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A VERY RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘IMMORTALS’ SLEEVE VASE The Eight Immortals, Zhang Liquan, Lu Dongbin, Li Tieguai, Cao
Chongzhen Guojiu, Zhang Guolao, Han Xiangzi, He Xiangu and Lan Caihe are
The tall cylindrical body expertly painted in vibrant tones of cobalt-blue Daoist mythical figures. Paintings often depict these figures celebrating
around the exterior with a continuous scene of the Eight Immortals a birthday or on their way to celebrate a birthday. There is a variety of
within a mountainous landscape, all beneath pendent plantain leaves different compositions of the same motif, such as the birthdays of the
at the neck. Queen Mother of the West or the God of Longevity. Many paintings
37cm (14.6in) high. originated from classical dramas and prints. Compare with a related
blue and white sleeve vase decorated with Immortals, dated 1641, in
£20,000 - 30,000 the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, illustrated by R.S.Kilburn, Transitional
CNY180,000 - 260,000 Wares and their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, p.35, fig.19.

Compare with a related blue and white sleeve vase, Chongzhen, which
明崇禎 青花八仙祝壽圖筒瓶 was sold at Bonhams London 6 November 2014, lot 227.

Provenance: a European private collection, acquired in 1975

來源：歐洲私人收藏，購於1975年

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