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A FAMILLE ROSE 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BALUSTER VASE
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Finely and colourfully enamelled in delicate pastel tones with each of the eight immortals depicted holding their attributes, some astride fierce-looking lions, including a gnarled staff suspending a scroll, surrounded by attendants bearing offerings including the peach of longevity, a flower basket, pomegranate, finger-citrus and incense, below cloud swirls enclosing a crane and bats in flight, base ground down; Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones by Edgar Gorer and J.F. Blacker, 2 vols.
the vase 13 in. (35 cm.) high (3)
yongzheng
Finely and colourfully enamelled in delicate pastel tones with each of the eight immortals depicted holding their attributes, some astride fierce-looking lions, including a gnarled staff suspending a scroll, surrounded by attendants bearing offerings including the peach of longevity, a flower basket, pomegranate, finger-citrus and incense, below cloud swirls enclosing a crane and bats in flight, base ground down; Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones by Edgar Gorer and J.F. Blacker, 2 vols.
the vase 13 in. (35 cm.) high (3)
Provenance
A.J. David
Literature
E. Gorer and J.F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hard Stones, London, 1911, vol.II, fig.211.
Sale room notice
The base is not ground down as catalogued.
There is a hairline crack to the body.
There is a hairline crack to the body.