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Item Ships From: Palm Springs
Antique Palembang Man
s Songket and Ikat Ceremonial Head Cloth (iket kepala)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Palembang Man's Songket and Ikat Ceremonial Head Cloth (iket kepala).
A woven silk textile with natural dyes, weft ikat pattern, gold thread supplementary weft weave. Textile...
Category
1880s Indonesian Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold, Metallic Thread
Antique Japanese Bronze Goose Incense Burner
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese bronze incense burner in the charming cast form of a goose, standing on both webbed feet, broad body serving as the incense burning receptacle with long outstretched...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Meiji Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Burmese Kalaga, Mandalay
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Burmese Kalaga, Mandalay.
A wall hanging embroidered tapestry inspired from a scene in the Jataka Tales. The embroidery depicts a prince riding...
Category
Mid-20th Century Burmese Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Textile
Japanese Bizen ware bunrin chaire by Toho Kimura
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Bizen ware bunrin chaire by Toho Kimura.
A ceramic powdered tea container for the Japanese tea ceremony. The globular body delicately potted and mottled with ash adhesions,...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Thai Buddhist Gilt Bronze Figure of Phra Sangkachai
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Buddhist Gilt Bronze Figure of Phra Sangkachai, Rattanakosin Kingdom, late 19th Century.
This rotund figure of a corpulent monk sits cross-legged with hands around his large belly on a tiered plinth. The patterned robe and cloth hanging down in the front of the plinth are typical of Rattanakosin decorative style. The bronze casting has a hard clay core remaining and is lacquered overall in black and red with a gold leaf finish.The Thai Phra Sangkachai also known as Phra Mahaccayana (Pali: Mahakaccayan, Sanskrit: Mahakatyayana) may have originated from early Theravada Buddhist traditions of the Mon culture in Burma as a wealth-bestowing deity. From the Lotus Sutra, chapter 6, he is named as an Arhat (one who attains Enlightenment) and is revered for his ability to explain the dharma teachings in a clear manner. He is sometimes confused with the Chinese Laughing Buddha...
Category
Late 19th Century Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Large Japanese Imari Porcelain Charger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hand painted porcelain Japanese Imari charger plate with birds and floral motif.
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Large Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Bronze with bordered silver inlay design overall of a symmetrical floral tendril vine pattern referred to as “the okir ...
Category
19th Century Philippine Tribal Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Bronze
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis Parang, Jogja(Yogyakarta), Java 1940
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis Parang, Jogja(Yogyakarta), Java 1940.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a traditional...
Category
1940s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Medium Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Medium Betel Nut Box, Maranao, Southern Philippines (Mindanao).
Bronze/Brass with bordered silver inlay design overall of a symmetrical floral tendril vine pattern referred to as “th...
Category
Early 20th Century Philippine Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver, Brass
Antique Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Tray/Stand with Dragon Design
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Cinnabar Lacquer Tray/Stand with Dragon Design, Guangxu Period (1875-1908).
A dark vermillion red carved cinnabar lacquered Scholar’s tray on raised and footed supports. The top and sides of the tray carved in tight geometric diminishing square hatch ground with blossom centers. The aprons carved in deep relief on each side with two opposing auspicious five-clawed dragons chasing the flaming pearl amongst the clouds. The four corners with square curved feet supports. The underside lacquered black and unmarked.
4.75 in. high x 15 in. wide x 12.75 in. deep (12 x 38 x 32.5 cm).
4 lbs. 6 oz. (1983g.)
Guangxu Period (1875-1908)
Provenance:
Property removed from a residence at the Pierre Hotel, New York, 2021.
U.S.A. art market.
For similar cinnabar dragon...
Category
Late 19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Chinese Pair of Poetic Calligraphy Scrolls by Luo Er Dong Zhuang
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Pair of Calligraphy Scrolls, vertical lines of calligraphy executed in a light style, right reading: “Moon Rises and the Candle has no Effect” and the left reading: “Wind Ris...
Category
20th Century Chinese Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Antique Chinese Scholars’ Incense Tray of Coconut Wood
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Unusual Chinese Scholars’ Incense Tray, beautifully crafted of wood covered in a parquetry of small pieces of coconut wood in a “Cracked Ice” pattern, small footed base with flared rim with beaded edge. Complete with a Japanese Collectors’ wood storage box labeled: “Chinese coconut...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Coconut
Vintage Sumba Slendang Shoulder Cloth/Scarf/Wall Hanging with Animal Design
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Sumba Slendang Shoulder Cloth/Scarf with Animal Design. Indigo and morinda root dyed cotton warp handwoven in a mirror image design depicting an ark of animal pairs including...
