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A polychrome painted wood tiger plaque
19th/20th centuryComprised of the raised-relief elements of a tiger head with stiff metal whiskers biting a sword in its mouth and an octagonal trigram emblem, all affixed by modern screws to a thin red-painted wood board of rectangular shape 16 1/4in (41.2cm) tall
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The present lot could possibly have decorated the outside of, or otherwise been related to, a sansin gak (mountain spirit hall), a small building often found in Korean Buddhist temple complexes. Painted depictions of this originally shamanist deity are identified by the tiger accompanying him; see Robert Moes, Auspicious Spirits: Korean Folk Paintings and Related Objects, Washington DC, International Exhibitions Foundation, 1983, for several earlier prototypes that inform the various elements of this lot. These include a seventeenth-century painted depiction of a sanshin with his tiger (cat. no.23, p.72) and an eighteenth or nineteenth-century wooden tiger (cat. no.74, p.151); for a similar wooden haetae, a tiger-like mythical feline, see cat. no.69, p.149.