A fine and rare doucai 'immortals' dish

Qing dynasty, Kangxi / Yongzheng period

清康熙 / 雍正 鬥彩壽老觀卷圖盤

delicately painted with a central medallion depicting Shoulao seated atop a rock reading a scroll, a pine tree stretching overhead and an attendant preparing incense in the foreground, the cavetto encircled by the 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' entwined in a foliate scroll, the exterior with a continuous frieze depicting the 'Eight Daoist Immortals' in a riverscape, the base centered with an iron-red roundel of a crane bearing a peach bough in its beak

Diameter 6 in., 15.3 cm

Collection of Commander F. Warrington-Strong.

Sotheby's London, 23rd May 1972, lot 173. 

Sotheby's London, 8th-9th July 1974, lot 434.

Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 11th August 1975.

Collection of Frederick Knight. 

Bluett & Sons Ltd., London, 13th October 1982.

Collection of Chia-Shi Lin (1930-2020), and thence by descent. 

來源

F. Warrington-Strong 指揮官收藏

倫敦蘇富比1972年5月23日，編號173

倫敦蘇富比1974年7月8至9日，編號434

Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦，1975年8月11日

Frederick Knight 收藏

Bluett & Sons Ltd.，倫敦，1982年10月13日

林教授 (1930-2020) 緣木得魚齋珍藏，此後家族傳承