Lot description
AN IMPORTANT TOBI SEIJI-DECORATED AND MOULDED LONGQUAN CELADON 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' OCTAGONAL MEIPING YUAN DYNASTY, 14TH CENTURY Well potted with eight-facetted sides above a flared foot, the wide body moulded in relief with the eight Daoist immortals, each standing amidst ruyi-shaped clouds within a bracket-lobed cartouche, dividing floral cartouches above and below, covered with a celadon glaze of deep olive-green tone thinning on the raised moulded edges, applied with iron-brown splashes to the corners and under each figure 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.) high, Japanese box
