THIS IS A PREMIUM LOT. A rare and massive Chinese famille rose Baxian or Immortals vase ...

THIS IS A PREMIUM LOT. A rare and massive Chinese famille rose Baxian or Immortals vase Jiaqing 1796-1820, painted with a continuous scene of the Eight Daoist Immortals, scholars and meiren in a landscape of rocky outcrops, pine trees and a river with a bridge, across which Li Tieguai walks with his crutch, carrying his double gourd vase on his back, in the distance mountain peaks are visible among the clouds, the neck finely painted with the eight Buddhist emblems on a lime green ground amongst continuous floral scrolls and between ruyi bands, a pair of moulded kui dragon handles beneath the slightly everted rim, the interior and base glazed in turquoise, unmarked, a rim section broken out and repaired, 69.5cm. Provenance: English private collection, purchased by the present owner in the 1970s. Cf. Sotheby's, London, 9th June 2004, lot 225 for a similar example from Invercauld Castle, Aberdeenshire. See also R L Hobson, Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Vol II, pl.132 for a Qianlong example in the collection of Lady Wantage.

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