The qing emperor kangxi in the early Blue and white the eight immortals birthday chart

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at Christie’s in New York on March 16, 2015 spring sale “bold and unrestrained, escape: Zhu Liya and John Curtis collection in the 17th century Chinese porcelain” special no. 3560 (for which he paid $27500)

the fairy characters falls between Ming dynasty and early qing Ming wu qing xing, a revolution in the history of social unrest, therefore very popular with all kinds of immortal characters as the theme of the decorative, express people pray for some fairy mundane wishes (lot4024), to save the world or hope from earthly disputes, he prowled the embodiment of the natural appeal (lot4025). After the construction of the qing dynasty, the social status is stable, and prosperity, and on late kangxi and yongzheng period of China, such as kuixing point bucket (lot4026), fu lu shou samsung (lot4027), and other top and my desires, happy happy life rich fairy figures subject before beginning to replace the same kind of grain and popular. Therefore, arts and crafts decorative is a miniature of the social situation at that time. The eight immortals

the eight immortals is widely circulated in the folklore of China’s eight immortals. Since the western han dynasty the huainan Wang Liuan into eight male and listed in the “huai south son”, have the legend of the eight immortals, who lived in ages past there are many different but referred to. Jinyuan period of quanzhen Taoism prosperity, as the image of the eight immortals of Taoism god stable gradually, until the Ming dynasty finally confirmed for iron turn to li, the clock from right, zhang guolao, blue and, xiangu, lu dongbin, han xiang, cao the prince’s maternal uncle. Ming dynasty porcelain painted the eight immortals can appear (lot4023) at the same time, also can separate show (lot4024). At a time when the eight immortals of the most popular decorative pattern is based on the eight immortals across to the queen’s birthday mythology as the background, both with the queen show at the same time, also can direct combination (lot4022) together with the birthday girl.