清 景德鎮窯青花釉裏紅鍾馗驅鬼圖鼻煙壺|Snuff bottle with demon queller Zhong Kui
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early 19th century · Porcelain painted in underglaze copper red and cobalt blue, coral stopper · Asian Art
This fierce-looking figure is the legendary demon queller Zhong Kui. He is depicted in vibrant red paint on both sides of the bottle. A pale blue demon is painted on the object’s underside, which implies it was crushed under Zhong Kui’s feet.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- early 19th century
- Medium
- Porcelain painted in underglaze copper red and cobalt blue, coral stopper
- Culture
- China
- Department
- Asian Art
- Credit line
- Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913
