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Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 517

A SMALL AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DAOIST IMMORTALS' JAR, WANLI MARK AND PE RIOD
Estimate: 50,000 - 70,000 USD

A SMALL AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DAOIST IMMORTALS' JAR
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD
明萬曆 青花仙人祝壽圖小罐 《大明萬曆年製》款

the squat ovoid body boldly painted in inky blue tones of underglaze blue with a continuous scene depicting four of the Eight
Immortals, including Liu Hai and Li Tieguai, traversing a landscape interspersed with bamboo, prunus, lingzhi and pine, each
carrying their respective attribute dispensing swirling vapor supporting shou characters, the short mouth encircled by a double-
line border, repeated above the foot, the six-character reign mark arranged in a circle to the countersunk base

Diameter 4¾ in., 12.1 cm

Provenance
C.T. Loo, New York.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 25th May 1966, lot 170.

來源
盧芹齋，紐約
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1966年5月25日，編號170

Exhibition
The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, 18th September - 22nd October 1979.

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