A FINE AND VERY RARE IRON-RED AND BLACK ENAMEL DECORATED 'IMMORTALS' BOWL

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A FINE AND VERY RARE IRON-RED AND BLACK ENAMEL DECORATED 'IMMORTALS' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely painted around the exterior of the bowl in shades of iron-red with fourteen Immortals and a deer in iron-red highlighted with black enamel, one figure conjuring a black and white crane from a double gourd, also including Shoulao standing holding a staff and Dongfang Shuo holding a peach branch over his shoulder, the Immortals variously holding a root-wood staff, lingzhi scepter, bowl of fruits, fly-whisk and two holding an open scroll painted with a yin yang symbol, the details of their faces, hair and clothes picked out in black enamel, the interior glazed white
6 5/8 in. (17 cm.) diam., box

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A Japanese private collection

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A similar Immortal bowl with fourteen figures, one being an attendant, all between underglaze-blue double-lines, from the Qing court collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 118; while another was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 79.