Vintage Chinese Empress Rosewood Carved MASK Alabaster Eyes Woman Queen Daoist

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Please note this beautiful carving has a substantial chip on the top top of her headpiece. Still stunning and well priced
This hand carved red wood mask of Daoist deities is dry wood hand-carved and made in China
Give your home a decadent look while appreciating the Daoist deities' heritage. made of redwood with
excellent details and alabaster eyes. The
female Wangmu Niangniang - Queen Mother of the West.
"Daoism, also spelled Taoism, indigenous religio-philosophical tradition that has shaped Chinese life for more than 2,000 years. In the broadest sense,
a Daoist attitude toward life can be seen in the accepting and yielding, the joyful and carefree sides of the Chinese character, an attitude that offsets
and complements the moral and duty-conscious, austere and purposeful character ascribed to Confucianism. Daoism is also characterized by a positive, active attitude
toward the occult and the metaphysical (theories on the nature of reality), whereas the agnostic,
pragmatic Confucian tradition considers these issues of only marginal importance, although the reality of such issues is, by most Confucians, not denied." Sourced From Britannica