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Lama's Offering Cabinets

Who used these storage cabinets?

Furniture in Tibet according to all historical accounts only existed in monasteries and lamaseries. The secular home, regardless of the financial assets or the religious following had no furniture per se. Tibetan furniture is then actually Tibetan Buddhist furniture. In my research I can find no records of furniture in Tibetan homes, quite the contrary, William Rockhill's accounts of his travels in Tibet in 1888 notes that there is a complete absense of furniture in even the most affluent homes. What we consider throw rugs or hall runners were the beds, chairs, and sofas of the Tibetan. Monks had some small altars or tables, the larger pieces were exclusively made for lama's and the best pieces were made for visiting high lama's residences. Monasteries typically have a residential compound reserved for a visiting high lama and/or many times one reserved for the Dalai Lama. Over the years these Lama's cabinets were passed down or sold to another lama or monk. It is the usual custom for the possessions of a monk or lama to be sold upon his death and the proceeds dispersed as directed by the deceased person prior to his death.

18th century cabinet in room setting

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Tibetan buddhist offering cabinet hand-painted with buddhist symbolism


Release from Samsara-increase positive Karma
AGE: circa 1860     
Dimensions:   Height=39" W=33" D=17"
 Price $2179.00

AGE: 1870-1890      
 Dimensions:
Height 30.62" W=29.25" D=15.75" 
Price $2,195.00
SOLD SHIPPed TO HOBE SOUND, FL

 
tibetan hand painted offering cabinet with ausp;icious conch shell horn and dharma wheel 8 fold path to enlightenment


Materials:  Juniperr and spruce
Dimensions:  H 31.75" W=29.62" D=15.88"
Age circa 1935
Price $1245.00
PENDING AVAILABILITY CHECK BACK LATER
 
Tibetan Buddhist furniture with lotus lute Ashoka flower and Cintamani Chakravartin's precious jewel
Age: circa 1950
Material: Juniper and pine    
Dimensions: H=32" W=40.75" D=15.75"
Price $1295.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO MIDLOTHIAN, VA
Tibetan Lama's Offering Cabinet C020-32
Tibetan hand-painted furniture buddhist Laqma offering shrine
AGE: 1940-50   
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar  
Dimensions:   Height=32"  W=41" D=16"
Price $1295.00
Tibetan Antique Furniture hand painted with Buddhist symbols featuring healing properties

"Healing the Soul and thus the Body"
AGE: 1870-90 
Material: predominately Asian Cedar AKA juniper   
 Dimensions: H 32" W=30" D=16"
Price $1385.00
Tibetan Furniture Buddhist Lama offering cabinet
Age: 1940-1950   
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar    
Dimensions: H=32" W=41" D=15.75
SOLD SHIPPING TO HOBE SOUND, FL
Tibetan Buddhist hand-painted altar furniture

Last available water-offering cabinet
AGE: circa 1900      
 Dimensions:
Height to top of gallery 30.75"
W=31.62" D=14.25" 
Price $2175.00

Tibetan Furniture Buddhist offering cabinet
~Eternity's Delight~
AGE: 1935-40     
Dimensions:   Height=31.5"  W=40" D=15.75" 
Price $1495.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO NEW YORK, NY
Tibetan buddhist altar offering cabinet handj painted furniture with auspicious lotus symbol and 4 noble truths

Materials:  Asian cedar & spruce
Dimensions:  H 32" W=30" D=16"
Age circa: 1925
Price $1089.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO MIDLOTHIAN, VA
Tibetan furniture hand painted

Age: circa 1820   
Material: Predominately Juniper    
Dimensions: H=39" W=32.75" D=17"
made for a special good man
with emotional and physical healing properties
Price $2185.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO SOUTH RIDING, VA

Tantric Tibetan Buddhist offering cabinet with butterfly shou
Tantric prowess~healing
Age: circa 1840-1860    
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar    
Dimensions: H= 40 "  W= 33 "  D= 15 5/8 "
Price $1775.00
Tibetan High Lama's Shrine and Offering Altar ~ B015
Tibetan Buddhist High Lama's shrine hand painted
Age: circa 15th century  
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar    
Dimensions: Height=39.25"  W=47.62" D=15" 
Price $2975.00
 
Tibetan furniture offering cabinet hand painted with 6-syllable mantra

Age: 1840-60       
Material:  juniper with some elm
Dimensions: H=39"  W= 33 "  D= 17 " 
"OM MANI PADME HUM "
Price $1375.00
2 door cabinet with yellow backgrond lotus flowers liknk to detail
Age: 1840-1860   
Material: Predominately Asian Cedar    
Dimensions: H=39" W=41" D=17"
Price $1960.00
large Tibetan Lama's storage cabint with flaming Cintamani on from doors

Age: 1875-1885    
Material:  Asian Cedar 
Dimensions: H= 42"  W= 44"  D= 20"
Painted by a 19th century master artist
Price $4275.00
SOLD SHIPPING TO SPENCER, NY

Tibetan hand painted furniture Buddhist yak butter lamp stand with gold dharma wheel

Age: circa 1860  
painted on sides and front    
Material:  Juniper, spruce & gum  
H 30.75" W=17" D=16.5"
Price $1,595.00
Tibetan antique furniture yak butter lamp stand with lotus blossoms

Materials:  Juniper & spruce
Dimensions:  H 30.75" W=17" D=16.5".
Age circa 1850
Price $975.00
Tibetan Buddhist Furniture painted with deities

Age: 1890-1910    
Material:  Asian Cedar 
Dimensions: H= 44.5"  W= 48"  
Depth of the top tier = 12.75"  
Depth of the bottom tier = 17.5" 
Height of the bottom tier = 29".
Price $5,695.00

Antique Tibetan Furniture hand painted offering cabinet with snowlions

"Snow Lions~Enlightened Wisdom "
Age: ca. 1800  
Dimensions: H=29" W=36.25" D=14.5"
Price $2785.00
SOLD SHIPPED TO MIDLOTHIAN VA

green cabinet with dragons on top door and longevity symbol on bottom doors
Age: Circa 1620-30    
Dimensions (overall)    H=27.5" W=29.5" D=12.5"
Price $5,900.00
High Lama's Storage Cabinet B018.01
 
high lamas storage cabinet with dragons on front
  
Age: 1740-1760 
Material: Asian Cedar   
Dimensions: H=31" W=41" D=15
Price $6,700 SOLD AT AUCTION San Francisco
   

 

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