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A LARGE CHINESE WUCAI ‘BAXIAN’ BALUSTER VASE AND COVER
SHUNZHI 1644-61
Decorated with the Eight Immortals in a rocky wooded landscape, they watch a figure
dressed in a colourful robe performing a magic trick, his breath transforming into a
dragon and phoenix, with further figures in conversation to the side, the scene divided
by swirling clouds and set beneath a band of cracked-ice, with sprays of chrysanthemum
and peony to the short neck, the cover painted with three boys at play, together with a
wood stand, 49.5cm. (3)
£10,000-15,000
Provenance: from a British private collection, purchased from Sotheby’s Amsterdam on
18th May 2004, lot 131. A copy of the invoice is available.
Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.61.200.62 for a Kangxi period yen yen
vase decorated with a similar scene; see also Christie’s New York, 21st September 2004,
lot 271 for a Transitional baluster vase of the same scale painted with the Eight Immortals
and similarly decorated with boys to the cover.
清順治 五彩八仙龍鳳紋將軍罐
來源：英國私人收藏，阿姆斯特丹蘇富比2004年5月18日·編號131（附發票複
印件）。

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