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<p>[QUOTE="ValerieK, post: 4412006, member: 7360"]I agree he isn't exactly like Shouxing, but there are many similarities. The object he is holding is not a peach but I think it is a gourd (containing an elixir of life), as mentioned on a web page I found. It doesn't have any writing on, at the top it has a kind of rosette of grooves found on gourds like pumpkins - I'll attach a photo here. I know there are many differences - he hasn't got the high domed head, nor the long staff, in fact the stick he has wouldn't be much use to anyone, you would have to bend down to use it! There is no particular reason for the deity to be clambering on a rock. Maybe the artist was depicting his own grandfather as the deity, to have a bit of fun! But he is both aged and benevolent, and he will be my little talisman, even if he is just "old man on rock, holding gourd". And I'll be careful around anyone Chinese who might tell me off for calling him Shouxing![ATTACH=full]374839[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374840[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="ValerieK, post: 4412006, member: 7360"]I agree he isn't exactly like Shouxing, but there are many similarities. The object he is holding is not a peach but I think it is a gourd (containing an elixir of life), as mentioned on a web page I found. It doesn't have any writing on, at the top it has a kind of rosette of grooves found on gourds like pumpkins - I'll attach a photo here. I know there are many differences - he hasn't got the high domed head, nor the long staff, in fact the stick he has wouldn't be much use to anyone, you would have to bend down to use it! There is no particular reason for the deity to be clambering on a rock. Maybe the artist was depicting his own grandfather as the deity, to have a bit of fun! But he is both aged and benevolent, and he will be my little talisman, even if he is just "old man on rock, holding gourd". And I'll be careful around anyone Chinese who might tell me off for calling him Shouxing![ATTACH=full]374839[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]374840[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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