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Figure of Daoist Immortal He Xiangu
Figure of Daoist Immortal He Xiangu
黃楊木雕何仙姑泛舟
1700s
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China, Qing dynasty
(1644-1911)
Boxwood
Overall: 13.5 cm (5 5/16 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 1976.60.a
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The lingzhi she holds is a woody mushroom often used in traditional Chinese medicine and associated with immortality.
Description
He Xiangu is one of the Eight Immortals in the Daoist pantheon. She was thought to have been a real person who lived in the Tang dynasty, originally named He Qiong. As a teenager, she was instructed in a dream to eat powdered mica to become immune from death and to vow to remain unmarried. She did so and became an enlightened practitioner of Daoism.
In this delicate carving, He Xiangu is placidly seated in a gnarled and knotty wooden raft amid green-tinted ivory waves. In front of her rests a bamboo basket filled with objects associated with Daoist immortality, and she holds a branch of lingzhi fungus like an oar.
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