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AN EXCEPTIONAL WUCAI 'EIGHTEEN LUOHANS' 'ELEPHANT-LEG' VASE Shunzhi Well potted of cylindrical form with slightly curving walls surmounted by a short waisted neck and everted rim painted brown, the body finely decorated in a rich palette of underglaze cobalt-blue and overglaze green, red and yellow enamels, with a continuous scene of eighteen Luohans with various attributes, one beside a bristling tiger, while three others ride a leaf, turtle and crayfish, several others seated on mats or lotus leaves, one caressing his long eyebrows, a dragon in the sky beneath wispy flames, the shoulder with a band of underglaze blue cracked-ice beneath upright petals of alternating red and green enamels. 44.8cm (17 2/3in) high.