Category
1980s Indonesian Tribal Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Indonesian Kain Panjang Batik Tulis Pagi-sore Buket, Demak, Java 1950
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Panjang Batik Tulis Pagi-sore Buket, Demak, Java 1950.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a tradit...
Category
1950s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Khmer Elephant Form Lime Pot, 12th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Elephant Form Lime Pot, 12th century. A globular stoneware form with narrow aperture on top for the slaked lime. The pot modeled after an elephant...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Thai Silver Buddha
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Thai Silver Buddha, rendered in incised and hammered sheet silver over wood & clay core. The Lord Buddha seated in padmasana with the soles of the...
Category
Late 19th Century Thai Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silver
Old Thai Ironwood Millstone
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Old Thai Ironwood Millstone. A weathered solid thick piece of ironwood originally carved to create a deep track pattern on one side as the grinding surface, possibly used for the gri...
Category
20th Century Thai Folk Art Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Tang Dynasty Silvery bronze lobed “Beast and Birds” Mirror
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Silvery bronze lobed “Beast and Birds” Mirror, Tang Dynasty. The eight-foliated barbed form having a a center cast relief knop in a four legged Beast form surrounded ...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Tang Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Nepalese Rock Crystal Stupa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Nepalese Rock Crystal Stupa. Carved from one solid piece of Himalayan Quartz that is clear in color with inclusions and matrix lines. The form is identified as the Jangchub Chorten d...
Category
20th Century Nepalese Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Rock Crystal
Traditional Silk Shaman’s Shoulder Cloth, Tai Daeng, Houaphanh Province, Laos
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Traditional Silk Shaman’s Shoulder Cloth, Tai Daeng, Houaphanh Province, Laos. This is a man/woman healing cloth or shaman’s shawl, so named as the center se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Laotian Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
Antique Large Burmese Hsun-ok
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Large Burmese Hsun-ok, a ceremonial food offering box to present to a monastery, a covered cylindrical stupa box form decorated in Mandalay style with mirrored glass, raised ...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Vintage Javanese Kain Panjang and Matching Selendang Batik Tulis, Cirebon
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Panjang and Matching Selendang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1960.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a traditional flora and fauna pa...
Category
1960s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Savunese Ikat Sarong (Ei)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Savunese Ikat Sarong (Ei), a tubular warp ikat cotton ankle length garment with two large wide decorative bands with five large abstract (Hubi Ae) floral motifs in reserve on...
Category
Late 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Asian Bronze Temple Vessel
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A wonderful large Southeast Asian Bronze Temple vessel. It is a heavy cast bronze ceremonial vessel of impressive scale, the lobed body encircled by repeated reliefs of a stylized Ga...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Indonesian Vintage Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Indonesian Vintage Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960.
A traditional hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton, dyed in three colors. beige, dark indigo blue an...
Category
1960s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Vintage Thai Howdah-style Meditation Chair
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Thai Howdah-style Meditation Chair, teak, lacquer, gold leaf, Mid-20th century. A highly decorative and ornately carved throne, evocative of the ro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Thai Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, 1500.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Annamese Blue and White Ceramic Dish, Bird Design, Chu Dau kiln, Vietnam, circa 1500. A sturdily potted plate with raised rim, decorated in under glaze cobalt ...
Category
16th Century Vietnamese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Pernakan Kain Panjang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1950
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Pernakan Kain Panjang Batik Tulis, Cirebon, Java 1950.
A fine hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a traditional Java north coast Pernakan zig-zag pattern w...
Category
1950s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Japanese bronze image of Tanjo no Shaka
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese bronze image of Tanjo no Shaka, the infant Buddha (Shakyamuni), a standing figure with the right hand pointing towards heaven and the left hand pointing toward earth, costum...
Category
1850s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1950
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1950.
A traditional meticulously hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton of a spirited phoenix pattern inters...
Category
1950s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Japanese Kuruma-dansu
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Kuruma-dansu, a wheeled storage chest traditionally kept in the Kura (storeroom) for the specific purpose of containing valuables, thus the wheeled carriage for a quick exit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
$9,000
Burmese Dry Lacquer Buddha Head
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Burmese Dry Lacquer Head from a seated Buddha image, Shan States. The black lacquer head with enigmatic smiling expression, downcast eyes, over arching eyebrows, yellow glass inset h...
