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Subject:Does anyone know what this jolly Chinese gentleman represents?
Posted By: JayC Mon, Aug 11, 2014 IP: 24.178.232.241
Hello:

I received this, (I think its resin), smiling figure from a woman who had spent time in China working as a missionary. She thought the round gentleman represented some kind of fertility figure but wasn't too certain. Does anyone know what his name is? I would really like to know the translation of the inscription on the medallion. Is he really a fertility figure? Any help would be appreciated.







Subject:Re: Does anyone know what this jolly Chinese gentleman represents?
Posted By: rat Tue, Aug 12, 2014
not fertility, this is a recently made boy dressed in late Qing style (eg with a hair queue); the medallion contains an amalgam of four characters used as a sort of amulet hoping for the arrival of wealth/talent/good things.

Subject:Re: Does anyone know what this jolly Chinese gentleman represents?
Posted By: JayC Wed, Aug 20, 2014
Sorry it has taken me sooo long to respond but Thank You!

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Subject:Re: Does anyone know what this jolly Chinese gentleman represents? FOLLOW-UP
Posted By: JayC Fri, Aug 22, 2014
Turns out the piece is a little older than I thought and it isn't hard resin but Bakelite; placing the piece somewhere around the turn of the 20th century or the end of the Qing dynasty. Just thought a follow-up was in order.

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