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79  ¤
           A BLUE AND WHITE ‘XIXIANG JI’ BOWL                Provenance:
           Chenghua mark                                     Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929
           Kangxi                                            The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929-present
           Painted in rich cobalt blue tones with a continuous scene from the
           Xixiang ji (Romance of the Western Chamber) to the exterior, with   來源:
           figures in a courtly setting, below an everted rim with beribboned   William Rhinelander Stewart 遺贈,1929 年
           objects on a cell ground, the interior center with two boys in a garden   大都會藝術博物館,1929 年迄今
           setting, the cavetto plain, and floral sprays on a cell ground to interior
           rim, an encircled Chenghua six-character mark to the base.   The scenes from the Xixiang ji (Romance of the Western Chamber),
           8 1/4in (21cm) diam                               include depictions of Student Zhang. They may depict a number of
                                                             possible scenarios from Scenes 13, 22 and 23 in Book 7; or possibly
           $2,000 - 3,000                                    scene 9 from Book 2.
           清康熙 青花「西廂記」故事圖折沿碗
           青花「大明成化年製」雙圈楷書款
           Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




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