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Maklaiheung Gallery is an online gallery of Asian Art and Antiquities based in Canada with a primary

Maklaiheung Gallery is a gallery of Asian Art and Antiquities based in rural Ontario, Canada. Its stock, composed of thousands of items of ceramics, bronzes, sculptures and articles of adornment, has been assembled over a period of nearly sixty years, and acquisitions have been made in almost every country in Asia, as well as in North America and Europe. Our primary areas of expertise are in South

east Asian artefacts and in ancient beads and pendants from all parts of the continent, but you can’t understand the regional and specific without a knowledge of the whole, and so the collection also has holdings in areas as widely separated as antique pots from the village of Onta in Japan and indigenous Kiffa beads from Mauritania in West Africa. We have experiences in advising a large number of public museums and private collectors on their acquisition opportunities for many years, and we are now releasing a small part of our stock onto the market. This, we are sure, is how antiquities are best preserved and appreciated – by being passed from one person who loves them to another.

08/16/2026

A fine Khmer bronze figure of Prajnaparamita, Bayon period, late 12th century, 20 cm. Originally the name, which literally means ”Perfection of Wisdom“ was that of the most sacred early Mahayana sutras. It wasn‘t until much later - sometime between the 4th and 7th century - that they became embodied in the form of a female deity who was especially important in Cambodia during the reign of Jayavarman VII. She was sometimes referred to as The Mother of All Buddhas. Here she appears as a powerful and sensual woman with a lotus in one hand and the sacred book in her other, and with a small, seated Buddha in her coiffure. She is sometimes confused with Uma or with Avalokiteshvara, but there is no connection.

08/09/2026

Two Tang dynasty painted pottery figures of a dancer and an attendant. Both have been TL-tested. The dancer is 34 cm high. 💃🏻💃🏻

07/22/2026

A tiny gold figure of Buddha, about 4 millieters tall, from the Tircul (known in Chinese records as Pyu) culture in Burma. It dates from the middle of the first millennium CE, and is very rare. It came to us from a Thai collector who said it was found in Halin, the earliest of the Tircul/Pyu city states which grew rich and powerful as a result of being one of the major sources of salt production in Southeast Asia.

07/05/2026

🌼 A Geyao-type chrysanthemum dish, probably Ming dynasty period, from an old Japanese collection, with a small kintsugi repair to the rim🌼.

07/01/2026

Sun rising out of the mist above the rice fields, Isan, Northeastern Thailand🌾🌾🌾

06/17/2026

A very rare Sawankhalok bottle-shaped celadon vase with a long, tapered neck and an incised floral band round the shoulder. It dates from the 15th century, and probably was made to be placed on a Buddhist altar. It’s the only Thai glazed vase in this form that we have seen. The shape derives from South Asian models, but is linked more directly to the very similar red earthenware water containers with inlaid decorations that were made, perhaps a century earlier, at Wiang Tha Kan near Chiang Mai (they used to be mislabelled Haripunchai). Of course, it is also virtually the same shape as the many bottle-shaped glass vases that were produced in Qing dynasty China. Nothing is ever completely new!

06/07/2026

A lovely Phoenician stratified eye bead, 20 mm. diameter. From one of the many Hellenistic settlements around the coast of the Black Sea, it was made in the second half of the first millennium BCE. Beads of this kind were traded east along the silk roads to China, where they contributed to the great flowering of Chinese glass in the Warring States period.🔮

06/01/2026

Two jade beads from the Liangzhu culture (3rd Millennium BCE). The larger is 48 mm in length. They come from an old Singapore family collection assembled in the 1950s and ‘60s.

05/17/2026

🍃 A rare bronze figure of Buddha with a recently unfrozen Canadian lake behind him. His right hand is held in the gesture of teaching or discussion - vitarkamudra - which seems appropriate nowadays. Such figures are occasionally described by auction houses as Mon Dvaraviti, but this one comes from further south, Chaiya, an important Srivijayan city on the east coast of the Thai peninsula. It dates from the 7th to 9th century. In the twentieth century the radical Thai Buddhist monk, Phra Buddhadasa Bhikkhu, established a forest monastery inland from Chaiya where he preached his concepts of Dhamic Socialism; it is still a place for learning through meditation and reasoning.🌿

05/05/2026

💚An intriguing pre-Columbian jade “axe god” pendant from Costa Rica, second half of the first millennium CE. In just a few simple lines and with two lightly-drilled holes to represent the eyes, it seems to convey different, changing emotions - anxiety; threat - that give it a life of its own.💚

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