Gilt Wood Buddhist Altar Lotus Flowers Japanese

Single decorative vintage Japanese Kutani porcelain ShiShi Temple Lion Foo Dog Statue. Expertly crafted and painted. Both stamped and labeled in the underside. The Shishi, or lion-...

Pair of Italian water gilt carved wood candlesticks converted to lamps with later custom wood bases in a coordinating painted finish. Brass hardware fittings.

Intricately handcarved and gilt in 24K gold leaf Japanese temple lotus flowers in a brutalist green glazed ceramic vase / pot. Ceramic vase is not Japanese and not signed. Lotus flo...

An exceptional and wood statue of Buddhism Guardian Seitaka Doji from Japan circa Edo period (1603-1868), likely the earlier part of 17th century. One of two chief attendants of Fudou Myouou (the other being Kongara Doji), the name of Seitaka Doji is a transliteration of Sanskrit "Cetaka", meaning servant, slave, and he is said to personify expedient action. He is most commonly found on the right side of Fudou, together with Kongara Doji on the left, forming the Immovable triad, Fudou Sanzon, the terror of evil doers. Seitaka largely adheres to the iconography of a wrathful youth with fleshy body and face, skin in the color of a red lotus, has his hair tied in five knots, and holds a vajra in his left hand and a vajra-club in his right hand, but the actual artistic representations of him in Japan do...