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Catalogue: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Folk Art (2)

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

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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