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A blue and enamelled ‘Eight
Immortals’ double-gourd wall vase
Wanli
The lower body painted in a soft underglaze blue
with the Eight Daoist Immortals with their attributes
including Li Tieguai in the centre with his crutch
and holding aloft a double-gourd issuing the
wisp of immortality, the waist with blue classic
scroll reserved on a red enamelled ground, the
upper section with a figure of Shoulao with face
surrounded by an iron-red enamelled halo and
holding a ruyi sceptre seated on a flying crane
amidst pine trees, the neck with a ruyi-head
against a fretwork ground.
31cm (12¼in) high
£30,000 - 35,000
HK$370,000 - 440,000
CNY290,000 - 340,000
明萬曆 五彩八仙人物圖壁瓶
Provenance: L.Wannieck, Paris (label)
來源：巴黎L.Wannieck（標籤）
Compare with a similar wall vase in the shape of
a gourd with Wanli mark in the Palace Museum
collections, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome
and Contrasting Colours: The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong,
1999, p33, pl 30.

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