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A SUPERB AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 明成化 青花嬰戲圖盌
‘BOYS’ BOWL
來源：
MING DYNASTY, CHENGHUA PERIOD
倫敦蘇富比1972年5月23日，編號127
with deep rounded sides supported on a sturdy short foot, the 香港蘇富比1974年10月31日，編號69
exterior of the thick walls exquisitely depicted in shaded tones 香港蘇富比1989年11月14日，編號25
of cobalt with a continuous garden scene depicting twenty
boys divided in several groups, including one with a boy riding 展覽：
a hobby-horse in the shade of a large leaf held up by another, 《求知雅集珍藏中國古陶瓷展》，香港中文大學，香
another with two boys portrayed catching fish with their hands
immersed in the water of a large fishbowl and another of four 港，1981年，編號71（圖片反置）
boys rendered sitting on the ground, the dynamic and joyous
出版：
scene further detailed with ornamental rockwork and verdant
trees, the balustraded background picked out with a lotus pool, 楊勝德及馬紀恩，《中國青花瓷器》，新加坡，1978年，
all against a distant mountainscape and ruyi clouds encircling 彩圖28
the rim, below a double-line border repeated on the inner rim,
the straight foot skirted with a key-fret border
22.5 cm, 8⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s London, 23rd May 1972, lot 127.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31st October 1974, lot 69.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 14th November 1989, lot 25.

EXHIBITED
Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of
the Kau Chi Society of Chinese Art, The Chinese University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 71. (illustration mirrored)
LITERATURE
S.T. Yeo and Jean Martin, Chinese Blue and White Ceramics,
Singapore, 1978, col. fig. 28.

HK$ 6,000,000-8,000,000
US$ 770,000-1,030,000

48 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比