A FINE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWL

BLUE AND WHITE AND RELATED WARES

Details

A FINE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOWL
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted on the exterior with the Eight Daoist Immortals with their characteristic attributes, Li Tieguai with a gourd, Zhongli Quan with a peach sailing on a mythical creature, He Xiangu with a fly whisk sailing on a willow bough, Lu Dongbin with a fierce-looking demon behind him, Zhang Guolao sailing on his characteristic musical instrument, yugu, Cao Guojiu with castanets, Han Xiangzi with a flute sailing on a crab and Lan Caihe with a flower basket on a fish, all on a wave ground painted in underglaze red above a key-fret band encircling the foot, the interior with a central roundel of Shoulao accompanied by a deer below clouds and on a similar wave ground
8 3/4 in. (22.4 cm.) diam., box

Literature

The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. IV, 1995, pl. 86.

Sale room notice

Please note there is a small glaze flake to the rim not mentioned in the catalogue description.

Lot Essay

A bowl of the same pattern but with Kangxi mark is illustrated by Sato, Chinese Ceramics, fig. 303. Another with a Daoguang mark is illustrated by Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasure, Chinese Porcelain from the 19th and 20th Century, no. 72, p. 59.

(US$13,000-20,000)

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