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四 4. A Chinese imperial porcelain blue and white small dish painted in the centre with two seated boys playing Chinese chess, xiangqi
and two further boys standing watching beside a fence, with overhanging rockwork and plants above lotus leaves, all within a double
御 ring medallion, beneath two further lines at the rim, the underside with sixteen boys at play in a fenced landscape, beside palm and
製 willow beneath clouds, all between double lines.
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花 6 ⅛ inches, 15.5 cm diameter.
嬰 Six-character mark of Longqing within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1567-1572.
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圖 • Formerly in a private Egyptian collection, Alexandria, before 1930.
盤 • A similar Longqing dish with two boys is published by Adrian M. Joseph in Ming Porcelains, Their Origins and Development,
no. 50.
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