A PAIR OF CHINESE PARCEL-GILT, COPPER AND PEWTER 'IMMORTALS' VASES AND COVERS

A PAIR OF CHINESE PARCEL-GILT, COPPER AND PEWTER 'IMMORTALS' VASES AND COVERS
LATE QING DYNASTY

The square-section bodies each decorated with birds and flowers and scenes of the Eight Immortals and attendants, including Liu Hai and his three-legged toad and two female Immortals in a raft below eleven others raised on clouds, the covers similarly decorated with birds and flowers and with shaped rims and wooden knops, the bases with four-character marks reading Yi He Shun ji, 51cm. (4)

Provenance: from the collection of Dr John William Hawksley Grice OBE (1891–1976) and thence by descent. Formerly on loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Grice loan number 82.

For another parcel-gilt pewter vase and cover depicting Immortals, see Sotheby's London, 8th November 2023, lot 352.

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來源：John William Hawksley Grice 醫生(1891–1976)收藏，之後由家人繼承。本拍品曾於倫敦維多利亞及阿爾伯特博物館展出，編號82。