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114 The current lot is part of a well-known group of Longquan green-
glazed vases in this form with distinctive facetted sides and moulded
A fine and rare Longquan celadon octagonal decoration.
‘eight immortals’ moulded baluster vase, meiping
Yuan Dynasty Comparable examples depicting the Eight Daoist Immortals include:
one in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, illustrated by Y. Mino &
The tapered body with high shoulders rising to a short flared neck, K. Tsiang, Ice and Green Clouds: Traditions of Chinese Celadon,
moulded in relief with eight Daoist Immortals, each within a shaped Indianapolis, 1986, pp.202-3, no.82; another in the Percival David
cartouche amidst scrolling clouds, between floral cartouches above Foundation, illustrated in Imperial Taste - Chinese Ceramics from the
and below, covered overall with an olive-green glaze, the unglazed Percival David Foundation, San Francisco, 1989, pp.48-49, no.23;
foot rim burnt orange in the firing. and another with a more elongated body in the Asian Art Museum
26.5cm high of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New
Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p.187, no.364. A similar
HK$700,000 - 1,000,000 meiping vase, but with iron spots, was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
US$90,000 - 130,000 30 November 2011, lot 3010.
元 龍泉釉印花八仙八角梅瓶 The result of Oxford Authentication Ltd. thermoluminescence test
no.P103x58 is consistent with the dating of this lot.
瓶口外撇，短勁，豐肩，肩下往內收窄，足向外撇。整體分為八角
式，以印花方式各面印有不同紋飾：肩部飾開光花卉紋，瓶身中部飾
開光八仙，各有姿態，表現出八仙過海的場景，低部飾開光花卉紋，
上下呼應。通體施青釉，晶瑩潔淨，釉及底部，圈足處露胎。
元代龍泉青瓷多以人物、花鳥、龍鳳及八仙為紋飾，表現於技巧
如露胎裝飾、釉花貼花、模印刻花等，變化多樣。同是以八仙為
飾，與本拍品相近的例子，可參考 Philadelphia Museum of Art的藏
品，見Y.Mino 及K.Tsiang著，《Ice and Green Cloud: Traditions of
Chinese Celadon 》，美國印地安納州首，1986年，頁202-203，
圖版82。另一件屬大衛德爵士基金所藏的例子，可參見於《Imperial
Taste – Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation》，舊
金山，1989年，頁48-49，圖版23。拍賣場上的例子，可參考香港佳
士得，2011年11月30日，拍品編號3010，該件與本拍品類同，唯瓶
身飾有鐵斑。
此拍品經牛津鑒定公司熱釋光年法測試（測試編號P103x58），證實
與本圖錄之定代符合。
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