Burmese wooden Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base with gilded gold.

Age: Burma, Shan Period, 18th Century
Size: Height 44.8 C.M. / Width 15 C.M. / Depth 10.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Tai Yai Burmese wooden Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base with gilded gold and glass.

Age: Burma, Shan Period, 18th Century
Size: Height 63.5 C.M. / Width 27.8 C.M. / Depth 15 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Burmese wooden Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a base with gilded gold.

Age: Burma, Shan Period, 18th Century
Size: Height 65.5 C.M. / Width 26.7 C.M. / Depth 19 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Burmese wooden Buddha sitting in Mara Vijaya (calling the earth to witness) posture on a lotus base.

Age: Burma, Early Shan Period, Early 16th Century
Size: Height 53.4 C.M. / Width 34.3 C.M. / Depth 23 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

Three rare quartzite beads, carved in the shape of elephants. These were acquired in Burma about 40 years ago by Bucklee Bell contributor to the Peter Francis Bead Project dating circa 900CE or earlier. Please note scale is metric in last enlargement. Free shipping.

Unusual, late Ayutthaya or Early Rattanakosin Period Thailand Buddha head. The bronze has been cast with quite light bronze and the ears are made from copper strips and lacquered over. The face is quite atypical with Chinese characterisics, possibly a regional style. Please examine enlargements for condition. H: 22cm/8.7in (with stand 31cm).

Beautiful women’s apron style skirt from the Bahnar (Ba Na) ethnic group, Central Highlands of Vietnam. Woven from fine handspun cotton using all indigo and natural dyes. The weaving is very intricate and refined, note the use of narrow warp ikat bands throughout this piece. This piece is has small tear at the corner (see last enlargement) and a couple of frays but otherwise excellent condition and dates to 1960 to 1970...

A scarce Sawankhalok pottery kendi, 15th century, decorated in iron black with a lotus design. 14cm tall. Condition; good, excavated condition. No restorations. Provenance; ex Duke Melplash collection.

This piece was unearthed in Cambodia by the famous researcher Noriki Shimazu and exported to Japan, and there has been used as a tea container in Tea ceremony. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ct9y5DmyUU Size: 7.8(D) 5.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by Noriki Shimazu, silk pouch with old cloth

Pair of amulets, with typical faces and postures, legs slightly bent, unusual feet. Wood, with fine dark patina. Indonesia, Borneo Island, Dayak Peoples. Height: 21.8 cm. Very good condition. Provenance: acquired in Singapore from a dealer specialising in tribal art and antiques in 1982.

Rare and unusual 3 paneled piled blanket from the Rawang ethnic group, Kachin State, Burma. The ground is woven from hemp, the reddish head ends are dog hair .There are a few areas that have a bright colored commercial yarn but other than that, all natural dyes. In the red field there are some bits of missing weft noted in enlargements. This piece is circa 1950 (+/-), definitely old an old piece...

Collection of Thai Bronze Age aventurine jewelry pieces, from the Lopburi Culture, circa 500BCE, Central Thailand. 1#: Long rectangular bead, good transparency, damaged on one end and the lengthwise hole only goes from the undamaged end to the second hole. L: 6.6cm/2.6in and W: 7mm/.3in x 5mm/.2in. 2#: Fine small aventurine bangle from early Thai Bronze Age Culture circa 500 BCE . This item is slightly flattened at the bottom but in perfect original condition...

Lao, continuous supplementary weft “kit” woven festival banner. This is created from all handspun silk and natural dyes. I acquired in Vientiane, Laos in 2010, and this is highest quality of this type of weave available. Included is simple hand carved “elephant” textile hanger. An exceptional home décor accent piece. Please note I put a grain of rice in the last enlargement to highlight the detail of this work. L: 186cm/73in and W: 18cm/7in.

Burmese wooden elephant.

Age: Burma, 19th Century
Size: Height 31 C.M. / Width 20 C.M. / Length 34.5 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details.
Shipment: Worldwide shipping from Bangkok, Thailand at actual cost. Please e-mail us for the shipping fee.

An antique large bronze Laotian rain drum. Beautiful detailed relief work. Twelve pointed star in the top center of the drum. Four pairs of playful frogs decorate the rim. Two pairs of side handles to each opposing side. Age patina acquired over its very long age of use and display.

Age: 19th Century

Dimensions: 26 1/4" Diameter by 21 1/4" High

A fine woman's ceremonial sarong from Lampung Sumatra, woven in two parts, the striped cotton fabric decorated with couched gold-wrapped thread work and mica sequins. The four blue stripes embroidered in white and red silk threads. Condition: traces of age and usage, wear, missing mica sequins and threads, uncleaned, thin areas, few small holes. Dimension: 116.5 x 133.5 cm

Burmese wooden seated crowned Buddha, or sometimes known as 'King Buddha', wearing diadem-crowns and ornaments of kings instead of ordinary monk's robes.

Crowned Buddha represents the Buddha's role as a universal sovereign.

Age: Burma, Mandalay Period, 19th Century
Size: Height 31.8 C.M. / Width 17.4 C.M.
Condition: Nice condition overall (some expected degradation due to its age). Please refer to the enlargement photos for more details...

Indian mounted carved wood Yali with remindats of the original mineral finsih. Mounted on a antiqued bronze stand for display. Portrayed with the head and the body of a lion, the trunk and the tusks of an elephant, and sometimes bearing equine features

The yali is said to be a guardian creature, protecting human beings both physically and spiritually. It is regarded to be a fearless beast, possessing supremacy over the animal world...