Wednesday, December 3, 2014

Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Porcelain Chinese Snuff Bottle

Porcelain with rounded shoulders painted in underglaze blue and copper red. Trefoil border on short flared neck.

Mark on base is the pig Zhu bajie, and the theme is Pan si dong (  盘丝洞 script on shoulder ) or Pan si cave, there are lots of spider witches living in the cave, and they all want to eat Tang Monk who is monkey king and the Pig's master, those ladies on the bottle are all the spider witches.

Spider witches are the spiders from the heaven, and they have spell magics to turn into human being and trick the Tang xuanzhang, the Tang monk traveled to the "Western Regions" during the Tang Dynasty to obtain sacred texts , during the Journal he had to face all kind of tests the buddha gave him, spider witch in silk cave or twist silk cave are on of them, so there are all kind of witches in that fairy tale.

Early to Middle 19th Century

3 1/8" tall

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