A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer

A Chinese blue and white ‘Eight Immortals’ censer

Reference: ART1004107

The censer sturdily-potted censer is decorated with three evenly-spaced mythical-beast feet. The body is moulded with three registers, the largest is decorated with the Eight Immortals each with their respective attributes in a fenced garden below trees, all below a band of the Eight Trigrams, bagua, separated by scrolls and flames, and a keyfret band to the rim. The upper surface of the rim is decorated with flower scrolls.