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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE ‘BATS’ DISH                                                  A BLUE AND WHITE ‘BOYS’ BOWL

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE                                     QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)                                AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
The delicately potted dish is decorated in the center with three bats in            The bowl is fnely decorated on the exterior with a continuous scene of boys at
formation above rockwork emerging from foaming waves, all enclosed within           play, variously playing trumpets, drums and cymbals, and gathering around a
a double circle, below three fowering branches, and two similar branches are        square water pond, all on a terrace with plantain and willow trees.
on the exterior.                                                                    6¿ in. (15.5 cm.) diam.
4º in. (10.9 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box
                                                                                    $10,000-15,000
$10,000-15,000
                                                                                    PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
                                                                                    Private collection, Asia, acquired prior to 1949.
Christie’s London, 8 December 1986, lot 355 (part).
清雍正 青花壽山福海圖小盤 雙圈六字楷書款                                                               清乾隆 青花嬰戲圖盌 六字篆書款

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