RESTORING - Chinese LION (Foo Dog) 1931 Poster Fix

This vintage original poster is from 1931 and came to my studio for restoration. Dry and ripped, it shows the Chinese Guardian Lion*. Watch us go thru the process of Linen backing and restoration! In business for over 40 years, Posterfix offers archival poster conservation, with customers world-wide.

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*Chinese guardian lions, or imperial guardian lions, are a traditional Chinese architectural ornament. Typically made of stone, they are also known as stone lions or shishi (石獅; shíshī). They are known in colloquial English as lion dogs or foo dogs / fu dogs. The concept, which originated and became popular in Chinese Buddhism, features a pair of Asiatic lions—often one male with a ball which represents the material elements and one female with a cub which represents the element of spirit— that were thought to protect the building from harmful spiritual influences and harmful people that might be a threat. Used in imperial Chinese palaces and tombs, the lions subsequently spread to other parts of Asia including Japan (see komainu), Korea, Mongolia, the Philippines, Tibet, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Singapore, and Malaysia.

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