finely potted with rounded sides rising to an everted rim, delicately painted in finely pencilled tones of iron-red with 'famille-verte' highlights, depicting a procession of the 'Eight Immortals', each with their associated attributes, together with Shoulao, the He He erxian and Xi Wang Mu, with five bats hovering above, the base inscribed with the six-character mark within a double-circle.
Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th October 1991, lot 225.
Note: A bowl of this pattern from the Oppenheim collection is illustrated in R.L. Hobson et al., Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, London, 1931, fig. 160; and a pair from the Treitel collection included in the exhibition Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 911, and now in the Gemeente Museum, The Hague, is illustrated in Beatrice Jansen, Chinese Ceramiek, Lochem, 1976, no. 313. Compare also a pair of bowls from the Charles Osweld Liddell and Frederick Knight collections sold in these rooms, 18th May 1982, lot 39, and another pair also sold in these rooms, 5th November 1996, lot 777..
Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. 08 Oct 08. Hong Kong