Ancestral Shrine

Pair of early 20th century Chinese hand painted black lacquered ancestral shrines. Each shrine features three sets of double doors, a carved antique gilt panel and a cloisonné center...

Small Antique Chinese Red Elm Ancestral Shrine This hand carved and crafted antique Chinese shrine is used to place fruits and flowers offerings, usually used at the home.

Large Antique Chinese Red Hand Painted Elm Ancestral Shrine / Altar Made from durable elm wood, this altar features intricate hand-painted designs in vibrant red hues.

It may have been used in the reception hall of a private mansion or in an ancestral shrine. Its distinctive feature is its extreme simplicity -it is fashioned from one plank of Elmwo...

Crafted of northern elmwood in China's Shanxi province, this early 19th-century altar table was once used to display an ancestral shrine in a provincial Confucian household.

Statues of these three Gods are still found on the facades of folk religion's temples, and Asian altars, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Tibetan ancestral shrines. The statues bring good ...

In many Indonesian cultural traditions, items of personal protection, hunting regalia, and status were also buried with their owners or dedicated to ancestral shrines. While direct w...

A fantastic wood and gilt decorated hand carved Chinese ancestral temple shrine Emperor figure with a tiger.

A fantastic wood and gilt decorated hand carved Chinese ancestral temple shrine Emperor figure riding a mythical beast - perhaps a tiger.

The coconut shell has developed a deep, matte tribal patina, suggesting extensive ritual use, likely as part of a ceremonial costume, ancestral offering, or suspended shrine object. ...

The traditional wide-mouthed form of the pieces suggests that originally they were intended to be used either as censers, or incense burners, or as a ritual offering vessels for dedi...