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[RAS 043.004] Votive door god with bowl


[RAS 043.004] Votive door god holding up a bowl containing a scroll (for happiness) and other auspicious objects.

42 x 27 cm

From a collection of 10 Chinese woodblock prints of door gods (men shen) from the Yangtze Valley and South China, donated to the RAS by Brian Houghton Hodgson on 4 November 1826.