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Six Teak Raffles Chairs
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Contemporary item# 186772 (stock# 27-37)
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These teak Raffles chairs come from Indonesia where chairs in this style are named for Sir Stamford Raffles, British colonial administrator in the Far East in the early 19th century. Raffles is remembered for discovering Borobodur, the magnificent Buddhist temple complex in central Java, and for documenting the cultural and classical history of Java. As with most contemporary and antique Javanese furniture in the colonial style, the chairs are primarily European in design with Javanese touches. ...click for details
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Monkey And Moon Painting, Korea, 1880
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Pre 1900 item# 175515 (stock# 53-34)
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A monkey sitting on a tree branch gazes soulfully at a full moon in this painting from late Yi Dynasty Korea that evokes an old folk tale. Paintings of particular animals related to beliefs rooted in Shamanism, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism were popular with all classes in Korea during the 18th and 19th centuries. Although sometimes put into the category of folk art, they more often than not were done by professional artists. In Korea, paintings that had content classifying them as "pop ...click for details
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Ming-Style Qing Stool
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Pre 1900 item# 175435 (stock# 58-77)
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The round legs and straight stretchers on this 19th century Qing stool are typical of the simple lines found in earlier Ming Dynasty furniture. In some areas of China, particularly in the north, the spare Ming design continued as a favored look throughout the Qing period. Stools in a wide array of sizes, designs, and woods were perhaps the most ubiquitous item of Chinese furniture, used in mansions and tiny village houses both indoors and out for a variety of purposes. In Western households, the ...click for details
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Primitive Batak Protector Mask 4
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Pre 1980 item# 172549 (stock# 16-42)
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This primitive carved mask is from the Batak people who live around mystical Lake Toba in the northern reaches of the island of Sumatra. The small collection of Batak protector masks pictured in this catalogue (see them all under our category "Tribal") shows the fascinating range of expressions artisans were able to achieve in these relatively simple carvings. This particular mask has the same network of red lines radiating around the eyes as mask #1 and mask #3 in this collection. The ...click for details
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