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CLOISONNE ALTAR INCENSE POT (Item No. Incense Pot 01)
Origin: Tibet or China
Age: unkown, but probably mid to late 20th century
Height: 265mm (10 inches) approx
Price: £155 (including postage worldwide)
Large, beautiful cloisonne altar incense burner. Designed for Tibetan stick incense rather than loose 'smudge', the sticks are normally placed in sand or ash held within the pot.
The burner has arms which are fixed onto the pot by means of small screws, and three lion feet. The arms and one of the feet are slighlty loose, although there is no danger of them detatching and the function or look of the pot is not effected. The pot has a pierced lid through wihc the smoke flows. This is set with a snow lion on the top. There are slight pits and air bubbles here and there in the cloisonne, but generally it is good condition with no cracks or missing sections.
A delightful and very special sacred object for your altar or collection.
CLOISONNE DEER ALTAR DECORATION (Item No. Animal 01)
Origin: Tibet or China
Age: 180 - 100 years approx
Height: 415mm (16.5 inches) approx
Price: £125 (including postage worldwide)
Large, beautiful cloisonne deer. Originally it would have been fixed to a base with another deer mirroring it and a 'dharma wheel' or 'wheel of the four directions' between them. As such it would have been part of a large Buddhist altar, represnenting the Buddha's teaching in the deer park.
It is a beautiful and rare piece, in fairly good condition although it has sufferend a few knocks during it's life and some of the cloisonne has suffered. The slight amount of damage does detract from it's beauty. It has two copper antlers which fit into holes on it's head and these can be removed. it does not stand up very well, being originally fixed to a base - but can be stood agaisnt a wall to support it, or a nail can be driven into a wooden board which can then act as a base for it, the nail passing up one of the legs and thus preventing the deer from falling over.
It is a beautiful ritual cloisonne sculpture full of grace and would be suitable for anyone who works with deer energy to grace their home or altar with. A one of item - you will almost probably nevernever see another.
Tibetan dharma wheel and deer
LARGE PUPPET OF GANAPATI (Item No. Fetish Figure 01)
Origin: Tibet or Northern Nepal
Age: 55 - 25 years approx
Height: 1010mm (39.5 inches) approx
Price: £135 (including postage worldwide)
Delightful, large, well made, four-armed wood and cloth puppet of Ganapati (Tib: tShogs bdag) the Tibetan form of the popular Indian god Ganesh. The painted face of the puppet is complete with a human skull crown and the puppet is dressed in hand woven Tibetan cotton cloth.
The puppet is in good useable condition, although it will probably need it's strings sorting out and untangling.
WOODEN SHAMANIC SPIRIT GUARDIAN FETISH (Item No. Fetish Figure 01)
Origin: Tibet or Mongolia
Age: 600 - 400 years approx
Height: 217mm (8.5 inches) approx
Price: £95 (including postage worldwide)
Extreamly rare, ancient carved wooden fetish, possibly in the form of a naga. The fetish is in beautiful condition, although is obviously time-worn. The wood is hard and in good condition and it has a very special quality with a nice patina.
A delightful and very special sacred object for your altar or collection. Items like this only come up rarely.
CLOISONNE ALTAR INCENSE POT (Item No. Incense Pot 02)
Origin: Tibet or China
Age: 120 - 70 years approx
Height: 127mm (5 inches) approx
Diameter: 108mm (4.25 inches) approx
Price: £110 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD
Beautiful cloisonne altar incense burner. Designed for Tibetan stick incense rather than loose 'smudge', the sticks are normally placed in sand or ash held within the pot.
A delightful and very special sacred object for your altar or collection.
SIBERIAN SHAMANS'S JAW HARP (Item No. jaw harp 01)
Origin: Altai Mountains - Southern Siberia
Age: 15 - 3 years approx
Height: 63mm (2.5 inches) approx
Price: £28 (including postage worldwide)
Modern, but traditional Siberian jaw harp. These instruments are used by shamans for meditation, healing and to contact their spirits.A delightful and very special sacred object for your altar or collection. Items like this only come up rarely.
