Archival Note Card | Chinese Opera Masks - #4

Glossy red face under a jeweled crown and a beard like black ink.

This archival note card from the chinese opera masks series, no. 4, titled "dancing orbs". It is paper. Chinese opera uses painted face patterns, known as lianpu, in which color and design generally signal a character's temperament, role or moral standing. Tall-format card where the mask is deep scarlet with angled black brows and a firm mouth. A broad headdress of brown, gold and green jewels sits above, and a long glossy black-green beard descends with gold script at the lower right. It is 4.25 inches long and 5.5 high.

Red, regal, and completely unamused by it all.