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Message:: [QUOTE="Potteryplease, post: 9607384, member: 16407"]Ok, I finally have an interesting update on this piece! The generous and helpful shop owner, from whom I purchased my recent Chinese porcelain pieces, looked at my pictures of these writings, read them, googled a few things, and then told me the following: -this is a Buddhist carved fertility totem (my words) that was made for a "Mrs. Wong" -it was made and blessed by a Buddhist monk / priest in the hope of having children, specifically a boy -it very specifically dated: November 15, 1864, from 3:00 - 5:00 a.m. -- that's when the monk assisting Mrs. Wong wrote the scripts -it says Hunan Province, and the reign of King / Emperor Tongzhi (Qing Dynasty, reigned from 1861-1875) -the monk would write the details, somehow bless the eyes of the carving, then place it in a sacred part of a larger Buddha statue -this carving is therefore blessed, and has a spirit, and I should treat it as such, perhaps playing it Buddhist music occasionally, in honor of its origin and the people involved -it is not a 'Buddha' figure but more so like a 'saint' in Western terms[/QUOTE]