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Lot Essay
For a similar 'klapmuts' bowl sold with Christie's Amsterdam, see 13 and 14 December 2011, lot 489.
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.
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.