Shadow Puppet

NameShadow Puppet

Artist Artist unrecorded

Date19th/20th century

Place madeSzechwan, China, East Asia, Asia

MediumLeather, vellum?, paint, wood

Dimensions5 1/2 × 2 in. (13.97 × 5.08 cm)
2 3/4 × 2 in. (6.985 × 5.08 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, gift of Lloyd E. Cotsen and the Neutrogena Corporation, A.1995.93.1508

Object numberA.1995.93.1508

Collections

The Lloyd Cotsen & Neutrogena Collection

DescriptionShadow puppet of horse and "buggy"; originally one of one hundred-thirty pieces in a collection of Chinese shadow Theater figures and props in leather as follows: 16 set pieces, 1 man in clouds; 18 figures; 95 heads, 1 book by Nancy Berliner. Each small thin piece of intricately carved leather with pierce-work filigree and painted details, the collection comprising: eighteen figures, ninety-five single heads (some with attached feathers), a single figure of deity in clouds and sixteen set pieces. Colors are shades of brown, black,red.