This jaw harp belonged to Nicholas, but his shamanic teacher gave him another and so this one is redundent and he would like to pass it on to a good home.
Good condition with a nice sound.
JAW HARP (Item No. jaw harp 02)
Origin: Nepal
Age: 15 - 3 years approx
Height: 83mm (3.25 inches) approx
Price: £22 (including postage worldwide)
Modern, but traditional jaw harp. These instruments are used by shamans for meditation, healing and to contact their spirits.
Good condition with a nice sound, but not quite as easy to play as the altai jaw harp above.
LARGE WOODEN SHAMANIC WRATHFUL SPIRIT DANCE MASK (Item No. Mask 01)
Origin: Nepal
Age: 70 - 15 years approx
Height: 312mm (12.25 inches) approx
Width: 258mm (10 inches) approx
Price: £85 (including postage worldwide)
Nice, original carved wooden dance mask of a wrathful spirit, probably the protector being Mahakala. It is from the Middle Hills area of Nepal. The people of the Middle Hills have a mix of Shamanism and Buddhism, and the mask has both these elements in its design.
The mask is carved from a light, hard wood and is in good condition with no cracks or weak areas.
COPPER TIBETAN NOMADIC WOMEN'S MAKEUP BOX (Item No. Misc 01)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 150 - 40 years approx
Height: 80mm (3.25 inches) approx
Diameter: 135mm (5.25 inches) approx
Price: £90 (including postage worldwide)
Beautifully made, handmade, embossed round copper box, that was probably originally a nomad's makeup box.
The hinged box has a handle and opens up to show an embosed flat copper plate, underneath which is a number of pots and small dishes which originally would have held the makeup. None of the internal pots now contains any makeup.
The charming and rare set is in good condition, could be used to store your own itmes or displayed.
BRASS BUTTER LAMP (Item No. Bowl 01)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 80 - 15 years approx
Diameter: 53mm (2.1 inches) approx
Height: 53mm (2.1 inches) approx
Price: £22 (including postage worldwide)
Beautiful, used, altar butter lamp. Lamps like this (called dippers) are used on Buddhist and shamanic altars all across Nepal, Tibet and Mongolia. They either have butter and a wick put in them or a night or tee light candle. This is a nice old lamp which has been well used on an altar during its life and is large enough for a nightlight if you wish to put on in.
A delightful sacred object for your personal altar, in good condition.
SILVER OFFERING BOWL OR BUTTER LAMP (Item No. Bowl 02)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 70 - 15 years approx
Diameter: 68mm (2.7 inches) approx
Height: 28mm (1.2 inches) approx
Price: £28 (including postage worldwide)
Heavy silver or silver alloy offering cup. Bowls like this are used as butter lamps or for water or other offerings across the Himalayas and Mongolia.
The bowl is in good condition and would be suitable for use on an altar.
COPPER OFFERING BOWL OR BUTTER LAMP (Item No. Bowl 03)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 30 - 15 years approx
Diameter: 67mm (2.6 inches) approx
Height: 50mm (2 inches) approx
Price: £19 (including postage worldwide)
Embossed and decorated, pretty copper offering cup for use on an altar. The bowl is in good condition and would be suitable for use as a water offering bowl or a small butter lamp on an altar.
TIBETAN SILVER VAJRA DAKA (DORJE KHANDRO) CEREMONIAL BURNING OR INCENSE POT
(Item No. Daka 01)
Origin: Tibet
Age: New
Height: 150mm (6 inches) approx
Price: £65 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD
Vajra Daka is a Tibetan male earth spirit (a Daka is a male verson of a female Dakini). He is invoked in puricatory fire ceremonies to burn personal negative karma offered to him in the form of sesame seeds feed to him through his mouth which fall down onto burning charcoal in the base. The pot can also be used for incense burning and the smoke comes out through his mouth.
Vajra Daka is a wrathful being, sitting cross legged holding a bell and dorje. He wears a crown of human skulls, and is naked except for human bone beads and a tiger skin.
This is a new statue of a very old design. I have an old bronze one in my persoanl collection and could not resist this when I had a chance to buy it. The casting is accurate and fairly crisp, although air holes that are present in the base of mine are missing in this one so incense may not burn quite so well.
