KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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AN IRON-RED DECORATED 'IMMORTALS' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bowl is finely painted around the exterior in shades of iron-red with fourteen Immortals and two deer 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 holding a root-wood staff, lingzhi scepter, bowl of fruits, fly-whisk and two holding an open scroll with yin yang symbol, the details of their faces, hair and clothes picked out in black enamel, the interior with white glaze.
6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

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; and another was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 79.

Another Kangxi-marked bowl similarly decorated in iron red with fourteen Immortals was offered at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2550.

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