Category
1920s Burmese Other Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Lacquer
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Landscape by Kano Tokinobu, 17th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Suibokuga Landscape by Kano Tokinobu. 17th century.
A sumi-e ink on paper painting illustrating an ethereal mountainous landscape at the seashore containing buildings, trees, birds and ship masts. 3 vermillion seals of the artist in the lower right hand corner. Japanese dry mount paper on a wood frame with thin brocade border silver leafed surround and lacquered wood outer frame.
Condition: Minor signs of age, wear, otherwise fine condition.
Age: Painting Edo Period, circa 1670. Mounting circa 1985.
Image: 51-1/2 in. x 20-1/2 in. (131cm x 52cm)
Frame: 59-1/4 in. x 25-1/4 in. (150cm x 64cm)
Weight: 6 lbs.
Provenance:
with Honeychurch Antiques...
Category
1670s Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Paper
Khmer Pedestal Jar, 12th century
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Pedestal Jar, 12th century. A sturdily potted earthenware globular form on a raised and waisted pedestal base decorated with bands at the shoulder and tightly packed applied pe...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique ceramic covered box from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand of paneled globular form with a brown glazed flat top having incised bands around ...
Category
16th Century Thai Tribal Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Japanese Dai
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Dai, a display stand used in the tokonoma, a large section of root burl possibly Sugi (Cryptomeria japonica), a beautiful golden color wo...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Organic Modern Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Burl
$1,500
Antique Chinese Guan-type Meiping, 19th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Guan-type Meiping, 19th century. A well-potted small porcelain vase with broad shoulder, narrow waist, short narrow neck and everted lip. The glazed base countersunk ...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Khmer Bird Shaped Lime Pot
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Lime Pot. A small squat globular stoneware jarlet in the form of a bird covered in a brown glaze stopping short of the elevated foot displaying the sandy beige biscuit, an owl...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kain Batik Tulis, Solo (Surakarta), Java, 1960.
A traditional meticulously hand drawn wax resist painting by canting on cotton, dyed in two colors; a fine line of ...
Category
1960s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Antique Chinese Porcelain Bencharong Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Chinese Porcelain Bowl for the Thai Market, 18th century.
Bencharong enamel decoration with Buddhist imagery on a black background. This classic porcelain bowl form having a raised narrow foot rim and slightly everted mouth rim is richly decorated in bright polychrome enamels much favored by the nobility in eighteenth century Siam. This colorful style became known as “bencharong”, a term that derives from two Sanskrit words – panch (‘five’) and rong (‘colour’) and which relates to the number of colours used to decorate such porcelain. This bowl is decorated with typically Thai motifs. The sides are decorated with four Thepanom (Buddhist celestial beings) each wearing a broad necklace of petals and seated on a lotus within triangular cartouches that have a coral-red ground. Four Norasingh (mythical forest-dwelling semi-deity with a human head, torso, and arms but with the hind-quarters of a lion and the tail and hoofs of a deer) against black back grounds filled with flaming pink kranok motifs. This design is framed by two floral bands top and bottom and another double band on the interior mouth rim. The interior glazed in a soft turquoise green and remnants of a floral pattern roundel on center. Sets of porcelain such as this example were commissioned from the Jingdezhen kilns in China and exported to Thailand.
6-7/8 in. in diameter x 3-5/8 high (17.5 x 9cm)
16.7 oz. (475g.)
Ayutthaya Period, 18th century.
Provenance:
German Private Collection.
For similar examples see:
William Warren & Luca Invernizzi Tettoni, Arts and Crafts of Thailand, Chronicle Books, San Francisco 1994, p.33.
Bonhams New York, Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Art, 17 Sep. 2014, lot 180 With the following notes: Bencharong porcelains...
Category
18th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Hand Dyed Cotton Batik Slendang (Selendang), Java
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Hand Dyed Cotton Batik Slendang (Selendang), Java. A length of cotton fabric used as a shoulder cloth, hand dyed in three colors: the base dyed golden yellow overall then a v...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Other Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Antique Burmese Buddhist Opposing Pair of Bronze Monks, Shan States
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Burmese Buddhist Opposing Pair of Bronze Monks, Shan States. The figures are often referred to as Moggollana and Sariputta. Two smooth bronze kneeling male figures rendered a...
