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360 A BLUE AND WHITE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞䪸ٶЂຠృఈ᫦՚㻿⯹
FACETED BOWL Ȩ๔⌲Ꮴ⛆Ꭱ㸪ȩ

Kangxi Mark and Period ҳ⎽
Ralph M Chait Galleries秣秉1998䎃
of square section with chamfered corners, the
" ared sides rising from a circular base to a
lipped rim, the interior painted with three boys
playing ball on a misty mountain path, each
side of the exterior with an elegant lady seated
on an outdoor terrace leisurely engaged in
embroidery, playing the diza (" ute), teasing a
cat with a toy, or painting at a rootwood desk,
the base with a six-character reign mark in
underglaze blue within a double circle, coll.
no. 10.
Width 5¾ in., 14.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1998.
Compare a similar bowl with scholars to the
exterior and an apocryphal Xuande mark on
the base in the Palace Museum Collection
is illustrated in Chen Runmin, Qing Shunzhi
Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Qing Dynasty Blue and
White Porcelains of the Shunzhi and Kangxi
Periods], Beijing, 2005, pl. 149.
$ 6,000-8,000

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