A RARE SILVER-GILT AND BLUE ENAMEL 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOX AND COVER Late 19th century, stamped marks of Hui Yuan, Jiujiang, circa 1875-1895 (2)A RARE SILVER-GILT AND BLUE ENAMEL 'EIGHT IMMORTALS' BOX AND COVERLate 19th century, stamped marks of Hui Yuan, Jiujiang, circa 1875-1895Of circular form, the top of the flat cover decorated in relief with the 'Eight Immortals', each holding their various attributes set in a garden scene, encircled by a band of leafy grapevines to the border and the straight sides, the straight sides of the box further decorated in relief with a continuous scene of the immortals gathering in a garden landscape, the base stamped with three seal marks reading Wenyin, Huiyuan, and Jiujiang. 16.4cm (6 3/8in) diam. (2).十九世紀晚期，約1875-1895年 銀鎏金鏨胎填藍琺瑯八仙祝壽圖蓋盒 「紋銀」、「匯源」、「九江」款The semi-translucent blue enamel on the present box is referred to as basse-taille, or guangfalang, a technique that was introduced to Guangdong enamel workshops in the 18th century, and used primarily during the Qianlong period. One of a pair of basins decorated in this technique, with gold and silver foil and transparent blue enamel on a copper body, which was sent as tribute from Guangzhou to Beijing, is illustrated by Chuimei Ho and Bennet Bronson in Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign of Emperor Qianlong, London and New York, 2004, p.263, fig.341. Another example of a silver-gilt and blue enamel tripod incense burner, Qianlong mark and period, is in the Tai'an Museum, Shangdong, illustrated in Zhongguo jinyin boli falangqi quanji: 5: falangqi vol.1, Heibei, 2001, no.239.According to the research by Adrien von Ferscht, Hui Yuan is identified as one of the four silversmiths in Jiujing, who created quality silver for the export market in the West as well as to affluent Chinese and foreign residents during the late 19th to the early 20th century, see Adrien von Ferscht, Chinese Export Silver 1785-1940, Catalogue of Makers' Marks, Glasgow, 2013, pp.8, 12 and 21.