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37*
A RARE LONGQUAN CELADON-GLAZED ‘EIGHT IMMORTALS’
BALUSTER VASE, MEIPING
Yuan Dynasty
The baluster body supported on a tapering foot rising to a high
shoulder and short flaring rim, moulded to the eight facets with
cartouches enclosing the Eight Immortals amidst billowing clouds, in
between further cartouches enclosing floral sprays, covered all under
an attractive glaze of olive-green tone, fitted box.
26cm (10 1/4in) high (2).

£15,000 - 20,000
CNY130,000 - 180,000

元 龍泉青釉印八仙紋八方梅瓶

Provenance: the Sze Yuan Tang collection, acquired in Hong Kong
circa 1980s-1990s

來源： 思源堂收藏，於約1980至1990年代購自香港

Compare a related Longquan celadon-glazed vase, meiping, Yuan
dynasty, of similar octagonal form and decoration but with unglazed
figural panels, in the Percival David collection, illustrated in Imperial
Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, San
Francisco, 1989, pp.48-49, no.23.

A related Longquan celadon-glazed octagonal vase, meiping, Yuan
dynasty, of similar form and decoration but with iron spots, was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3010.

The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence
test no.P103x58 dated 25 November 2003, is consistent with the
dating of this lot.

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