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Tibetan Buddhist Art furniture & Antiques from the monasteries of the Ser Shong (Golden Valley)
 

Chösum Stand B013.04

BBB on line reliablility seal
left view 3 panels red trim with flowers front view drawer over two doors red trim with lotus flowers right view 3 panels red trim with flowers
left side front view right side

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B013.04 is one of the rare pieces to come out of the monastery that is not full of Tibetan Buddhist Icons. The stand is decorated with red and blue Lotus blossoms with hints of grape vines in the background. The top is painted red with no designs & shows a considerable accumulation of soot which has permeated the red paint.   The top section is a drawer with a classy round brass-pull, with the customary brass coin as the pull's escutcheon. There are two doors in the lower section that open from the center. The door-pull is the vertical divider between the doors & opens the right-hand door; the hinges are pegs in the top & bottom of the door that fit into a hole in the underside of the upper frame & a graduated slot in the lower part of the frame. The door-pull has been repaired. When the doors open, they reveal a shelf that divides the interior space.

Materials:  Asian cedar & spruce
Dimensions:  H 30.75" W=17" D=16.5" measurements are approximate.
Age circa 1850

Item #B013.04:  Price $1275.00, plus shipping & handling: West Coast $80, Mtn. States $86, Midwest $92, Atlantic coast $97  Canadian destinations, contact us for a quote. 

To Purchase this item, get questions answered  or would like additional photographs, contact David either by calling 1-800-718-4238 or by emailing david@baronet4tibet.com

Iconography

 The growth of the lotus, its roots in mud, growing through water, & emerging as a wonderful plant above the surface, is seen as an analogy of the soul’s path from the mud of materialism to the air of enlightenment.  Just as the lotus blossom rises above the mud & is beautiful, so must you raise your thinking with pure thoughts that are noble & praiseworthy; then, you also will be beautiful. The lotus in mid-blossom represents the present time; a bud represents the past, while the full-bloom represents the future.