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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘BOYS’ DISH A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLOWER
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD BASKET’ DISH
WANLI MARK AND PERIOD
the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing two
boys at play in a terraced garden beneath an overhanging pine painted in shades of dark blue with an arrangement of varying
bough and pierced rockwork and plants in the foreground, the blooms in an arched-handled basket, a frieze of fans, leaves,
boys wearing costumes of oversized robes and elaborate hats bamboo and waterweed and a single line encircling the lipped
and one with a false mustache, the underside with ten furthers rim, the underside with owering boughs and insects, the base
boys at play amid trees and rocks, the base with an apocryphal with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Jiajing mark Diameter 3⅜ in., 8.6 cm
Diameter 5¾ in., 14.6 cm
$ 2,000-3,000
PROVENANCE
Collection of Pauline B. (1910-2000) and Myron S. (1906-1992)
Falk Jr., New York.
Christie’s New York, 21st September 2001, lot 488.
Ming revival porcelains were popular in the rst half of the
Kangxi period. The present dish closely resembles its Jiajing
imperial prototype. A Jiajing mark and period example from
the Pilkington Collection was sold recently in our Hong Kong
rooms 6th April 2016, lot 34.
$ 2,000-3,000
Pauline B 1910 2000 Myron S 1906 1992 Falk Jr
2001 9 21 488
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