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A bowl depicting the eight daoist immortals Of quatrefoil form with a scalloped, gilt-edged lip, raised on a high foot with a flared rim; on the outer wall, a continuous scene of Daoist Immortals meeting in a heavenly garden; Chung-Li Ch’uan looks over towards Lan Ts-ai-Ho bearing a basket, as Ts’ao Kuo-Chu flings his castanets towards Liu Hai, who has a chain of coins around his neck and is riding Jin Chan (the Money Frog) through crashing waves; to Liu Hai’s left, the Heavenly Twins, one holding a lotus stem, the other holding a treasure box; around the corner, Shou-Lao peers up at two ladies; beyond the rocks to the left, Cai Shen holds a ruyi sceptre and two others converse with a small boy, while in the sky to the left, Lu Tung-Pin rides on the back of a crane, three others are waiting on the ground, nearby are two more cranes; the boughs of a tall pine tree overhead; inside, a shoal of nine carp swim among succulent water plants; the foot with a pattern of bats swooping among lilies and lotus flowers, surrounded by floral scrolls, all set between copper coloured bands; all against a white ground, the base glazed, with the six-character mark of Jiaqing in red. Length: 26 cm.