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Period: 20th Century
Place of Origin: East Asian
Japanese Tall Antique Five Elements Stone Pagoda 180 Inches- best in class
Located in South Burlington, VT
Just discovered from an old Kyoto garden. Call us For Details... For the finest garden- a spiritual representation of five earthly and celestial elements. Japan, a monumental antique stone pagoda tower that is nearly five meters , about 180” tall, hand carved from solid granite, Taisho period circa 1920s, and a spiritual representation of five earthly and celestial elements. This pagoda rivals a similar example given by Sapporo, Japan to the Portland, Oregon Japanese garden (See Portland's Japanese Garden Pagoda...
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Early 20th Century Taisho East Asian Architectural Elements

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Granite

Antique Chinese Carved Wood Architectural Window Panel
Located in Dallas, TX
An antique Chinese carved wood window panel with piercing and a geometric pattern. This very decorative architectural element is a good size and can be used to hand on the wall or i...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

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Wood

Chinese Decorative Carved Wooden Architectural Pediment from a Temple
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Chinese decorative carved wooden architectural pediment, most likely from a temple, its crest featuring a gilt carved center star flanked by pierce carved birds, flowers, scro...
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Pair Art Deco Carved Wood Fragments Magnolia Motif
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of wood fragments carved in high relief with overlapping leaves of magnolia and mimosa, fronting blossoms of magnolia and reeded fractions of columns. Hand carved, solid wood,...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco East Asian Architectural Elements

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Wood

Japanese Rare Large Antique Bronze Temple "Futuku" Bell Complete Original Chime
Located in South Burlington, VT
Rare large Japanese bronze temple "Futaku" bell with original and complete hanging bronze cloud clapper , from Kyoto Temple. One of only two we have seen This bell is a rare treasu...
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Early 20th Century Meiji East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Antique Chinese Emerald Green Glazed Architectural Tile, circa 1900 Set of 2
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Chinese emerald Green Glazed Breezeway Tile, circa 1900 Set of 2. Early 20th century Chinese jade, emerald green ceramic garden tiles - S...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Architectural Elements

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Ceramic

Chinese Late Qing Dynasty Red Lacquered Shop Sign with Carved Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese late Qing Dynasty period red lacquered shop sign with hand carved calligraphy and black and yellow frame. Showcasing a rich history, this late Qing Dynasty period Chinese s...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Vintage Chinese Shop Sign with Gilt Calligraphy on Lacquered Ground
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Chinese horizontal shop sign from the mid 20th century with lacquered finish, carved and gilt calligraphy. Created in China during the midcentury period, this horizontal shop sign features an outer molded frame surrounding a beautiful calligraphic text. Six words, carefully carved and gilded, stand out on a dark reddish brown lacquered ground. The sign has been fitted with two ring pulls on its upper edge to allow it to be hung on a wall. With its clean lines and gilded calligraphy, this vintage Chinese shop sign...
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Mid-20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Large Bronze Door Knockers Guardian 10.5"
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of beautiful bronze guardian motif knockers. The mythical guardian has large bulging eyes above wide open mouth. Strong, curly eye brows under a prominent forehead. Heavy round cheeks further indicate his robust power. Antiqued finish with mellow gold patina. Fantastic as door knockers or hand towel rings...
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Chinese Monumental Mill Wheel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hewn from pine and held together with iron hardware, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it was u...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

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Iron

Chinese Monumental Mill Wheel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hewn from pine and held together with handmade iron nails, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Iron

Chinese Monumental Mill Wheel, circa 1900
Located in Chicago, IL
Hewn from pine and held together with handmade iron nails, this provincial wooden wheel is a remarkable example of turn-of-the-century craftsmanship. Its monumental scale suggests it...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Iron

Large Asian Round Chinoiserie Solid Brass Decorative Cabinet Hardware
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Large round solid brass decorative cabinet or door hardware. Created from a shiny golden brass, this lucky chinoiserie architectural element wil...
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20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Brass

