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Subject:Re: Not sure if Chinese or not Never seen anything like it
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Jan 02, 2017
Stylistically, the motif on your dish looks to be Japanese and to depict the "Tekkai Sennin" (鐵拐仙人), the latter term meaning "Iron Crutch Immortal", who is the Japanese version of the Daoist Immortal, Li Tieguai (李鐵拐). Here the deity appears to be creating a curative cloud of "Reishi" (靈芝 - Lingzhi in Chinese), the "Mushroom of Immortality", meant to relieve the ills of his following among the wretched of the world.
Here are links to other sources of information related to the motif. Perhaps one of the contributors on Japanese porcelains can verify my speculation that the dish may date at least to the late 19th-early 20th century.
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Genii-Gama-Sennin-and-Tekkai-Sennin-Second-Half-of-The16th-C-Posters_i13331506_.htm
http://www.scholten-japanese-art.com/rinpa_1.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Tieguai
Best regards,
Bill H.
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