Category
Late 19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Antique Burmese Karaweik 20 Tical Market Weight
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Burmese 10 tical A-le, a zoomorphic form bronze market weight often referred to as an “opium weight”, in the form of a Karaweik, a Burmese crane with characteristic pointed b...
Category
19th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Japanese Rosewood Square Tea Table
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Rosewood Square Tea Table in Chinese style having tapered legs with bracket hoof feet, elbowed cross struts and center floating panel. Minor shrinkage, surface scratches, an...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Rosewood
Antique ceramic box with cover from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique ceramic box with cover from the Sawankhalok kilns, Thailand of shouldered globular form with a flat top having incised foliate vine plant d...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Thai Tribal Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Arakanese Gilt Lacquered Bronze Mahakyain phara (Royal Oath) Buddha Image
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Arakanese Gilt Lacquered Bronze Mahakyain phara (Royal Oath) Buddha Image, a seated figure depicted in the bhumisparsa (earth touching) mudra, with small “fruit” in left hand, a maje...
Category
17th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze, Gold Leaf
Antique Khmer Bird Shaped Ceramic Lime Pot
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Khmer Ceramic Lime Pot. A squat globular stoneware jarlet in the form of a bird covered in a thick dark brown glaze stopping short of the elevated string cut foot displaying the beig...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Cambodian Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Antique Javanese Silk Batik Slendang
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Javanese Silk Batik Slendang (Selendang). A shoulder cloth length of compact hand spun silk imported from China. The flora & fauna design crea...
Category
Early 20th Century Javanese Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
A Set of Two Chinese Rosewood and Burlwood Curio Display Stands
Located in Point Richmond, CA
A Set of Two Chinese Rosewood and Burlwood Curio Display Stands, tall pedestal form with thin legs and delicate pierced work apron in a ruyi vine design, elbowed cross stretchers nea...
Category
19th Century Chinese Qing Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Vintage Indonesian Kemben Batik Tulis (Breast cloth), Jogja (Yogyakarta), Java
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Indonesian Kemben Batik Tulis (Breast cloth), Jogja (Yogyakarta), Java 1970.
This kemben batik has a hand-drawn design on cotton by wax resist canting. The traditional ceremo...
Category
1970s Javanese Folk Art Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Set of Three Antique Thai Bronze Lime Boxes
Located in Point Richmond, CA
TA04027 Set of Three Antique Thai Bronze Lime Boxes. Tall Cylinders of varying shapes and sizes:
A) Thai Bronze Lime Container in the shape of a Stupa, u...
Category
Early 20th Century Thai Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bronze
Vintage Japanese Obi, abstract wave pattern gold on white
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Vintage Japanese Obi. Gold kinran abstract wave pattern on a diagonal white on white brocade ground, continuous on one side, center section lined on the reverse side.
Minor signs of...
Category
Late 20th Century Japanese Taisho Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Metallic Thread
Antique Japanese Buddhist Lacquered Wood Temple Stand
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Japanese Lacquered Wood Temple Stand. An open panel style rectangular table with black lacquered top, lacquered and gold leafed base having chased gilt metal side fittings, ...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Western Han Painted Grey Earthenware Standing Female Tomb Figure
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Chinese Painted Grey Earthenware Standing Female Tomb Figure, Western Han Dynasty.
The tall slender court lady stands with knees and elbows slightly bent to reveal the hands, now lost with sockets remaining. The detachable rounded head has a delicately modeled face with small features and painted accents. The neck serves as an extended plug into the neckline of the hollow body ata slight cant as if eyes are downcast and bowing. The hair full at the hairline in form and painted black continuing on the back of the body on center to the waist. The body form of draped layers of long robes, crossing left over right over sloping shoulders with a stiff collar, deep full sleeves tied with a sash low on the waist and trumpet flared at the base, all outlined in red, white and black pigments. Custom black silk storage box in Chinese hinged lid style.
Weight: 15.5 lbs.
Western Han Dynasty 206 B.C. - A.D. 9
Thermoluminescence testing of head and body with Bortolot Daybreak Corporation, Guilford, CT, 1989 sample #379A1. Date of firing 2300 +/- 600 years ago.
Provenance:
Upon Request
For similar examples see:
Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Vol. 9, 1975, pl. 8 & 9.
Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Vol. 1, 1976 p.53, pl.123
Sotheby’s New York, The Bernat Collection, November 1980, lot # 19. With hands covered and folded in front of the figure.
