Charger

China

16th century

  • Titles Charger (Descriptive)
  • Artist China
  • Medium porcelain
  • Credit Line Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Lamar M. C. Smith, 1977.229
  • Object Name charger
  • Classification Containers

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Tall slender figure of a male with a high headdress and a small figure of seated Buddha in center of headdress, hands held in a delicate pose (probably once holding a lotus stalk), hips slightly akimbo. Figure wears a skirt with a knotted belt in front. Eyes are picked out in silver.
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Water dropper in the shape of a caparisoned lion with carved lotus petal base.
Bowl with molded hexagonal design representing tortoiseshell. Daoist trigrams and Buddhist swastikas in the hexagons, molded tortoise in the well, four spur marks in well.