The 2nd Bronze Maidservent Idol of Jiangdu Temple

Ming Dynasty.
The two gods have the same body size, clothing and ornamentation. They are slim with calm face, combing with two coiled buns, wearing a wreath.Bronze. Inside the short dress is a lace long skirt, waist-tied nine ring belt and butterfly knot cloud pattern ribbon, outer collar round neck wide-sleeved robe, add Xia Pei(Part of Chinese ancient women's dress). Short clothes on the chest, back, robe elbow, sleeves are decorated with a group of cloud Phoenix pattern. The shoulders are decorated with a cloud-striped "Ruyi" pattern. Xia Pei is decorated with floral ribbon, cuffs for Lotus leaf shape. Small feet with boots. Hands on the abdomen. The object of its sitting is the same as the statue of the South blasphemy River, and the difference lies in its size and decorative pattern. This stool is larger Jiangxing, from the upper to the bottom of the grass leaf pattern, geometric pattern, double ma Yun pattern, wave pattern and geometric pattern. The left arm of the sister is engraved with an inscription: "The Statue of the Dormitory of Nandu Temple which need to be reconstructed because of its age .Monarch Shu's command Song jing(a man who is a official in eunuch institution called"Cheng Feng Zheng") to assemble the affairs ，and order Yi Xuan、Yong He (his bodyguards)to supervise it and wirte poems in intablet inscriptions. At the end,they begain to smelt new statues of a Nandu Yangtze River God、two goddesses 、four childs in nanming garden. The imperial power is consolidated and the border will never be destroyed. All of subjects tend to pray for the Gods . "As can be seen from the inscription, all three idols were made by the king of Shu for six years of Ming-cheng. (Bronze, with comb bun on head and belted treasure wreath on ears,wears long coat wide sleeve and small foot boots. It's hands are under the abdomen, which clothed with the grain of birds and clouds and belt decorated with Phoenix bird treasure pattern. Rectangular copper seat, decorated with cloud beast drum pattern. The back has an inscription, faintly can be identified as "6th year of Ming Cheng ,Shu Wang casting." ）