Pair Buddhist Chinese Bronze Candlesticks
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An extraordinary pair of cast metal candleholders featuring intricate raised relief decoration and removable spear-form pricket inserts designed to secure taper candles. Each rests ...
Bronze
Bronze Champlevé Buddhist Temple Altar Candle Holder Meiji Period
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
A bronze Champlevé Buddhist temple Altar candleholder, Meiji period, with stylized elephant head handles and Ram's heads decoration. The enamel work has some loss and there is a stre...
Bronze, Enamel
Pair of Large Japanese Carved Wood Temple Candleholders Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
The pair is carved in the typical form with a block base in the shape of stylized chrysanthemums and long fluted stem with changes in diameter that supports a grooved holder fitted w...
Gold Leaf
Two Japanese Antique Buddhist Home Shrine Candle Holders
Located in So. Egremont, MA
Made of bronze, a near pair of Japanese candleholders each
different in details but similar in size and proportion make them even more interesting than an exact pair.
Bronze
Pair of Japanese Buddhist Temple Giltwood Candle Holders (Shokudai)
Located in Fukuoka, JP
This elegant pair of Japanese Buddhist temple candle holders (shokudai) is crafted from carved wood with gilt decoration and fitted with brass hardware.
Belgian Black Marble, Gold Leaf
Sold
H 19.89 in W 4.34 in D 4.34 in
Pair of Gilded Japanese Shokudai Candle Holders – Edo to Meiji Period, 19th C
Located in Fukuoka, JP
A fine pair of traditional Shokudai candle holders used in Buddhist temples, dating to the late Edo to early Meiji period (19th century).
Belgian Black Marble, Gold Leaf
Pair of Large Japanese Carved Wood Temple Candleholders Edo Period
Located in Atlanta, GA
These types of oversized candle holders were traditionally used in Buddhist temples or Samurai's resident where they were placed on the altar table for worshiping.
Gold Leaf, Brass
19th Century Candleholders from a Buddhist Temple
Located in Aspen, CO
Pair of 19th century candleholders from a Buddhist temple, tall in scale.
Bronze
$1,350 / set
H 24 in Dm 7 in
Pair Of Japanese Wood Shokudai with Chrysanthemum Base And Brass Prickets
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Pair of Japanese wood Shokudai with chrysanthemum shaped base, brass prickets and gold leaf Shokudai or candlesticks are prevalent in homes and temples during the Meiji period and w...
Brass
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