Ceramic
China
Qing, 19th cent.
HEIGHT 9 CM
Post Auction: Verkauft/Sold
This motif presents rural idylls which the ox consistently appears in, but is primarily a reference to the famous Chan-Buddhist allegory in ten pictures. The sixth picture shows the return of the ox on which the young shepherd is sitting. It symbolizes the different levels of enlighted wisdom-
From a Viennese collection