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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.

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.💚

04/25/2026

A fine Qing dynasty glass s***f bottle in the Yangzhou style. The bottle is made from a white jade-like translucent glass that is overlaid with a delicately-carved reddish-brown layer showing a hunter on horseback followed by his hound while a waterbird, possibly a goose, seems to look down at them from above.

04/08/2026

We‘re reorganizing our Southeast Asian collection; here are some of the Vietnamese ceramics (C12-16), along with three small bleu de Hué pieces (bottom left) made in Jingdezhen in the nineteenth century for the Annamese market.

04/07/2026

Close ups: Qing dynasty rock crystal Guanyin and Sun rising at the frozen lake.

04/05/2026

Guanyin with a selection of ancient rock crystal, jade and other hardstone. 🌅 🧊 🌠

03/15/2026

A Luristan so-called ‘Master of Animals’ bronze finial, early first millennium BCE, 17 cm. Located in a mountainous region in Western Iran, Lur society, though semi-nomadic, generated an amazingly rich bronze-making culture. These finials depict the complex animistic relationships between the human and natural worlds. The idea of ‘mastery’ is inappropriate, since they seem to be objects that simultaneously revere and find grotesque humour in the interaction. The reverse is identical to the front. It used to be in the collection of the famous American psychoanalyst Aaron Esman; it would have been fascinating to know what he made of it!

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