Yutaka Mino and James Robinson, Beauty and Tranquility: The Eli Lilly...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Chinese Han Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Clay
Antique Shan (Tai Yai) Jambupati Buddha Image
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Antique Shan (Tai Yai) Jambupati Buddha Image, wood, lacquer and gold leaf, Konbaung Empire (1752-1885)
A crowned style that displays Northern Thai iconography merged with the aesthetic of Burmese rule in the region. The figure is depicted in the popular Theravada seated position of padmasana, (interlocking legs position) and the hand mudra in bhumisparsa (earth touching) wherein the feet are souls up, the fingers of the right hand extend beyond the right shin and the left hand palm up resting above the lap. Remnants of the leaf-like kirita crown remain. The image is dressed in Burmese royal costume with thayo rolled lacquer relief decoration modeled into cuffs, epaulettes, knee pads and a detailed “U” shaped necklace covering the chest. There is also a lappet of clothing between the legs draping down toward the base. The figure is seated upon a tall and waisted throne pedestal having rows of lotus petal grooves on the diagonal portions . The base and body are carved from one solid piece of hard wood. All covered in black lacquer with thayo lacquer details, red pigment for the lips and gold leaf overall.
The Jambupati style Buddha illustrates the tale of the Buddha’s life when he came across the arrogant King Jambupati, a king who terrorized his subjects and who lacked humility and compassion for his people. The Buddha on meeting the King asked that he forsake his evil ways and instead practice kindness to his fellow man. Ignoring the Buddha’s request, the King continued to terrorize the people. The Buddha then in his efforts to change the King of his evil ways, one day magically appeared to him in resplendent royal attire. King Jambupati was in awe of the Buddha’s appearance prostrated himself in obeisance and from that day onward accepted the Buddhist precepts. In Southeast Asian countries like Burma, where rulers have very high if not semi-divine status, tales of this type, reinforced the need for the leader to worship the Buddha, the King of Kings.
Condition: Heavy deterioration of the underside of the base as well as the interior portion of the crown, other losses include crown flanges, the crown spire, earrings, the tip of the left thumb, one base corner edge, rolled lacquer losses and general wear of the gold leaf surface, all commensurate with age and wear.
Measuring: 22.25 in. high x 8.75 in. wide x 7.75 in. deep(56.5cm x 22.2cm x 29.7cm).
Weight: 10.8 lbs.
Age: Late 18th century.
Provenance: Lark...
Category
Late 18th Century Burmese Other Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Gold Leaf
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Merchant’s chest (choba-dansu), Toyama, the front entirely constructed of keyaki (Zelkova serrata), original fuki-urushi lacquer fini...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Hardwood
Antique Japanese Rosoku-tate or Shokudai (candle stand)
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Japanese Rosoku-tate or Shokudai (candle stand) a lathe turned wood in a slender baluster form with attached concave circular base and broad circular wood candle base tapering down ...
Category
17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Wood
Large Vintage Burmese Red Lacquered Offering Tray
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Large Vintage Burmese Red Lacquered Offering Tray, referred to as a “Dang Lan” crafted of woven and assembled bamboo covered in a thick red and black lacquer, having thin strips of b...
Category
1950s Burmese Other Vintage Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Bamboo, Lacquer
Large Japanese Imari Porcelain Charger
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Hand painted porcelain Japanese Imari charger plate with birds, tree branches and floral motif.
Category
1890s Japanese Antique Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Porcelain
4-Color Plangi and Tritik Silk Shawl, Palembang, Sumatra
Located in Point Richmond, CA
4-Color Plangi and Tritik Silk Shawl, Palembang, Sumatra.
A rectangular lightweight silk textile with decoration by means of plangi (rainbow tie-dye) and tritik (stitched and gathere...
Category
Early 20th Century Indonesian Tribal Palm Springs - Asian Art and Furniture
Materials
Silk
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From cherry-blossom-adorned walls paired with glamorous lighting to wood-paneled ceilings above checkerboard-patterned chairs, these 12 spaces seamlessly blend Eastern and Western aesthetics.
Rodrigo Rivero Lake’s Mexico City Showroom Is a Museum-Worthy Trove of Spanish Colonial and Asian Antiques
The dealer and curator has spent the past 50 years amassing a collection of exceptional art, furniture and architectural elements that trace the cultural influence of the Spanish empire from Europe to the Americas and beyond.
16 Refined Asian-Inspired Interiors
These spaces exemplify how Eastern elements elevate a home's decor.