Product Description

Antique Chinese Statues

Material: Wood
Style: China
Size: Height 16.5 cm, Width 5.5 cm, Depth 5 cm
Order Number: MHSACS1

These ancestral figurines are carved in a soft wood generally used for caring statues and figurines. Both male and female figures are seated and dressed in officials’ robes.

The formal postures and costumes are similar to that of ancestor portraits painted on silk and paper. The ancestral figurines function in the same way: capturing the likeness and spirit of the deceased.

Descendants paid respect to these figures and offered them joss sticks, flowers and fruit. They were placed on the domestic altar and venerated daily.

As early as the Han dynasty (206 BC–220 AD) sculptural images of one’s parents were already in existence.

70–80 years old.

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