Bronze Door Knockers Lion Motif 9"
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of beautiful bronze lion knockers. The mythical lion has large bulging eyes above wide open mouth. Curly hair surround the face, repeated in the eye brows which flank the prominent forehead. Antiqued finish with mellow gold patina. Fantastic as door knockers or hand towel rings...
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Late 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Vintage Rustic Architectural Elm Wood Decorative Wheel
Located in Brea, CA
Vintage rustic architectural elm wood wheel can be used as it is, or as a base for an arrangement of succulents or orchids. Measures: 11.5" W x 11.5" D x 11" H.
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Elm

Chinese Qing Style Relief Carved Window Panel
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Exquisite Chinese Qing style window panel featuring an intricately carved relief depicting scholars amid pagodas. The carved elm has a beautiful aged patina and fading on the natural...
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20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Elm

Japanese Antique Wooden Mortar 1860s-1900s/Plant Cover Wabi-sabi object Mingei
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a very old Japanese large wooden mortar. It is from the Meiji period (1860s-1900s). The material is zelkova. It is a powerful object carved from a large zelkova tree. It has...
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Early 20th Century Meiji East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Chinese Early 20th Century Brown and Red Two-Panel Screen with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A Chinese two-panel screen from the early 20th century, with carvings, gilt motifs and calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this screen features ...
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Early 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Vintage Asian Drop Ceiling Panels Hand Painted Embossed, Set of 18
Located in Topeka, KS
Gorgeous set of 18 vintage Asian drop ceiling panels. They are 2 x 2 ft. lauan wood squares, ¼ inch thick. 16 yellow with dragon design and 2 white with dragon and symbol design, hand painted and gilded, in beautiful condition with wear as you would expect with vintage pieces. All panels have varying degrees of wear including nicks, dings, scratches, and chips – we call it patina – they are by no means perfect but are beautiful. Please see photos, Circa, 20th century. Don’t ever let anyone turn your sky into a ceiling…-live life happy…. UNLESS it’s covered in oriental bliss with these awesome vintage Asian drop ceiling panels!!! There are eighteen of these lauan wood drop ceiling squares. Sixteen have a yellowish frame or background and two are off-white. They are all hand painted and gilded, possibly from a pattern or mold, and embossed with bright colors of gold, red, green, and yellow with designs of dragons, oriental symbols, and flowers…they are breathtaking!! And, oh my goodness, the possibilities!!!! Obviously, they would be perfect for a drop ceiling in an oriental restaurant or nail salon...
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20th Century Chinoiserie East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Pair of Bronze Door Knockers Warrior Motif 8.25"
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of beautiful bronze warrior motif knockers. The mythical warrior has large bulging eyes above wide open mouth. Curly hair surrounding the face, repeated in the eye brows which flanks the prominent forehead. Heavy cheekbones echoes the forehead, highlighting his masculine feature. Antiqued finish with mellow gold patina. Fantastic as door knockers or hand towel rings...
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Late 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Antique Asian Carved Foo Dog Lion Architectural Corbels, a Pair
Located in Forney, TX
A magnificent pair of Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) antique Chinese architectural elements with beautifully aged patina. circa 1900 Most impressive large scale, likely sculptural corbels from a Buddhist temple or imperial palace, late 19th / early 20th century, each intricately hand carved with very fine detailing, similarly styled pair, modeled as guardian foo lion, depicted with outstretched arched body, mouth ajar, clutching floral ball, having elaborate openwork carvings, with scattered remnants of original polychrome paint remaining. The highly decorative architectural salvaged ornamental building elements presented on custom made hand carved wooden sculpture stands...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood, Paint

China Three Antique Fantastic Stone Garden Monks
Located in South Burlington, VT
Instant display and collection, one of a kind. From western China and collected some 20 years ago, comes this group of three (3) large hand carved red sandstone Lohans or Monks da...
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Early 20th Century Qing East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Sandstone

