Lan Caihe

Personality Angle

Lan Caihe suggests free-spirited, creative, restless, open-hearted energy in the older mythology.

If this is your match

You are the wild song in the street: creative, mobile, and allergic to cages. Your gift is reminding people that wonder often arrives off-schedule.

Eight Immortals and Twelve Zodiac Animals

A strong overview image for showing how the Ba Xian group circulated through popular print culture.

China, Suzhou, 18th century · Woodblock print; ink and hand coloring on paper · Source: The Met

Panel with immortals

Useful as a classical-art anchor because it moves beyond porcelain into textile and courtly decorative language.

China, 18th century · Silk and metal thread embroidery on silk satin · Source: The Met

Table screen with immortals

A compact decorative object that shows immortal imagery as part of scholar-table display culture.

China, 17th century · Pewter and brass · Source: The Met

Jar with the Eight Immortals

A vivid Ming-dynasty object for explaining how Eight Immortals imagery appears on ceramics.

China, 16th century · Fahua ware porcelain with relief decoration under colored glazes · Source: The Met

Box with Daoist Immortals

China, mid-16th century · Porcelain painted with cobalt blue under transparent glaze (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Wrist rest with seascape and eight immortals

China, 18th century · Ivory · Source: The Met

Cup with Eight Daoist Immortals

China, late 18th-19th century · Rhinoceros horn · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 1

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 2

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 3

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 4

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 5

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 6

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 7

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — view 8

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Bowl with the Eight Immortals — reign mark

China, late 18th-early 19th century · Porcelain painted in overglaze polychrome enamels over engraved pink ground (Jingdezhen ware) · Source: The Met

Jar with Immortals (Walters 491335)

China, 1572-1619 · Blue and white porcelain jar depicting eight immortals crossing the sea · Source: Walters Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Jar with Immortals (Walters 491525)

China, 1573-1619 · Blue and white porcelain jar depicting eight immortals crossing the sea · Source: Walters Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons

Octafoil Mirror with Two Immortals Crossing the Ocean

A useful early object for connecting the famous crossing-the-ocean motif to material culture.

China, mid-900s-late 1200s · Bronze mirror · Source: Cleveland Museum of Art

New Year's Lamps representing the Eight Immortals

A folk and festival-oriented counterpoint to museum painting and ceramic examples.

China, Qing dynasty, 19th century · Buffalo horn, colored and painted · Source: Wikimedia Commons / Ethnological Museum, Berlin

New Year's Lamps representing the Eight Immortals (second view)

China, Qing dynasty, 19th century · Buffalo horn, colored and painted · Source: Wikimedia Commons / Ethnological Museum, Berlin

Gathering of the Yaochi Immortals (瑤池仙劇圖)

China, Ming dynasty, 1644 · Hanging scroll; ink and colour on silk, by Zhang Chong · Source: British Museum via Wikimedia Commons

The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea

Illustration, 1922 · Book plate from E.T.C. Werner's Myths and Legends of China · Source: Project Gutenberg via Wikimedia Commons

Eight Immortals diorama, Haw Par Villa

Singapore, photographed 2014 · Diorama of the Eight Immortals battling the Dragon King, Haw Par Villa park · Source: Wikimedia Commons