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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

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A TWO-SIDED BLUE AND WHITE
RECTANGULAR TILE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

清康熙 青花人物圖瓷磚

One side is decorated with three ladies in a
fenced garden in front of a pavilion, the scene
is surrounded by a trellis border. The reverse is
decorated with a scholar and his attendant in a
mountainous river landscape.

10º in. (26 cm.) wide

£3,000-5,000 $4,600-7,600
€4,100-6,800

PROVENANCE: 1151 (two views)

Property from a private English collection.

Compare the current tile to one of similar form
and size, decorated with a scene from the
Western Zhou dynasty legend of Wen Wang, from
the collection of Julia and John Curtis, illustrated
by Julia B. Curtis in ‘Markets, Motifs and
Seventeenth-Century Porcelain from Jingdezhen’,
The Porcelains of Jingdezhen, Colloquies on Art &
Archaeology in Asia No. 16, London, 1992, p. 131,
pl. 8.

1152 PROVENANCE:

A BLUE AND WHITE FIGURAL BOWL The bowl: With Geofrey Waters, London, acquired in
AND A BLUE AND WHITE ‘SHOU’ 2000.
CHARACTER DISH The saucer: With Geofrey Waters, London, acquired
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) in 2003.
Property from a private English collection.
清康熙
青花西廂記圖碗及青花福祿壽盤 來源: 碗 - 於2000年購自倫敦古董商Geof-
frey Waters;盤 - 於2003年購自倫敦古董
The bowl is decorated with two narrative 商Geoffrey Waters
scenes from the Romance of the Western
Chamber, Xi Xiangji, the interior is decorated
with boys at play. The dish is decorated
with a fuloushou roundel to the centre and
surrounded by numerous variations of the
shou character. The exterior is similarly
decorated. Both vessels have apocryphal
Chenghua marks to the bases.

The larger, 6º in. (15.8 cm.) diam. (2)

£1,500-2,500 $2,300-3,800
€2,100-3,400

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