pre 2000 item# 837066 (stock# 28-85)
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$550
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This lustrous silk shawl, produced in the early 1990s in the Vientiane, Laos, studio of an American woman intent on preserving the weaving techniques of various Lao ethnic groups, is woven with interlocking tapestry, weft ikat, and discontinuous and supplementary patterning. It is wearable art, gorgeous as a shawl or a wall hanging. Carol Cassidy established her company, Lao Textiles, in Vientiane in 1989, and during the next decade her exquisite silk weavings became known and collected worldwi ...click for details
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Thai Lanna Carved Teak Roof Ornament
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Pre 2000 item# 832718 (stock# 57-81)
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$275
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This soaring form, called a gaelae (galae), is seen in Northern Thailand on the peaked rooftops of houses and other structures built by the Thai Lanna people. On old buildings gaelae are extensions of the ends of roof beams crossed to form a V-shape. On newer houses they usually are separate carvings such as this one and are attached to the peaks of the steep roofs after the basic structure is completed. As to their original use, the most commonly heard explanation is that they were meant to di ...click for details
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Mermaid Folk Painting by Luo Zhi Jiang
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Pre 2000 item# 831702 (stock# 03-66)
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$300
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In vibrant shades of blue on a black background, this painting by Chinese folk artist Luo Zhi Jiang has a sophisticated, dream-like quality that seems worlds away from the painter’s rural home base in Huxian County, Shaanxi Province. Luo Zhi Jiang is one of the few Chinese so-called “peasant painters” to establish a reputation abroad. We first met the artist at the Huxian Painting Community in the early 1990s and were struck by his vision and talent. Since then he has had solo shows in London a ...click for details
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Lao Carved Teak Textile Hanger in Lotus Design
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Pre 2000 item# 829843 (stock# 09-77)
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$160
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Hand carved of teak wood in Laos, this hanger provides an elegant way to display large collectible textiles. The end pieces are fully carved front and back with lotus flowers, Buddhist emblem of purity and perfection. (The symbolism is based on the fact that lotus flowers emerge from the mud beautiful and undefiled.) The center rod measures 31 ½ inches (80 cm) across to hold over-sized textiles such as ikat blankets, silk shawls, sarongs, and tribal and folk weavings. End carvings are shown in o ...click for details
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Chinese Folk Painting of Goats at Sunset
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Pre 2000 item# 813130 (stock# 12-24)
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$190
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The white goats in this colorful Chinese folk painting climb a blue/green hill tinged with red by the huge setting sun. Gouache on paper, this piece from Huxian County in Shaanxi Province is unsigned, as was generally the case for art from China’s peasant painting communities. The Huxian painting community was established in 1958, and from there the movement spread across China, growing to 51 such rural groups by 1989.(For an overview of paintings from many such communities, see “The Best in Mod ...click for details
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Javanese Silver Coiling Snake Bracelet
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Pre 2000 item# 790821 (stock# 35-07)
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$90
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A silver snake bracelet from the Island of Java, Indonesia, expands so that it can be worn on the wrist or on a slender upper arm in Cleopatra fashion. The size is adjusted by slipping the snake head through the curled tail. Snakes, a form frequently used in hand crafted Indonesian jewelry, often are given a human-like expression. In this case, the snake has a furrowed brow. The bracelet is from the mid-1990s. As photographed, the diameter is 2-1/2" (6 cm). Opened so the snake head just t ...click for details
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Hand Forged Set of Bukhara Bird Scissors
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Pre 2000 item# 782102 (stock# 10-51)
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$130
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These strange bird scissors were made in a family's small metal forging shop in the old quarter of Bukhara. Located in Central Asia in the middle of the Kizyl-Kum Desert, Bukhara was perhaps the most colorful stop along the ancient Silk Road, filled with traders, camels, caravanserai and bazaars. The family of workers who produced these scissors (they also made other utilitarian items) are descended from several generations of metalsmiths who labored in the same shop using the same tools. Sm ...click for details
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Dragon and Peacock Carved Teak Jewelry Box
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Pre 2000 item# 778916 (stock# 14-67)
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$275
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A carved teak jewelry box with secret compartments and deep carving on richly grained teakwood has the medieval aura of Bhaktapur, Nepal's old city of lavishly carved courtyards in the shadows of the Himalayas. The construction of the box is intriguing, with its 14 compartments, four of them hidden behind a sliding panel that is cleverly integrated with the carving pattern to disguise the entry to secret trays. Carvings of dragons on the lid and two sides, and of a peacock and lotus flowers ...click for details
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Folk Painting From Chinese Mountain Village
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Pre 1990 item# 776684 (stock# 03-77)
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$90
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A Chinese folk painting from a remote village in the mountains of Yijun County, Shaanxi Province, shows a mythical beast with feathery fangs and a pinwheel on his rump. Paintings from this isolated community above the tree line, drawing on centuries-old embroidery and papercut patterns used by the women of the village, often featured extraordinary creatures in fantasy-like settings. The work of Yijun's peasant painters is included in "The Best of Modern Chinese Folk Painting," pub ...click for details
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Folk Painting of Luochuan in Shaanxi Province
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Pre 2000 item# 768880 (stock# 03-83)
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$280
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This charming Chinese folk painting of embroidered felt liners for shoes comes from a rural area in the north of Shaanxi Province. It was painted by a peasant woman who used for her subject the embroidery she was doing for her children, and so merges the centuries-old folk tradition of needlework with the later artistic expression of paint on paper. The Luochuan painting community was among more than 50 such groups that began emerging in China in the late 1950s. (See "The Best of Modern Chi ...click for details
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