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Architectural Qing Panel Carved with Auspicious Symbols Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 980111 (stock# 24-98)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $690  A 19th century Chinese red lacquered wood panel is carved with the gods of happiness, prosperity and longevity surrounded by lively attendants running to and fro in a garden scene. Gold leaf applied sparingly over the lacquer adds richness and depth to the carving. The panel is in two parts, with the gods and their retinue carved in relief on the upper section, and fine pierced carving on the bottom section, with beautifully executed symbolic icons: a peony representing honor and masculinity is ...click for details Round Panel Carved with Chinese Opera Scene Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 941725 (stock# 35-92)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $250  Chinese opera characters are carved in relief on this late 19th century wood roundel. The central character strokes his beard and looks pleased; the figure on the right thrusts his drinking cup aloft. In the background, a barefoot servant runs off holding a small scroll. A bat, Chinese emblem of good fortune, is carved into the base of the piece. While the two main characters on the roundel are in excellent condition, the figure of the running servant is inexplicably worn on the face (see photo ...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)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 SOLD  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 Japanese Ranma Carved Wood Panel Headboard Size Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Furniture: Pre 1910   item# 914262 (stock# 62-26)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $560  This Meiji era ranma, an interior transom, was an integral part of the architecture of an old Japanese frame house. Within those houses, moveable partitions of wide sliding doors (fusuma) were used to define rooms, allowing the flexible use of space. The ranma was suspended above the fusuma to fill a gap between the tops of the doors and the ceiling. Pierced carvings on these wood transoms facilitated circulation of air and light throughout the house as well as adding a decorative element. Carve ...click for details Two Relief Carved Wood Flower Panels Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 892964 (stock# 54-71)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $180  Two rectangular wood panels from late 19th century China are hand carved with vases, flowers and graceful trailing foliage in deep relief, each carving set within a cartouche and showcased with gilding applied over dark pomegranate red. These panels once were part of an interior window or door or perhaps integrated into a large piece of furniture. Such panels are often referred to as “temple carvings” because some of them were part of Buddhist temple architecture, rescued as China’s old buildin ...click for details Mirror with 19th Century Chinese Fretwork Panel Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1900   item# 855585 (stock# 58-25)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 SOLD  Finely carved and fitted fretwork in this 19th century Chinese interior window panel is emphasized by the addition of a mirror. The abstract winged shapes surround a circle that seems to float within the fretwork. Many thousands of different fretwork patterns such as this were created in China for use as architectural or decorative elements. The hand carved wood pieces on this panel and on all antique Chinese fretwork are closely fitted and held together in a puzzle-like fashion without glue or ...click for details Thai Lanna Carved Teak Roof Ornament Catalogue: Popular Collectibles: Cultural: Thai: Pre 2000   item# 832718 (stock# 57-81)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $275  This soaring form, called a gaelae (galae), is seen in Northern Thailand on the peaked rooftops of houses and other structures built by the Thai Lanna people. On old buildings gaelae are extensions of the ends of roof beams crossed to form a V-shape. On newer houses they usually are separate carvings such as this one and are attached to the peaks of the steep roofs after the basic structure is completed. As to their original use, the most commonly heard explanation is that they were meant to di ...click for details Japanese Meiji Blue and White Ceramic Benki Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Japanese: Stoneware: Pre 1900   item# 805132 (stock# 18-46)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $890  Salvaged from a Japanese ryokan (inn), this late Meiji blue and white ceramic benki moves easily to a second life as a handsome plant holder or fountain. Western expatriates in the Far East, particularly in Japan, have a long history of adapting utilitarian items with appealing Asian design to inventive new uses, and this is one of the most unusual items to be adapted. This benki, with its cobalt blue patterns, is recognizable as Japanese at first