Stringed puppet depicting a male figure, possibly an opera character, with a black beard and a red face. The puppet wears a green robe decorated with a tiger's head, identified by the character 'wang' meaning 'king', and other symbols, 'shou' meaning 'long life', with metallic thread embroidery forming geometric patterns overall. Wooden feet, hands and head covered in plaster, decorated with polychrome pigment. Various strings attached to a wooden suspension bar.
Part of The Louise Tythacott Collection . The Louise Tythacott Collection was compiled as the result of intensive fieldwork over several years in South China and Hong Kong. Ms Tythacott is a Chinese-speaking anthropologist and a museum curator, and was Curator of Ethnography at Liverpool Museum, who was particularly fortunate in developing contacts during the course of her work. Ms Tythacott has also made collections for the Museum of Mankind.
