DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 6 ⅜ inches

 

PROVENANCE

Geoffrey Waters, Ltd., London, 2002

 

LITERATURE

Richard Kilburn, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1981, no. 96, p. 94 and 147

 

CATALOGUE NOTES

Bowl with gently curved sides and brown edged flared rim. Painted in underglaze blue of deep violet tone on the exterior with the Eight Daoist Immortals in a landscape of rocks, trees, waiting to greet Shau Lao arriving through clouds on his crane.