. Guide leaflet. A TravelingShrine This lacquered box isin reality a travelingshrine. The woodeninterior displays afigure of Amitabha,the Buddha of Enlightenment, beautifuUy carved andgilded A CrystalSnuft Bottle Among the almostmiraculous feats ofdexterity practicedby Chinese artists isthat of painting theinside surface of aglass or rock crystalsnuff bottle. Thisdelightful little painting was executed bypassing a very minutebrush through theneck of the bottle andreversing the strokes,somewhat in themanner of a lookingglass painting. 16 NATURAL HISTORY and groups illustrating folk lore and leg
. Guide leaflet. A TravelingShrine This lacquered box isin reality a travelingshrine. The woodeninterior displays afigure of Amitabha,the Buddha of Enlightenment, beautifuUy carved andgilded A CrystalSnuft Bottle Among the almostmiraculous feats ofdexterity practicedby Chinese artists isthat of painting theinside surface of aglass or rock crystalsnuff bottle. Thisdelightful little painting was executed bypassing a very minutebrush through theneck of the bottle andreversing the strokes,somewhat in themanner of a lookingglass painting. 16 NATURAL HISTORY and groups illustrating folk lore and legenddear to the hearts of Japanese boys andgirls. Among the ivory figures of appealingbeauty from the Drummond Collection, isthe Kwan Yin of the Fish in which thegoddesss is poised with great freedom ofaction upon the back of a huge carp. Thelegend that inspired this masterpiece relateshow a banished Japanese prince, who wasforced to earn his living by fishing, on oneoccasion found in his net no fish but insteada small image of the Goddess of Mercy. Thishe threw back into the sea only to find itagain when he next cast his net. So he keptthe image and with his own hands fashioneda shrine for it on a hill overlooking the sea,where the Goddess of the Fish was continu-ally worshiped. Another charming figurine to which a storyis attached, is Hsi Wang Mu, the ChineseQueen of the Fairies, whose legend, like manyother Taoist myths, was brought into Japanfrom China. It is said that the palace ofWang Mu is in the Kuen-lun Mountains,wher
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