Page 64 - Marchant Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics May 2014

三 30. Blue and white thinly potted bowl with gently flared rim, painted on the exterior in a continuous scene with 30 magpies
十 perched on a large tree entwined with vine branches, beside further magpies in flight, above bamboo and rockwork

beneath clouds, the moon and constellations, further magpies perched on branches of pine issuing from rockwork, the
青 well of the interior painted with a single magpie perched on a flowering prunus branch issuing from rockwork above
花 bamboo and beneath clouds and a crescent moon, within a double ring.
梅 16.1cm diameter.
竹 The base with six-character mark of Chenghua within a double ring in underglaze blue, Kangxi, 1662-1722.
喜 Wood stand.
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圖 • Formerly in the collection of Dr and Mrs Rudorff.
盌 • Formerly in an American private collection.

• Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Chinese Blue and White – Wan Li to K’ang Hsi, 1980, no. 75.
清 • A similar bowl bearing a Kangxi mark is illustrated by Ulrich Weisner in Chinesisches Porzellan, Die Ohlmer’sche
康 Sammlung in Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, 1981, no. 32, p. 88.
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