Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Oriental Ceramic Art, Vol. 7: Collection of W. T. Walters
An ancient legend related by Huai Nan Tzu, who died B. C. 122, promulgates the romantic idea that the two arc separated all the year round except on the seventh night of the seventh moon, when Magpies fill up the Milky Way to enable the Spinning Damsel to cross over. A legion of poetical allusions have sprung from this passage picturing the separated lovers gazing at each other from afar or celebrating their joyful reunion.* Of the four medallions on the exterior of the bowls, two opposite ones contain separate pictures of the same cowherd and spinster; the other two are filled with outdoor scenes, in one of which the Spinning Damsel is seen walking under a tree with maiden attendants, in the other in amorous dalliance with her lover in a gar den pavilion.
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