A BLUE AND WHITE AND PUCE-ENAMELLED 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWL

FROM THE JINGGUANTANG COLLECTION

Details

A BLUE AND WHITE AND PUCE-ENAMELLED 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWL
ENCIRCLED XUANTONG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted on the exterior with the Eight Daoist Immortals and their attributes, on a puce-enamelled wave ground above a key-fret band encircling the foot, within double-line borders, the interior with a central roundel of Shoulao accompanied by a deer below clouds and on a similar wave ground
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, pl. 188.

Lot Essay

A similar bowl of the same size, decoration and reign mark is illustrated by Liu Liang-yu in Ch'ing Official and Popular Wares, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 5, p. 251.

See also a Guangxu bowl illustrated by Avitable, From the Dragon's Treasure, p. 59, col. pl. 72. A Tongzhi bowl of the same size was sold in these Rooms, 20 March 1990, lot 715.

(US$4,000-5,000)

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