A FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED VASE YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG Finely painted and detailed with a Daoist scene depicting Xi Wangmu seated on a rocky promontory beneath the crossed feather fans held by two young maidens framed within a rocky grotto, with seven further maidens holding offerings of various 'auspicious' objects, including a large peach, standing in attendance to one side below an immortal carrying a stolen peach branch hiding amidst the rocks while two groups of figures stand below, one group comprising the Eight Daoist Immortals borne atop the waves of a sea, while Liuhai standing atop his three-legged toad is borne towards the scene on a vaporous, blue cloud, the other group comprising five sages holding scrolls, all amidst rocks executed in a painterly style in grisaille , and with Shoulao seated on a crane in flight above the entire scene 25½in. (64.8cm.) high, wood stand
A FINE AND LARGE FAMILLE ROSE PEAR-SHAPED VASE YONGZHENG/EARLY QIANLONG Finely painted and detailed with a Daoist scene depicting Xi Wangmu seated on a rocky promontory beneath the crossed feather fans held by two young maidens framed within a rocky grotto, with seven further maidens holding offerings of various 'auspicious' objects, including a large peach, standing in attendance to one side below an immortal carrying a stolen peach branch hiding amidst the rocks while two groups of figures stand below, one group comprising the Eight Daoist Immortals borne atop the waves of a sea, while Liuhai standing atop his three-legged toad is borne towards the scene on a vaporous, blue cloud, the other group comprising five sages holding scrolls, all amidst rocks executed in a painterly style in grisaille , and with Shoulao seated on a crane in flight above the entire scene 25½in. (64.8cm.) high, wood stand
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