A RARE SET OF SILVER FIGURES OF THE EIGHT IMMORTALS

Yangqinghe Jiuji marks, Late Qing/Early Republic period

In Chinese mythology the Eight Immortals are believed to know the secrets of nature. They represent separately male, female, the old, the young, the rich, the noble, the poor, and the humble Chinese.

Each Immortal's power can be transferred to a tool of power, kind of a talisman associated with a certain meaning, that can give life or destroy evil.

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Engraving of Rome's Pantheon and Piazza della Rotonda in the mid 1500's

Note the market buildings constructed up against its walls

Portrait of Juno [Uni] painted terracotta- c.380 BC.-National Etruscan Museum, Villa Giulia, Rome.