Page 512 - The art of the Chinese potter By Hobson

PLATE CXV

Wine jar of potiche form with low neck and wide mouth.

Porcelain with designs outlined in threads of clay in cloisonne

—style, and washed in with coloured glazes aubergine, yellow,
—dark violet, blue, and white in a turquoise ground. Green

glaze inside. On the body, Shou Lao (God of Longevity), is

seated on a rocky throne with a scroll in his left hand, an
incense burner and his familiar, a deer, beside him ; a tortoise
in front, and a stork flying above are other attendant emblems

of longevity. The Eight Immortals approach to pay him

court, Li T'ieh-kuai and Ho Hsien Ku, appearing in front.

Below is a band of false gadroons, and above ju-i shaped
lappets enclosing the Eight Buddhist Emblems (pa chi hsiang),
of which the knot, the wheel, and the conch shell are seen in
the picture. Propitious cloud-scrolls on the neck.

15th century. H. 13".
In the possession of Messrs. G., R. and C. Benson.