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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 506654, member: 2844&quot;]Welcome back Marco, and with such a gorgeous find!</p><p>Hope your medical issues are gone and you are feeling better. I am glad you are up and about and enjoying going to the hoover store, which as you now know is the perfect place to find these gorgeous little guys.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I think we need a new hoover...</p><p><br /></p><p>I think S Wolf could be right about them being Men Shen. If you can get them safely out of the box I would love to know what the backs look like. If there is any indication that they were fixed to a gate or door.</p><p>It is difficult to say anything about the age, with all that dirt. As you know, dirt on Chinese items isn&#039;t always a sign of age.</p><p>But whatever the age, they are beautifully made and so very attractive. A lot of craftsmanship and artistry went into making these, just imagine how many were made to get one perfect figurine. And I love the realistic faces of the first two, those expressions, wow.</p><p><br /></p><p>The rooftile idea, could be. I only know the Imperial roof decorations, used in Imperial times for official buildings and temples. But those are of a fixed type of figures in precise order. As far as I know they are mythical creatures headed by a man on a bird, the last one of the creatures is a dragon.</p><p>Here is some info on them:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_roof_decoration</a></p><p><br /></p><p>You can never post enough, S Wolf, your post before this one was wonderful.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie58" alt=":joyful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>About the roof decorations, in Dutch we call them &#039;dakruiters&#039; which means roof riders, to distinguish them from the usual roof tiles.</p><p>Many here are actual riders, like this replica of a 14th century one:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]165192[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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