Chinese Bone and Coral Set
This glamorous 4 piece set celebrates one of the Daoist 8 Immortals, He Xiangu, the patron deity of housewives. There are many differing stories of He-Xiangu and how she became an Immortal...
This glamorous 4 piece set celebrates one of the Daoist 8 Immortals, He Xiangu, the patron deity of housewives. There are many differing stories of He-Xiangu and how she became an Immortal...
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that she was attacked by a demon and rescued by Lü Yan (Lü Dòngbīn)
...or that Lü Dòngbīn fell in love with her and brought her to join the Immortals. Author Richard
Wilhelm was told; that she had sworn never to marry and one day when she was
cooking rice, Lü Dòngbīn came and released her and she joined the Immortals still
holding the ladle in her hand.
Clearly made for a prosperous housewife...the carved plaques are tea stained ivory or bone (difficult to tell), surrounded by coral and set in vermeil...filigree flowers and clouds...with coral good fortune symbols.
Clearly made for a prosperous housewife...the carved plaques are tea stained ivory or bone (difficult to tell), surrounded by coral and set in vermeil...filigree flowers and clouds...with coral good fortune symbols.
