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Subject:large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Billy Tue, Jun 16, 2015 IP: 104.173.42.192
Need help identifying these 2 pieces. Large carved heavy wood boy and girl statues, hand painted and mirror jeweled.
Anybody know where these come from or what their purpose is ?

Thank You





Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Bill H Wed, Jun 17, 2015
These figurines are Thai handicrafts, made around the northern city of Chiang Mai during the late 20th century or subsequently. Decorative value only.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Billy Wed, Jun 17, 2015
Bill, can you show me an example ? I can't find anything like these.

Thanks, Billy

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Billy Thu, Jun 18, 2015
Bill, i kept searching for hours on what you said about handi crafts, i cannot find anything close to what I have.

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Bill H Thu, Jun 18, 2015
Seems to me like you've got two excellent examples in your possession. If you can't find others, it may have something to do with the Vietnam War having been over for nigh on 40 years now. No more GIs taking R&R in Bangkok and shipping these cute kid statues back to their spouses or significant others. Keep watching eBay. Another one will turn up one day I'm sure.
Bill H.

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Billy Fri, Jun 19, 2015
I didn't look at it this way, now it makes sense.
Thanks Bill.

Billy

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Bill H Sat, Jun 20, 2015
The other way to look at it is from the perspective of eBay sellers and auction houses being just as much in the dark as you are about the origins of these carvings. The closest any of the following auctioneers got to the Thai origins of their carved kids was "Southeast Asia" and "China" in the descriptions. All of these examples look to me to be in the same Thai style. I would suppose that the low auction prices aren't much of an incentive for anyone to copy these carvings nowadays.

Best regards,

Bill H.

Subject:Re: large carved wood boy and girl statues
Posted By: Bill H Sun, Jun 21, 2015
Hmmm, the links suffered a failure to launch for some reason, possibly my absentmindedness.

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/25872532_two-chinese-polychromed-wood-carvings

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/34001127_pair-southeast-asian-carved-timber-children

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/34174507_pair-of-asian-wood-sculptures

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/21052878_chinese-wood-carved-sleeping-girl

https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/9214419_chinese-14-wood-painted-sleeping-boy

Good luck,

Bill H.

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