EARLY 20TH CENTURY

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A FAMILLE ROSE DISH
EARLY 20TH CENTURY
The dish has shallow rounded sides and is decorated to the centre with a garden scene depicting the legendary Zhong Kui with the 'Five Poisonous Creatures', wudu, including a scorpion, toad, snake, spider and winged centipide, above a boy grasping a lingzhi plant. The exterior is decorated with three different flower blooms borne on colourful leafy foliate scrolls. There is a Daoguang iron-red six-character mark to the base.
9¾ in. (25 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

The Chinese legendary figure of Zhong kui, well known not only as vanquisher of ghosts and demons, but is also as vanquisher of the 'Five Poisonous Creatures' whose poisons he used to distill the Elixir of Life. The image of the five poisonous animals were thus connected with health and longevity and worshipped by those who seek protection, particularly for an only son.

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