Pair of Chinese Geometric Lattice Window Panels
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Near pair of wood Chinese window panels or grates featuring a geometric lattice design. Mortise and tenon joinery with parcel painted finish and C...
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20th Century Chinese Export East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Pair of Chinese 1920s Red and Black Lacquered Signs with Hand Carved Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A pair of Chinese red and black signs from the early 20th century with hand carved and lacquered calligraphy. Created in China during the first quarter of the 20th century, each of this pair of vertical signs captures our attention with its carved calligraphy, lacquered in black and standing out beautifully on a red ground, sprinkled with golden touches. With their nice dimensions and contrasting colors, this pair of Chinese calligraphy signs...
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Early 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Asian Well's Wooden Water Bucket
Located in Greenwich, CT
Asian well's water wooden water bucket with handle surrounded with cast iron brackets. We carry fine quality furniture with elegant finished and ha...
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1920s Ming Vintage East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Chinese Six-Panel Art Nouveau Floor Screen/ Room Divider, Shanghai, circa 1900
Located in Kastrup, DK
Chinese six-panel Art Nouveau room divider or screen. Wood with original green lacquer. Each panel has 6 square colored glass panels and is a...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Antique East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Stained Glass, Wood

Funky Antique Suzani Bronze Stool or Side Table
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Exceptional stool artistically made of hand embroidery vintage silk embroidery Suzani textile top, professionally mounted on antique bronze antique Chinese rain...
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Fragment of a Chinese Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
The sign is of Burmese origin, made from teakwood and covered in lacquer and gold leaf. The two legible characters are “Jade” and “Art”. As many carved signs were shop signs, this may have been a jade dealer’s sign...
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Gold Leaf

Large Chinese Early 20th Century Hand Carved Shop Sign with Calligraphy
Located in Yonkers, NY
A large Chinese hand carved shop sign from the early 20th century, with calligraphy. Created in China during the early years of the 20th century, this shop sign features Chinese char...
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Early 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Japanese Carved Wood Ramna, "architectural transom" circa 1910
Located in Camden, ME
Japanese ramna crafted of carved sugi wood surrounded by a black lacquered frame. The ranma depicts a crane soaring above stylized pines and clouds. The ramna would have original...
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Early 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Lacquer, Wood

Chinese Sign
Located in Chicago, IL
This impressive sign was once hung above the entrance to a Chinese ancestral hall. It is made from planks of Elmwood covered in layers of thick black tree lacquer for protection from...
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20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood, Lacquer

Japan Important 1961 Over Life-Size Bronze Man Child "Coming Generation", Tadao
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan an important life-size plus 94 Inch high sculpture of a man with child by Mid-Century Modern master sculptor Koga Tadao, (Meiji 36 (1903) to Showa 54 ...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Pair of Bronze Door Knockers Warrior Motif 7"
Located in Somis, CA
A pair of beautiful bronze warrior motif knockers. The mythical warrior has large bulging eyes above wide open mouth. Curly hair surrounding the face, repeated in the eye brows which flanks the prominent forehead. Heavy cheekbones echoes the forehead, highlighting his masculine feature. Antiqued finish with mellow gold patina. Fantastic as door knockers or hand towel rings...
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Late 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Architectural Carved Temple Elements Frog and Koi Sculpture
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Ancient hand carved polychrome frog and koi temple elements. As found showing original weathered age. Each element pierced on a steel rod raising above solid wood base. Frog stands...
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Early 20th Century Tibetan East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Wood

Carved Stone Foo Dogs
Located in Stamford, CT
A pair of Asian carved stone Foo dogs.
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Early 20th Century East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Stone

Japanese Old Bronze Casting Hanging Lantern /Traditional Lighting/"type B"
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a bronze cast lantern made in the middle of the Showa period in Japan. You can see that it is very finely decorated. It has a semicircular geometric pattern, which is an ausp...
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Mid-20th Century Showa East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

Japanese Old Bronze Casting Hanging Lantern /Traditional Lighting/"type A"
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a bronze cast lantern made in the middle of the Showa period in Japan. You can see that it is very finely decorated. The dragon pattern and the geometric pattern of a semicir...
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Mid-20th Century Showa East Asian Architectural Elements

Materials

Bronze

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