If you have visited the website recently, you may have noticed some important changes that have been made in the way the prices are now displayed: you do not need to log in with your password anymore, all prices are shown immediately in the collections pages.

Moreover you can now purchase your selected items directly with PayPal without having to contact us anymore. However if you prefer to pay by transferring money to our account, you will need to send us a mail to get our banking details. Also for purchasing single or multiple large items you will still need to contact us, so that we can quote for a shipping cost to your destination.

Another detail has been added, and we hope this will not bother you too much. It’s a watermark on all our photos; it is relatively discreet and does not overwhelm their viewing, or so we hope. We had to do this after discovering that many of our photos were published on several Chinese (and maybe other) websites without our permission, and without a reference to us.

This month we have added several utilitarian items in wood and metal, such as brass pots and bronze lamps, also four carved panels. Two coconut scrapers, a coco-de-mer bowl and an afghan string instrument complete this selection.

Now if you like paintings, there is a small treat here for you: apart from three contemporary Balinese miniatures, we have added two ancient Tibetan thangkas, and a lot of other Tibetan paintings that are much less known, called tsakilis. They are painted divination cards, used in some Lamaist rituals. As many come from spare sets, we have had them gathered together in frames. Only four come unframed.

And to complete this selection four other frames have been added, this time with painted paper masks of Southern Chinese minority Taoist lore

Thank you for your continued interest in these collections.

François Villaret

Click on the pictures to see all new products for June 2010

Click on the pictures to see all new products for June 2010