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Vintage Neoclassic Reclining Brass Lion Desk Lamp with Oval Black Shade

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    Maitland Smith produced two similar reclining lion lamps:  one that was shorter with a rectangular shade and this one.   This vintage brass lion desk lamp features a decorated pedestal, oval black shade, yellow cord and a pineapple finial.  This is authentic vintage and does have… Continue reading

Vintage Art Nouveau Hollywood Regency Brass Torchiere Table Lamp.   

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  The Hollywood Regency is an American interior design style born within the cinema industry between the 1920s and 1950s when the silver screen depicted luxurious spaces filled with drama and gilded glamour and celebrated the lavish living of Hollywood’s Golden Era.  The name “torchiere” comes from the French… Continue reading

Spanish Petroglyph.  Rock engraving.  Three Goddesses.  Oregon USA

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    This is a replica of an ancient design that dates to the Paleolithic age in Spain.  This dates the design to about 20,000 years ago.   We all know that some of the oldest petroglyphs found were located in Spain.  But this rendition of three “beings”… Continue reading

Castle Dragon Wall Sconce.  Up to 40 Watt Bulb.  Switch. COOOOL

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    Fun, fun, fun with or without Halloween around the corner.   Very detailed sculpted with designer resin . . . which is an elastomer based thermo plastic urethane type compound.   Yikes!   BUT,  the polymer does yield a highly detailed end product.  … Continue reading

Vintage. Lamp Finial.  Filigree.  Ormalu Gilded Brass.  Openwork. 

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    A stunning piece from early- to mid-1900s.  Filled with detail and openwork.   Ormalu is a gilding process of applying a finely grown amalgam to brass.  There is a small oxidation spot, shown in one of the photos.  Glass stand not included.

Wall and Shelf Plaque.  Aten.  Atenism.  Ra.  Akhenaten.  Sun / Sky God. Cone Heads.  Cast stone.

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    Ancient Egyptian paintings, coffins, masks, scrolls and other art are cluttered with images of worshipers with pointed cones on their noggins . . .  using offering something to above them.  Many of those worshipers were pregnant.   Even with these cone heads appearing all over ancient… Continue reading

Cartonnage Fragment Winged Scarab.  Authentic.  712-322 BCE.   Egypt

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    Cartonnage is an Egyptology and Papyrology term used to describe plastered layers of fiber or papyrus . . . flexible enough (when wet) to mold around irregular surfaces such as a body, cases, coffins, masks during the funerary process.  Such a finished flat surface allowed for painting… Continue reading

Framed Metal Art.  Head of Buchephalus.  A Parmakelis creation.   Alexander the Great.  Greece

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    Alexander the Great:  I’ve spent almost a year now researching him, his family, his enemies (who turned allies), his horse, his motivations, his mental state, his death, his art, his monuments and homes… and a lot more.   Complex, intriguing, fascinating . . . with many “no… Continue reading

Miniature Manjushri Thangka.  Scroll.  Printed.  Silk.  China.

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    Manjushri (aka The Gentle Glory) is the oldest / most significant Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism and is the embodiment of transcendent wisdom.   His right hand holds a flaming sword, which represents the sharpness of prajna that can cut through the growth of suffering and the net of… Continue reading

Quality Manjushri Thangka.  Thanka. Scroll.  Printed.  Silk.  China.

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    Manjushri – the oldest and most significant Bodhisattva in Mahayana Buddhism – is the embodiment of transcendent wisdom.   As a fully enlightened Bodhisattva, he is respected and worshipped as a “meditational” diety.  For those who meditate on him, he instructs in the Dharma and stimulates them… Continue reading
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