Two underglaze-blue and copper-red 'immortals' dishes

Qing dynasty, 18th / 19th century

清十八 / 十九世紀 青花釉裏紅八仙過海紋盤兩件

《養和堂製》《慶宜堂製》款

each with shallow rounded sides, the short gently tapered foot rising to an everted rim, the exterior painted with the 'Eight Daoist Immortals' in underglaze blue against a swirling ground of stylized copper-red waves, the interior centering a medallion enclosing Shoulao and a deer against a further wave ground, cloud scrolls and a partially obscured sun above, the recessed bases glazed white with hallmarks in underglaze blue within double squares, one reading Qingyi tangzhi and the other Yanghe tangzhi (2)

Diameter 6 ? in., 16.3 cm

Weisbrod & Dy, Toronto.

Canadian Private Collection, acquired from the above between 1960s and 1980s, and thence by descent. 

來源

Weisbrod & Dy，多倫多

加拿大私人收藏，1960年代至1980年代購於上述處，此後家族傳承