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Vase of double-gourd form. Porcelain with designs
outlined in threads of clay (cloisonne style), and washed in
—with coloured glazes aubergine, yellow, and white in a
turquoise ground. Green glaze inside the mouth. The main
designs are set in a mountain landscape with pine trees and
mists ; on the upper bulb are Shou Lao, God of Longevity,
with his deer, and Hsi Wang Mu, Queen Mother of the West
on the lower bulb are the Eight Taoist Immortals {pa hsieri).
At the waist are symbols bound with fillets and ju-i cloud-
scrolls (propitious clouds) ; and at the mouth and above the
base are borders of false gadroons. The base is unglazed.
About 1500. H. 1 8- 75".
In the possession of Mr. George Eumorfopoulos.
