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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘SILK PRODUCTION’
BOWL
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot,
finely painted around the exterior in rich cobalt-blue tones
with three scenes of silk production, the exterior with
a woman and attendant carrying baskets amid leafing
mulberry trees and a group a three ladies minding trays of
silk worm cocoons, divided by an inscription, the interior with
a medallion depicting silk weaving with one woman seated
at a loom and two others nearby holding spools all enclosed
by double lines and a dense honeycomb diaper border under
the rim, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze
blue, wood stand (2)
Diameter 8 in., 20.3 cm
PROVENANCE
ralph m. Chait Galleries, new York, 18th December 1997.

EXHIBITED
Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art,
middlebury College museum of art, middlebury, Vermont, 752
september 2005.
$ 5,000-7,000

清康熙 青花耕織圖詩文盌
《大清康熙年製》款
題識：
大起
盈筐大起時 食葉聲似雨 春風老不知 蠶婦忙如許
呼童留早麥 朝飯已過午 妖歌得綾羅 不易青裙女

來源
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，1997年12月18日
展覽
《Inaugural Exhibition of the Robert F. Reiff Gallery of
Asian Art》，明德大學藝術博物館，米德爾堡，佛蒙
特州，2005年9月

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propertY From a FLorIDa prIVate CoLLeCtIon
A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE DISH
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the gently rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot,
the interior painted in varying tones of blue with a house
in a mountainous river landscape, a lady at the window of
the second story finishing her coiffure in a circular mirror,
a figure at the riverbank below harvesting leafy vegetables,
the ‘three Friends of Winter’ growing about the walls of the 753
house, a poetic colophon inscribed to the lower right, the
base inscribed yutangjiaqi (‘beautiful vessel for the jade hall’)
in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 13¾ in., 35 cm
$ 8,000-12,000

清康熙 青花人物故事圖詩文大盤
《玉堂佳器》款 329