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Antique Chinese Kadai Carved Wood Table
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Pre 1920 item# 842844 (stock# MOR2499)
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980
1,600.00
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The Japanese have long collected and held in high esteem the arts and crafts of the continent, as evidenced by this carved wooden kadai display table found here in Kyoto, the ancient capitol of Japan. The small flower vase stand is hollowed out from a single slab of hardwood, possibly huanghuali, carved with a smooth top and curling limb-like pierced sides. The wood ripples across the top and demands to be stroked, with a smooth silk finish and deep amber color. It is 11-1/2 by 21 by 3 inches ...click for details
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Antique Chinese Scroll, The Butterfly Lovers
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Pre 1900 item# 790346 (stock# ALR2391)
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The Kura
tel.81-75-432-6980
1,600.00
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The girl, slender as a sapling, prepares her coiffure as a young man peeks into the room. A mid Qing Dynasty painting mounted as a Japanese hanging scroll likely depicting the star crossed lovers Liang Shan Bo and Zhu Ying Tai, known as the Butterfly Lovers, an 800 year old tale of young love similar to but pre-dating the Shakespearean Romeo and Juliet drama. Exquisitely depicted with pigment on silk bordered in Kinran green silk threaded with geometric patterns in couched gold, extended with p ...click for details
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