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Orchid and Bamboo Pair Chinese Brush Paintings Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 999275 (stock# 29-54)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $300
The orchid and bamboo, classic Chinese brush paintings, were prized by Chinese scholars who positioned the paintings prominently in their studios because, they said, the nature of the orchid and bamboo closely mimicked laudable human virtues. Orchids represented love, beauty and refinement, and bamboo stood for longevity and durability. They were among the four plants the literati identified as “Noble Paragons.” (Also included were the chrysanthemum and plum blossoms.) These two paintings are on ...click for details

Hand Hammered Bronze Burmese Gong Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 985475 (stock# 55-25)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $230
This hand hammered bronze gong from Burma emits a mid-range mellow tone when struck at the center of its starburst pattern with a padded mallet. Hanging circular gongs of this sort are used in a Burmese orchestra, where an ornate lacquered wood gong circle, called a “kyi waing” surrounds 20 or so gongs of graduated sizes and tones. Gongs of various sizes also are used for Buddhist rites in temples and monasteries throughout Burma. When created for use as musical instruments, these carefully hand ...click for details

Burmese Colonial Period Bronze Figure Oil Lamp Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1940 item# 972160 (stock# 63-88)
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A bronze oil lamp that dates to the latter years of Burma’s British colonial period (1890-1941) is built around the figure of a smiling Burman holding out a small oil receptacle. The piece, nearly two feet in height, has a decidedly art deco look, in spite of the figure’s native dress. According to Sylvia Fraser-Lu in her book, “Burmese Crafts Past and Present,” British colonial administrators had little appreciation for indigenous Burmese art but they acknowledged the superior metalworking abil ...click for details

Large Sitting Mandalay Buddha Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1980 item# 969594 (stock# 10-78)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $890
This graceful Mandalay Buddha, nearly two feet in height, seems to float above its low double lotus throne. The floating effect is achieved with the robe, edged in a Burmese lacquer technique called thayo that ripples lightly across the wide pedestal and cascades in loose folds down the front and back of the slender figure’s left shoulder. The face is serene, with wide downcast eyes and finely executed nose and mouth. Carved of Burmese teak, the surface is a rich red/brown, sealed with a light ...click for details

Buddhist Monk Painted on Bodhi Leaf Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 948408 (stock# 41-27)
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The gentle face of a Buddhist monk from Burma is painted on a large leaf from a Bodhi tree. The Bodhi leaf, with its distinctive shape, is an important element of Buddhist iconography in Southeast Asia as Buddha is said to have attained enlightenment while meditating under a Bodhi (also called Bo) tree. In this painting, the monk’s expressive face appears to be looking through the leaf, adding an almost magical aura. The leaf rests on black cloth, and the work is unsigned. Painted in the late 2 ...click for details

Silver Pipe of Lawa Hill Tribe People Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Metalwork: Pre 1980 item# 945150 (stock# 40-09)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $160
This silver and clay pipe is from a Lawa tribal group living in northern Thailand. (For Lawa pipes similar to this one, see “Peoples of the Golden Triangle,” by Paul and Elaine Lewis, Thames and Hudson, 1998, p. 66.) The Lawa, also called Lua or Wa/Lawa, are a lowland people, one of the smaller tribal groups among the hill tribes of Thailand, Burma and Laos. The black clay bowl on this pipe is in pristine condition, suggesting it replaced earlier bowls that were affixed to the old curved silver ...click for details

Samarkand Wall Terracotta Dragon with Two Heads Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Central Asian: Pre 1980 item# 940023 (stock# 23-98)
click for details		Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $140
This two-headed terracotta dragon is a replica of dragons that topped walls surrounding the ancient Central Asian city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The Samarkand wall and its dragons, though long gone, seem to occupy a place in the collective memories of the polyglot population of present-day Uzbekistan. This piece was made by a Tajik artisan who lives near Samarkand, and is a small representation of the long, rich and often perplexing history of Central Asia. Neither the artisan nor anyone else w ...click for details

Royal Shan Buddha Seated on Lotus Throne Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1950 item# 933778 (stock# 11-05)
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A royal Buddha, with right thumb and forefinger forming a circle, the vitarka mudra, sits in lotus position on a high double lotus throne. The vitarka gesture, sign of the Buddhist wheel of law, signifies intellectual discussion of philosophy and doctrine. This is one of several variations of the mudra, also conveyed with the circle sign given by the hand raised with palm outward, or the hand palm up resting in the lap. This figure, carved of dense Burmese teak wood, is attired in the distinc ...click for details

Round Architectural Panel Chinese Cracked Ice Fretwork Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Furniture: Pre 1980 item# 933215 (stock# 60-93)
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A large 42-inch diameter architectural window panel is constructed with the striking Chinese fretwork pattern called “cracked ice” or “broken glass.” The openwork gives this intricately fitted elm wood piece a light and airy look. Centering the fretwork is a pierced carving of a seated woman holding a fan. She is surrounded by a garden of finely carved trees and rocks set against a carved key design background. This circular garden scene is bordered with scrolling and, at the top, two bats, s ...click for details

Standing Mandalay Buddha Carved Teak Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Sculpture: Pre 1940 item# 924655 (stock# 62-25)
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A tall teak Mandalay Buddha has an elegantly draped robe with a deep edging of thayo, a lacquering technique used for centuries by Burmese artisans to create the look and feel of intricate wood carving. The forehead band and tightly curled hair over the wide Mandalay unisha are also thayo, lacquer thickened with bone ash that dries to the hardness of wood. A thin brown/red lacquer applied over the carved teak allows the grain of the dense native wood to show, and traces of gold add richness to t ...click for details

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