[ShadowPuppetry] Chinese shadow puppetry set
Attractive Chinese shadow puppetry set with 9 handcut and hand-painted figures, fully moveable and mounted on bamboo sticks. Incl. a tiger, a horse, multiple people and a few buildings. First half of 20th cent., height each ca. 40 cm. One figure beheaded, but head included. Set otherwise in good condition.
Added: Two books about shadow puppetry. (1) Chinese shadow puppet plays, Lui Jilin. (2). Der Zauber des Buntens Schattens, Gerd Kaminski and Else Unterrieder. -and a Vinyl record with a shadow puppetry opera. Les amours de Liang Chan-Po et Chou Ying-Taï.