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Lot 489
A Chinese famille verte 'klapmuts' bowl
KANGXI (1662-1722)
Closed14 December 2011
Price Realised
EUR 6,500
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Specialist note
For a similar dish, see D.S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, p. 283, ill. 341.
Hsi Wang Mu is the goddess of immortality and is also known as the 'Mother of the West'. She cultivates the peach of immortality in her garden, a fruit that takes three thousand years to ripen.
Hsi Wang Mu is the goddess of immortality and is also known as the 'Mother of the West'. She cultivates the peach of immortality in her garden, a fruit that takes three thousand years to ripen.