A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' YEN YEN VASE

A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' YEN YEN VASE

19TH CENTURY

Decorated with The Eight Immortals holding their attributes, each depicted riding an animal or a mythical beast, between geometric and floral borders encircling the rim, shoulder and foot, the unglazed base with a glazed recessed circle to the centre, 58.3cm.

Provenance: Joseph Gordon, Randolph Crescent, Edinburgh, d.1969, and thence by descent.