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Round Chinese Architectural Fretwork Panel Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Furniture: Pre 1980 item# 1104319 (stock# 11-17)
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The fretwork in this vintage Chinese architectural panel combines both rounded and straight-edged pieces of elm wood to create a simple, elegant pattern. Large openwork panels such as this were handcrafted by artisans into many hundreds of fretwork designs and set within a variety of square, rectangle, round, hexagon and octagon frames to be used as interior windows in old Chinese houses, providing light, air circulation and a feeling of space. We have seen them recycled for present day archite ...click for details

Chinese Cracked Ice Fretwork Architectural Panel Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Furniture: Pre 1960 item# 1102247 (stock# 12-80)
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A large wood hexagon panel in the Chinese fretwork pattern known as “cracked ice” or “broken glass” has a light, airy look despite measuring nearly 32 inches (81 cm) in diameter. The piece is centered with a round carving of two birds in a flowering tree. Used as wall art, such fretwork brings texture and interest and makes a space appear larger. We have sold many versions of this fretwork pattern in round, hexagon, octagon, square and rectangle frames over the years, many of them antiques ori ...click for details

Orchid and Bamboo Pair Chinese Brush Paintings Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 999275 (stock# 29-54)
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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

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

Mongolian Feng Li Scholar Stone Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Scholar Art: Pre 1960 item# 816112 (stock# 60-01)
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This feng li (wind cut) viewing stone with its wonderful other-worldly surface is from Alashan Zuo Qi on the western end of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. There in the Gobi Desert, the dry winds and blowing sand shape stones with molten, craggy surfaces unlike those of scholar stones collected anywhere else in China. This one, called "The Old Man" by its previous owner, can indeed reveal with a little imagination a bent figure with a large and drooping head, his chin res ...click for details

Pair of Calligraphy Panels Celebrating Crane and Dragon Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1970 item# 815349 (stock# 33-33)
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These striking Chinese calligraphy panels celebrate two of the most magnificent creatures in Buddhist and Taoist legends--the crane and the dragon. Portraits of cranes, a most admired bird in China, and dragons, chief among reptiles, have appeared for centuries in temples and houses as symbols of admirable traits and good fortune. The calligraphy on one panel reads, "The sea is the world of the dragon," and the companion panel says, "The sky is the homeland of the crane." The ...click for details

Silk Mounted Chinese Calligraphy Panels Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 810505 (stock# 37-65)
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Two panels of Chinese calligraphy convey an exotic and compelling vision: “In the amber light . . . hear the sound of drums and dance and fly like a bird.” Written in free-flowing cursive script, these late 20th century panels are mounted on grey silk appropriate for framing or scrolling. A fascinating window into Chinese history, calligraphy began with oracle bone script in the 11th and 12 centuries BC and progressed through various styles of script—seal, clerical, standard, and cursive. Among ...click for details

Handmade Ceramic Tiles Picturing Playful Dragons Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Folk Art: Pre 1980 item# 795320 (stock# 55-82)
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Six vintage Chinese handmade ceramic tiles fit together to form dragons playing with a round flaming object that represents in traditional Chinese art a flaming pearl or the sun. The Chinese dragon is a beneficent creature. When shown with a horn, as the dragon on the left, it lives in the sky; hornless, as the dragon on right, it lives in the sea. (A third category, the dragon of the mountains, is identified by a body covered with scales.) There is a long history in China of making tiles that a ...click for details

Village Canal Bridge Watercolor by Zhao-Nian Xi Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Paintings: Pre 1980 item# 793558 (stock# 36-59)
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A village canal scene is done in tawny tones against a gauzy background by contemporary Shanghai painter Zhao-Nian Xi. The artist works primarily in watercolor on paper, and has focused particularly on small villages near Shanghai where life centers on a network of canals. He often chooses to leave portions of his scenes shrouded in mist as he did here with the top of the curved bridge and the more distant house. Zhao-Nian Xi was born in 1944 and was graduated from the Shanghai School of Fine Ar ...click for details

Chinese Filial Honor Folk Woodcut Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Folk Art: Pre 1980 item# 786953 (stock# 01-25)
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Filial respect, a cornerstone of Chinese culture, is portrayed in this woodblock print from the Huxian painting community in Shaanxi Province. Although sometimes attributed solely to Confucian thought, filial piety has been of paramount importance within all belief systems in China and throughout most other Asian countries as well. There is charm and nostalgia in this glimpse back into China's not very distant past. The woodcut was produced in a rural painting cooperative that was one of abo ...click for details

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