Pagoda of the White Robe Monastery (Baiyisi Ta) 白衣寺塔

This is a model of the White Dress Pagoda (Baiyisi ta 白衣寺塔) in Lanzhou, Gansu, which measures 23.7 metres. The pagoda was built in the Ming dynasty in 1631 A.D. and is constructed from bricks and stucco. The model is one of a set of 84 carved after famous originals scattered throughout China, for the Chinese exhibition at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco, one of the first to represent the newly formed Republic of China. Scaled down at a ratio of 1:50, they were made by the Tushanwan 土山湾Workshop, a Christian orphanage in Shanghai that trained its residents in vocational art and crafts. The woodcarving workshop, supervised by the Bavarian-born Jesuit Aloysius Beck (1854-1931), employed both local and Western styles and techniques to produce figures of traditional Chinese gods alongside those of Catholic saints.

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