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Dish
This dish is painted in underglaze blue with a shou (longevity) character in the centre, surrounded by five bats, five further shou characters, and five swastika symbols. The swastika was originally a Buddhist symbol but evolved to represent 'ten thousand'. Together the bat, shou character and swastika form the decorative theme 'ten thousand happiness and longevity'. On the base is the mark Lüxin…
Subject
- Food vessels & tableware; Ceramics; SCRAN
Type of item
- Dish
- Plate
Date
- 1851-1861
- 1851/1861
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Places
- Jingdezhen
Identifier
- O22854
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2016-01-12T14:27:44.162Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-04-26T14:18:21.257Z