General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . r/;^^:. WANG MU, THE CHINESE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES. This is a carved ivory figurefrom the Drummond Collection. Though pro-duced by a Japanese artist, it is founded upon aChinese myth. It is said that the palace of Wang\lu is in the Juen-lun .Mountains, where sheguards the Tree of Immortal Peaches that growsbeside the Lake of Gems, whose fruit ripens uponher birthday, every 3000 vears. Here gather tothe Feast of Peaches all the immortals to renewtheir immortality by eating the celestial fruit r. 164:1 k WAN YIN, GO
General guide to the exhibition halls of the American Museum of Natural History . r/;^^:. WANG MU, THE CHINESE QUEEN OF THE FAIRIES. This is a carved ivory figurefrom the Drummond Collection. Though pro-duced by a Japanese artist, it is founded upon aChinese myth. It is said that the palace of Wang\lu is in the Juen-lun .Mountains, where sheguards the Tree of Immortal Peaches that growsbeside the Lake of Gems, whose fruit ripens uponher birthday, every 3000 vears. Here gather tothe Feast of Peaches all the immortals to renewtheir immortality by eating the celestial fruit r. 164:1 k WAN YIN, GODDESS OF THE FISH. Acarved ivorv Japanese figure of great beaut)from the Drummond Collection. This ivorjstatuette is characteristically Japanese both irconception and rendering. It immortalizes irivory the story of the princely fisherman \vh<set up a shrine to this goddess after he hatrepeatedlv found her image in his net instea<of the fish he sought
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