A Rare Complete Set of Five Southern Chinese 'Monkey King' Polychrome Decorated Wood & Gesso Folk Art Puppet Heads sub-Curios (likely to eventually drop out)

(likely to eventually drop out) and some very light edge wear

and many skilled pilots

half pelvis

with the other two showing a good variant of caterpillars

only it wasn't official

A Rare Complete Set of Five Southern Chinese 'Monkey King' Polychrome Decorated Wood & Gesso Folk Art Puppet Heads sub-Curios (likely to eventually drop out)Origin: Chinese Period: Early Twentieth Century Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1900 20 Typical Size: Length: 12 inches, Width: 3. 5 inches, Depth: 4 inches Other measurements available on request Likely hailing from Quanzhou of Fujian Province, China, the gesseod and polychrome decorated wooden puppets each depicting a head from the Legend of the Monkey King; Sun Wu Kong (Monkey King), Tang San Zang (Monk of Tang), Zhu Ba Jie (Pig Demon), Sha Wu Jing