Blanc de chine porcelain figure of Magu lamp base A well-modeled blanc de chine figure of Female beauty MaGu , with harmonious proportions and elegant lines. Its yellowish and bubbly clear glaze is typical of 19th century Dehua white wares. This beauty is accompanied with a deer. Good antique condition. 17.5 inches tall without wooden base. Literature: 麻 姑 Magu characters appear, as early as the Wei, Jin and Southern and Northern Dynasties period Taoist books recorded in her related deeds. Eastern Jin period by the Ge Hong literature works " fairy Biography " in about Magu was a good hard-working people and beautiful South, due to the accumulation of a lot of merit, but after enlightenment become immortal life woman, whose appearance was like Shiba Jiu Xian Xu's girl, slender fingers such as chicken feet, is a symbol of longevity. "Fairy Biography" Volume III, said: "Since the reception has been seen in the East China Sea three mulberry. To the Penglai, the water is also slightly more than to those who will be slightly more than half. brother Wang Fangping (god Wang Yuan) for time to talk, said that in the world experienced three "gloomy" and that now also Penglai water shallower than half old, I am afraid the future will again become the land. This is the "sea" of the story of the origin, so the ancient often known as Ma old lady longevity exists. Ma Gu 's ability was not surprising, but "smell the odd record" called "Healthy Road, surgery, can clog the water line", that is, Ma can wear clogs walking on the water. There is the cast can be cast into Dan sand cast to rescue the suffering of the people of Lebanon and disaster.

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