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3A5b9a*mboo ‘Magu amidst rockwork’ brushpot, bitong Invoice

17th century
The bamboo of reddish yellow hue carved with an intricate scene of the lady
Immortal Magu carrying her basket of fruit on a staff over her left shoulder
as she travels a narrow path beside craggy rocks and beneath outstretched
branches of pine, all set amid rocks and cloud scrolls parting to reveal a
narrow waterfall.
13.4cm (5¼in) high
£4,000 - 6,000
HK$47,000 - 71,000 CNY38,000 - 56,000

十七世紀 竹雕麻姑圖筆筒

Provenance: acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London, on 2 September 1988
A European private collection
來源：1988年9月2日購於倫敦Spink & Son Ltd.
歐洲私人收藏

Magu is a legendary Daoist figure with ancient cultic origins, whose biography
appears in the Jin Dynasty text Biographies of the Divine Immortals (Shenxian
zhuan) by Ge Hong (283-343). Often depicted as a beautiful maiden with a
basket of flowers, she is a symbolic protector of females and is associated with
the elixir of life.

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