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Vintage Ceramic Chinese Fertility Peanut Shaped Covered Bowl Dish W/Nuts Inside

$ 311.51

Availability: 14 in stock
  • Provenance: Ownership History Not Available
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: China
  • Condition: No chips or breaks/Chinese Ceramic Peanut Form Box & Cover with Two Peanuts Figural Peanut Shell Sculpture Box Marked Feng Shei Fertility Symbol for Newlyweds
  • Modified Item: No
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

    Description

    Vintage
    4.5 inches long
    no chips or breaks
    has 2 ceramic nuts inside
    Chinese Ceramic Peanut Form Box & Cover with Two Peanuts Figural Peanut Shell Sculpture Box Marked Feng Shei Fertility Symbol for Newlyweds
    he base molded with a three-character apocryphal Kangxi mark. It reads 康熙年, or "Kangxi reign" (until 1722), although we have been unable to determine the exact age.
    Used as gift to newlyweds, to symbolize good birth. The Chinese word 生 in 花生(peanuts) is homophonic with ‘birth."
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