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7 Compare a very similar bowl in the Longquan Celadon Museum,
A longquan celadon-glazed ‘Eight Immortals’ bowl Zhejiang, dated to the Ming Dynasty and illustrated in Longquan
15th century Celadon of China, Zhejiang, 1998, p.145. Two further examples
The heavily potted bowl moulded on the interior with the Eight of this type of pottery with incised figures, one telling the story of
Daoist Immortals standing around the well and variously holding the celebrated Warring States general Su Qin, are illustrated by
their attributes including a flute, a sword, a leafy fan, a crutch and J.Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London,
other objects all beneath a band of keyfret below the rim, the interior, 2001, nos.16:52 and 16:53, where the author notes that whereas
exterior and foot covered with a thick green celadon glaze. Hobson originally suggested in 1926 that bowls of this type were
18cm (7in) diam. made in Jiangsu or Anhui, more modern research by the Zhejiang
£12,000 - 15,000 Provincial Cultural Relics Office suggests that they were in fact made
HK$150,000 - 190,000 CNY120,000 - 150,000 at Longquan.
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