glance but its original use as a urinal is not a ...click for details Qing Fretwork Pair of Rosewood Architectural Panels Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 797804 (stock# 24-90)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $740  A pair of architectural panels from 19th century China have an elegantly simple fretwork design. Made of rosewood, the half-round pieces comprising the pattern are fitted together to form curving lines that emphasize the soft sheen of the smooth wood surfaces. Four abstract trees can be seen in the fretwork pattern. In China, these pieces may have been rescued from interior windows of an old house that was demolished, or they may have been part of a large canopied marriage bed. Both panels are ...click for details Large Carved Teak Naga with Kinnari Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Folk Art: Pre 1900   item# 789412 (stock# 12-93)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $550  A sinuous carved teakwood naga, nearly three feet in length, carries a half bird, half man kinnari braced in front of its long curved naga neck like a ship's figurehead. This late 19th century folk carving, resplendent with symbolism, once graced the front of a Burmese bullock cart. A primary means of family transportation in old Burma, wood bullock carts were customized with carved iconic figures meant to ensure the well being of family members. This naga carries figures representing the fa ...click for details Buddhist Monastery Architectural Carved Wood Panels Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Wood: Pre 1920   item# 777103 (stock# 64-29)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $895  Two triangular teakwood panels that formed an altar rail in a Buddhist monastery in Burma are carved with kinnara and kinnari, important mythical figures in the iconography of many countries in Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. This early 20th century carving bordered a raised sacred area in the monastery and was likely just one of several other pairs surrounding such spaces. (See a photo of a similar altar rail in "Burmese Crafts Past and Present" by Sylvia Fraser-Lu, Oxford ...click for details Architectural Etching of a Scale by Levan Mekhouzla Catalogue: Fine Art: Prints: Etchings: Pre 2000   item# 764434 (stock# 12-82)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $600  Artist Levan Mekhouzla merges lyrical with architectural and East with West in this quiet etching of a simple scale. Mekhouzla lives and works in his native Tbilisi in the Republic of Georgia as well as in Paris, and his work is exhibited throughout Europe. Early training as an architect forms the foundation for his carefully executed etchings and lithographs, which he then softens with whimsy. Influences from Tbilisi, where Asia blends with Europe, also inform his work, and he often includes no ...click for details Chinese Carved Martial Arts Scenes Wood Panel Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 721542 (stock# 24-41)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $250  A late Qing relief-carved wood panel has ten figures in martial arts poses. Trees and rocks frame two scenes. Touches of original gilding remain on the figures and define foliage in the top scene. The panel once was part of a larger piece such as a screen or perhaps a bench. It shows uneven wear, with the only the two figures at bottom right worn and weathered so that their features are no longer distinct. Overall, this late 19th century panel is in quite good and solid condition. Dimensions: he ...click for details Chinese Carved Wood Chi Lin Panel Catalogue: Antiques: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Architectural Elements: Pre 1900   item# 719473 (stock# 10-08)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 $350  A 19th century panel carved in deep relief is centered with an official riding a chi lin, a mythical beast that was an ancient Chinese symbol of high rank. Part unicorn, part dragon, part lion, the chi lin is carefully carved with regal head, a flowing three-pronged tail and scales. Two attendants stand by on either side of the rider holding a fan and tray of food. The ends of the panel are carved with graceful flowers--lotus, emblem of fruitfulness on one end; peonies, omen of good fortune on t ...click for details Carved Panel With Chinese Longevity Symbols Catalogue: Archives: Regional Art: Asian: Chinese: Pre 1910   item# 703045 (stock# 54-68)  click for details Silk Road Gallery (203) 208-0771 SOLD  A wood panel carved in relief conveys wishes for a long and joyous life with five familiar Chinese symbols for longevity. The late 19th/early 20th century panel once was part of a decorative screen or perhaps a large piece of furniture. Framed, the carving becomes an unusual and handsome representation of wishes for good fortune. The symbols are carved within a cartouche and have the supernatural quality of Chinese folklore. A fox in a pine tree takes on a half-human form, relating to Chinese fo ...click for details pages:  1   2    3    4