A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE BALUSTER VASE, the body painted with the eight Immortals on a fenced terrace, each carrying their respective attributes and approaching the seated figure of Shoulao in a grotto beside a a censer, a deer and a crane, all below a further crane in flight and other Immortals amidst clouds carrying banners reading 'May our happiness be like the Eastern Sea' and 'May our long life be like the Southern Mountains', the foot with a band of upright stiff leaves above key-pattern, the tall neck with the 'three friends', pine, bamboo and prunus, below a foliate scroll at the flaring mouth (handles and part of neck restored), Wanli six-character mark in a line below the rim and of the period