W70xD50xH150mm, Macau
This dragon and tiger rider was an ancestral saint that was kept at the alter of the junk boat for keeping the fisherman’s journey safe. The multiple faces offer a supernatural power for this ancestral saint which is an usual expression for these figurines. Or would the fisherman had been to Bangkok on one of their fishing spree and got their inspiration from the famous Erawan Shrine?
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