Photographer: Claudius Kamps | Rights management: Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 InternationalTwo conical, interlocking hollow figures, painted with a large-eyed face, one red, the other purple. The principle comes from Chinese nesting boxes (套盒, pinyin: tàohé), where a series of boxes of graduated sizes each fit into the next larger box, similar to the principle of Russian matryoshka dolls: A wooden figure split down the centre from top to bottom, revealing a smaller figure of the same kind inside, which in turn has another figure inside, and so on.
Cataloguing data
Diameter: 4,2 cm
Height: 7 cm
Diameter: 5,5 cm