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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF GABY A. KETY, LOUISIANA PROVENANCE
1347 Spink & Son, London, 1962.
A SET OF EIGHT UNDERGLAZE-RED-DECORATED
POWDER-BLUE-GROUND DISHES These dishes are very similar to one illustrated by C. J. A. Jorg
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum,
Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, Amsterdam, 1997, p.
The center of each dish is decorated with a bare-chested man 127, no. 132, and cover detail. The author notes that the fgure
wearing an animal skin apron over his pants carrying a long pole, to may represent one of the ‘wandering combatants’ mentioned
which is attached a fy whisk, and possibly a straw hat, and with a in Chinese stories, possibly one of the ‘fghting monks’ in the
large bundle on his back, reserved on the rich powder-blue ground, novel Shuihu zhuan, and possibly Monk Hua who was adept at
while the exterior is decorated with two bamboo canes, and the singlestick fghting.
base with a small fower mark within a double circle.
清康熙 藍地釉裏紅人物圖盤八件
10¡ in. (26.3 cm.) diam. (8)
$20,000-30,000
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