To see incense smoke rising from the mouth of mine is a delight which I have shared with many people over the years.
A beautiful incense pot for your altar or a decorative item of intrest.
SILVER SKULL AND TURQUOISE TOBACCO CASE (Item No. Case 01)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 150 - 50 years approx
Length of sliver outer case: 95mm (3.75 inches) approx
Price: £45 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD
Traditional tobacco case made of pure silver and leather. The case contains an inner case which can be pulled out and into which the tobacco (or other precious things) is placed.
The outside of the case is in very good condition with it's embossed silver face set with a nice natural turquoise stone, but the inner container is more fragile and would need to be repaired if it was to be used. The item would make a beautiful decorative object tied to a drum or other object which is what I originally bought it for but in the end didn't use it for.
SILVER OR NICKEL SILVER INCENSE CASE (Item No. Case 02)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 150 - 50 years approx
Length: 360mm (14 inches) approx
Diameter: 55mm (2.25inches) approx
Price: £58 (including postage worldwide)
Non-ferric pierced and embossed ritual incense tube. It would probably have belonged to a monastery and would have contained incense sticks for ritual use. The decoration is made up of floral swirling patterns with four female dakini figures, two on each side.
It is very well crafted, and the condition of the tube is very good although it is quite dirty. The two halves are held together by a chain which allows the top part to come off so you can get at the incense inside.
IT would be quite suitable for use for your own incense sticks or other ritual object as you see fit. New, much smaller incense contai
TIBETAN BUDDHIST NYINGMAPA LAMA'S HAT (Item No. Hat 01)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 70 - 30 years approx
Width: 247mm (9.75 inches) approx
Height: 205mm (8 inches) approx
Price: £20 (including postage worldwide)
A very cute red brocade hat from the red-headed Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism, the oldest and most shamanic school of Buddhism in Tibet, founded by Padmasambhava. The hat is used, but in good condition and although only large enough for a child to wear it would make a beautiful object of interest for display.
LAMA'S OR SHAMAN'S TANTRIC FIVE TAGATHATA CROWN (Item No. Hat 02)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 80 - 50 years approx
Height of each panel: 180mm (7 inches) approx
Width of each panel: 100mm (4 inches) approx
Price: £35 (including postage worldwide)
Crowns like this are worn by Shamans and lamas during tantric ceremonies. The crown is made of silver painted thick cardboard panels, each one further decorated with hand paintings of each of the five Diyanni Buddhas. These make up the five families of Buddhas, and also represent the five elements and the four directions and the centre point of creation.
With red cloth framework and ties. It is in good condition and would make a beautiful sacred object to be worn during appropriate ceremonies or could be a display object. The photo on the right is the more colour accurate of the two.
TIBETAN TINDER POUCH AND FLINT (ME-CHA) (Item No. Misc 02)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 70 - 25 years approx
Width: 120mm (4.75 inches) approx
Height (not including fastening ring): 57mm (2.25 inches) approx
Price: £38 (including postage worldwide)
A traditional tinder pouch with flint and steel for lighting fires, both domestic and ritual. The steel is fixed to a small leather bag which opens to provide a storage space for the flint. The pouch is decorated with a sown-on silver deer set on a patterned background and a central large real or good faux red coral.
From the top of the pouch is a ring, to which a short leather strap is attached so the pouch can be suspended from a belt.
It is a charming object in good condition, and would be usable for your own fire lighting if you wished or would make a nice display object.
WOODEN SACRED TIKA POWDER POT (Item No. Misc 03)
Origin: Nepal
Age: 50 - 20 years approx
Diameter: 60mm (2.25 inches) approx
Height : 115mm (4.5 inches) approx
Price: £22 (including postage worldwide)
A traditional small wooden pot for storing the sacred red tika powder which is used as an offering at sacred sites, made into a red paint by mixing it with water and smeared on statues at shrines, and thrown at people during the Hindu Holi festival.
The pot is about half full of original powder which has evidently has become damp during its life and set solid, although it could easily be ground up again if required.
The pot is in good condition, with no cracks or areas of weakness.
