A Chinese famille verte 'klapmuts' bowl
A Chinese famille verte 'klapmuts' bowl

KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A Chinese famille verte 'klapmuts' bowl
Kangxi (1662-1722)
Painted to the interior roundel with the goddess Hsi Wang Mu in a garden, a peach blossom in her hand, attended by a spotted deer, surrounded at the well and rim with butterflies and insects divided by cartouches of peach, some gilt rubbing
16.2 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

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.

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