Featured Help dating 8 Immortals Vase w/ Qianlong 4 Character Mark

Hello everyone,

I have hit a roadblock finding a "like shaped" vase in my searches. I've come close (say 3 out of 5 elements) but nothing that really shouts "That's It!"

So necessarily I'm having trouble dating (or even giving a solid geographic) to this 8 immortals, coin embossed, melon shaped vase with 4 character Qianlong mark

Any insight you could provide would be greatly appreciated ~ Thank you

Dimensions:

Height 18" / 45.7cm

Shoulder = 27" / 68.5cm circ
Foot = 15" / 38cm circ
Mouth = 6.5" / 16.5cm circ

Weight = 9lbs / 4kg

 

Can’t help, sorry..but just wanted to say it’s very beautiful

 

"KiwiSusan, post: …it’s very beautiful

Thank you. Lucky find at a resale shop. It gets a lot of attention from my guests and I’m at a loss for a backstory

 

Thinking later 20th to current, but to be totally honest mostly because I haven’t seen this decor before, the mark is not under glazed and the gold gilding is not old. The shape is Chinese meiping, if you want to see others. Very pretty.


not sure what exactly your seeing about the immortals? Wait for other to chime in.

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mmarco102

The shape is Chinese meiping

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Thank you, I've changed the photos to "full image"

Yes, it's definitely meiping-ish but it has zero waist
Just a smooth, even taper from shoulder to foot

 

Definitely later

 

Ditto. My guess is very recent Jingdezhen, it has that quality.

A meiping doesn't have a waist. Sometimes the base is flared, but not always. So yours is definitely a meiping, no -ish needed.
You could call it a melon meiping.

 

I wanted to say that.

 

Great minds need no -ish.

 

I really like it, but I agree with the others that it is likely fairly modern. Perhaps a modern twist on old decoration and design? I wonder if that mark is on gotheborg.com

 

It is as if they want to showcase every design they make. And it even works together.

 

I looked..... no exact match....but Sothebys out of Hong Kong sold a pair.....solid pale blue..... with what looked like an authentic old mark......that was very close...
No double red line with gold backing........and the price was..... WOW.......

 

Age: yesterday at earliest. Maybe this morning. It’s damn nice though. Has great decorative value. Maybe it will be considered a fine antique that when your great grandchildren are old. I’d have bought it at the right price.

 

Definitely the Eight Immortals decorating the vase. Pictured are Zhang Guolao (top, holding a peach of immortality) and Han Xiangzi (bottom, playing a flute).