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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 2478311, member: 8267&quot;]Both China and Japan have long traditions of creating polychrome wood sculpture, including preparation of the surface with various clays and gesso type mixtures. Conservation of a Chinese Guanyin from the Jin period in the Victoria and Albert Museum revealed &quot;many layers of clay, paint, paper and gesso on top of the wood&quot;.</p><p>(John Larson: Statue of the Bodhisattva Guanyin. in <u>The Art of the Conservator</u>,&nbsp; British Museum Press, 1992.) So such construction is not inconsistent with an Asian origin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But they do have sort of a fairground or advertising quality to them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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