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This piece was unearthed in Henan, a province in central China’s Yellow River Valley, almost a century ago. Often recognized as the place where Chinese civilization originated, this piece is from the Han Dynasty (circa 200 B.C.). This period was the golden age of Chinese culture,…
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- Item Number: S-7739
- Provenance/Origin: Henan. Han Dynasty (circa 200 BC)
- Composition: Terracotta. Clay. Coloring.
- Dimensions: 5" tall x 3.5" wide x 3.5" deep
- Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Price: $ 395.00 USD
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Hand-carved marble head of Guanyin, the Buddhist bodhisattva associated with compassion. The expression is priceless and the headgear / crown with an engraved Buddha is a real bonus.
Acquired from a jeweler in Beverly Hills California who has had it since the 1970s, when he…
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- Item Number: S-2232
- Provenance/Origin: Hebei China. Early 1900s
- Composition: Marble and rosewood stand
- Dimensions: 8" tall (14.25" on stand) x 5" wide x 5" deep
- Weight: 8.25 pounds
- Price: $ 665.00. USD
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In the early spring of 1974, workers sinking a well in Xiyang Village suddenly discovered an ancient bronze weapon and pieces of broken terracotta armored warriors. That was the start. Within two years, three pits were found and within 8,000 terracotta warriors, horses and more than 100…
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- Item Number: S-4230
- Provenance/Origin: China. Age unknown.
- Composition: Terracotta
- Dimensions: 17" tall x 8.5" wide x 10" deep
- Weight: 28 pounds including stand
- Price: $ 995.00 USD
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Such terracotta and clay sculptures were made to serve a strictly funerary purpose, honoring – as well as commemorating – the dead. This head may represent a deceased man. It may have stood alone or have been part of a group of figures in or around the…
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- Item Number: S-1054
- Provenance/Origin: Akan. Ghana. Circa early 1900s
- Composition: Clay
- Dimensions: 7" tall x 5" wide x 5" deep
- Weight: 2 pounds
- Price: $ 185.00 USD
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Ashanti peoples – a major ethnic group of the Akans – transformed physicality to their beliefs about death and the afterlife through the medium of clay. From the second half of the sixteenth century, terracotta sculpture produced primarily by Ashanti women played a role in funerary rites .…
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- Item Number: S-3945
- Provenance/Origin: Central Ghana. Ashanti. Age unknown.
- Composition: Clay
- Dimensions: 8" tall on base x 5" wide x 4.5" deep
- Weight: 1.25 pounds
- Price: $ 115.00 USD
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Shakyamuni aka Gautama Buddha was the founder of Buddhism. Shakya was the tribe/clan to which his family belonged. . He was the son of Shuddhodana, the king of the Shākyas, a small tribe whose kingdom was located in the foothills of the Himalayas, south of…
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- Item Number: S-1874
- Provenance/Origin: Guilin City. China. Circa early 1900s
- Composition: Wood
- Dimensions: 8.5" tall x 5.5" wide x 5.5" deep. On stand: 11" tall
- Weight: 3.25 pounds with stand
- Price: $ 120.00 USD
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In the early spring of 1974, workers sinking a well in Xiyang Village suddenly discovered an ancient bronze weapon and pieces of broken terracotta armored warriors. That was the start. Within two years, three pits were found and within 8,000 terracotta warriors, horses and more than…
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- Item Number: S-6259
- Provenance/Origin: China. Age unknown.
- Composition: Terracotta. Clay.
- Dimensions: 14" tall x 10" wide x 9" deep
- Weight: 21 pounds including tubular stand
- Price: $ 885.00 USD
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Original pieces from ancient Egypt are almost impossible to acquire at a reasonable price. And there are the issues of importing, exporting, authentication and language.
With that said, here is an item that is old…
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- Item Number: S-7835
- Provenance/Origin: Swenett / Aswan Village
- Composition: Limestone and coloring
- Dimensions: 11" tall x 5" widest x 5" deep
- Weight: 7 pounds
- Price: $ 375.00 USD
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: 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…
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- Item Number: S-2026
- Provenance/Origin: Greece
- Composition: Casting Stone
- Dimensions: 9.5" tall x 5" wide x 6" deep
- Weight: 4.25 pounds
- Price: $ 96.00 USD
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A Majapahit Kingdom – one of the last major Hindu empires of the Malay archipelago – in eastern Java from 1293 to around 1500. The Majapahit society developed a high degree of sophistication in both commerical and artistic activities . . . yielding a cosmopolitan population…
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- Item Number: S-7183
- Provenance/Origin: Majapahit Empire influence. Likely Bali. Age: at a minimum 150 years old
- Composition: Sandstone on wood base
- Dimensions: Head: 6.5" tall x 6" wide x 6" deep. On Base: 16" tall
- Weight: 12.5 pounds
- Price: $ 395.00 USD
