Face mask "Tudigong" or "Tudishen", 19th century · China · ID: 3048551
sold
EUR 900
Provenance
Jack Nelis, The Hague, The Netherlands (acquired in Beijing in the late 1990s)Size
H: 23 cm
H: 9.1 inch
Description
wood, paint, hair, base
“Tudigong” or “Tudishen” - the “God of the Soil and the Ground”, embodies in Chinese folk religion, Taoism, the protective deity of a locality and the human communities who inhabit it.
Comparing literature
Créhalet, Yves, Le Masque de la Chine, o.O. 2007, p. 94 ff.