Painted Votive Panel From Andhra Pradesh - 19th Century Material - Red Coral showing mastery over the past

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A door from India dating from the middle to early 18th century or earlier

He has been present in Asian art since 500 AD

These ginger jars are hand painted by skilled artists using traditional techniques learned from their families and passed down through generations

This Japanese kannon biraki tansu chest dates to the very end of the Edo period (1603-1868) - circa 1840 or 1850

Painted Votive Panel From Andhra Pradesh - 19th Century Material - Red Coral showing mastery over the pastThis evocative 19th century painted teak votive panel from Andhra Pradesh has the direct, sculptural presence of true folk devotional carving, likely once hung within a tribal village home as a quiet symbol of protection and personal faith. Hand carved in thick, stepped relief, it is centred with a pointed arched niche that reads as a domestic shrine form rather than an architectural quotation, framed by deeply receding borders and softened foliate