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

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.