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清康熙 釉裡紅麻姑獻壽圖水盛
青花「大明宣德年製」楷書款
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 December 1995, lot 437
An important European private collection
來源:倫敦蘇富比,1995年12月5日,拍品編號437
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Magu is a figure in Chinese mythology often depicted as a beautiful young woman with feathered robes and with a deer. She is associated with longevity and immortality, and is said to possess magical powers, including the ability to brew an elixir of life from sacred herbs. It is unusual to find a piece painted with figures in copper-red, it is used more typically as an overall covering on small porcelain pieces; see, for example, the beehive brushpot in the Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.7. For an apple-shaped jar painted with a floral design in underglaze-red, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period, in the Shanghai Museum, see Wang Qingzheng ed., Underglaze Blue & Red, Shanghai, 1987, no.118.