Japan, an attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a pair of lovable puppies, signed, early 20th century Dimensions: Scroll 24 inches wide and 46 inches length. We will include a compliemtary custom wooden tomobako wooden storage case Provenance: collected in Nagoya and attributed to a Hokkado Ainu Artisan Hard to find subject matter in...

Here’s a wonderful find from our most recent acquisitions trip to Japan. We were fortunate and excited to find this Art Deco period pair of one-of-a kind hand-carved, hand lacquered red and gilt embellished temple wooden benches. The white elephant bench and matching shi-shi komainu red painted temple lion both originally came from a temple...

China, a large jade Bi disk measure: 14.75” diameter and .75” thick, Qijia culture (2200-1700 BCE) The thick round heavenly ritual jade of a medium mottled green jade stone partially altered and retaining thin remnant sections inside the central hole. A complimentary custom-made display Stand is included. Examined by Gu Fang, Senior Fellow of the...

China, an authentic antique hand-carved and hand-painted limestone temple figure of the venerable lohan, the joyful Ananda. Substantial dimensions: 35 inches high and 12 inches wide Handmade and hand-carved, solid limestone with weathered remnants of older temple paint as applied by the temple from where it originally came, Chengdu, China. Stone statues like these were...

This Chinese extraordinary natural stone painting of a mountain range in white and gray colors is called a dream stone, “shih-hua”. They are cut from historic Dali marble found in the Cangshan mountains of western China. These mysterious mountains, unique in the world, are known for yielding incredible and fantastic natural landscaped works of art...

From Italy and Murano comes this charming large scale, solid hand blown glass seated Meditating Buddha It is a rare one-of-a-kind sculpture executed with gold flecking and high lights by maestro Giancarlo Signoretto, about 1985 Dimensions: 15 inches high Signature: signed with original label still attached and located on the front base Giancarlo Signoretto, about...

An excellent hardcovered primer that details Buddhas history, life, afterlife, and teachings; Buddhism’ basic philosophy, how to read the Buddha image, Cosmic Buddhas, and much more. Ninety six pages including forty five superb and selected four color Buddha images from the museum’s renown collection, juxtaposed with atmospheric photographs taken at international Buddhist sites. Simple, concise, well illustrated, a must...

China important ancient standing figure of Buddha, limestone, 60″h. x 19″w. x 10″deep, Tang Dynasty (618-907AD), superb patina with original traces of ancient gold gilding the serene figure shown standing with right hand raised in Varadamudra and left hand extended in sign of charity and compassion, wearing a simple dhoti with ten folds, the right...

Eastern Han Dynasty (25 -220 CE),  Bronze “Money Tree” YAOQIAN SHU, Money for Heavenly After life , 62” in height.  Consisting of a sculpted pottery base, inserted with a segmented bronze pole and with twenty five hanging bronze open work money “branches” attached in tiers and mounted with a figure of a phoenix as apex.  Pottery...