We are proud to be celebrating our 45th year in business as Dealers in Fine Antiques and Art. Established in 1973 in Shreveport, LA as ET. CETERA, LTD., we operated a Shop offering Decorative Antiques, Fine Art, Estate Jewelry, Silver, Linens, English, French, German and Oriental Furniture, with special emphasis on Chinese Antiques, Japanese Antiques and Works of Art.
The following year we opened a second Shop, ROBERTA STEPHENS ANTIQUES, featuring Folk Art, Americana, and Louisiana Primitives. We continued to expand and focus more intently on Japanese Antiques and Chinese Antiques.
The following year we opened a second Shop, ROBERTA STEPHENS ANTIQUES, featuring Folk Art, Americana, and Louisiana Primitives. We continued to expand and focus more intently on Japanese Antiques and Chinese Antiques.
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Antique Japanese Lacquered Wood Zushi (Shrine), 19th c., the black lacquered shrine with two curved hinged doors opening to a gold lacquer interior draped at the top, containing a wood figure of a Tamonten (Bishamon) standing on a rocky ledge on a rectangular base; dressed in armor, a ferocious look on his face, holding a stupa or pagoda in his left hand, a halberd in the right.
The whole panel expertly hand-embroidered in lucious soft colors with a central Five-toed (lung) Dragon amidst stylized cloud scrolls and surmounted by a bat; the Dragon in gold couched metallic thread with a stem stitch outline to define and separate the dragon's scales to give them a relief effect; over a double wave design centered with a 'Lotus' (symbol of devine purity) and mountains; all skillfully embroidered in satin stitch, stem stitch, long and short stitch; a Phoenix bird at the top left and a Manchurain Crane at the top right, and two further Phoenix birds over the waves.
Impressive Old Print - Portrait of an Adoring Mother and Three Children - Old Master Painting-style - in a beautiful gilt frame with rounded corners. Unsigned, with what appears to be the initials M.C in the top left. Condition: One tiny scuffed place which shows in the photo of the child on the left; some slight wrinking on the neck and cheek.
Great VANITY FAIR Print by 'LIBERIO PROSPERI (LIB) - 1894.05.03 - The Earl of SEFTON - Owner of Croxteth Hall, Lord Lieutenant of Lancs, Born 1835, and educated Eton, joined Grenadier Guards, built the Grand Stand at Aintree, owns half Liverpool'. Coloured by chromo-lithography, an arduous Victorian method of printing using several limestone blocks.
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Odile Rose
Dec 04, 2016
