File talk:XiWangMu-Dresden.JPG
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Subject is incorrectly identified.[edit]
This is not a depiction of Xi Wangmu but rather Magu, another Chinese Immortal. Magu is easily identified as she is always accompanied by a young spotted deer, and usually carries a basket or has a young attendant carrying her basket of peaches and other symbols of immortality (such as the lingzhi mushroom she is holding here). "Magu and her fawn" is a very common motif and a frequently used porcelain design. See samples in the Metropolitan Museum (NYC) and elsewhere. Reference: Patricia Bjaaland Welch, Chinese Art: A Guide to Motifs and Visual Imagery (Tuttle: 2007), p. 206.
