A Chinese Famille Noir Relief Decorated Vase with the Eight Immortals

Guangxu Period (1875–1908), an ovoid form vase with tall cylindrical neck, richly enameled against a lustrous black ground and applied in high relief with figures of the Eight Immortals (Ba Xian), each individually modeled and depicted in flowering robes with their respective attributes, dispersed amidst swirling polychrome cloud scrolls, encircling the neck at the shoulder is an iron red dragon, the underside with an impressed iron-brown six-character Guangxu seal mark.

13 1/2 x 9 in. diameter

From the Collection of Helen Rindlbacher Ward, and by descent
Helen Rindlbacher Ward was born in Shanghai in 1936 to German parents, her father was one of the few foreigners who worked at the Chinese Aluminium Rolling Mills, Ltd company. Her family returned to Germany in 1955, and Helen moved to the United States in 1965 after marrying an Army officer. The Chinese artworks in this collection were all acquired in Shanghai during the 1930s-1950s.

A few small surface marks and firing hairlines visible; otherwise good estate condition.