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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS’ DISH 明萬曆ǎ青花嬰戲圖盤ǎ雙१Ս字楷書款
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DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
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年 月 日
PROVENANCE: 日内‹艾ḓΏĤ梵達і及莉奧妮Ĥ梵達і伉儷珍藏
Private collection, Kyoto, formed primarily in the 18 century. і敦ωૈ得
年 月 日
拍品編號
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The Peony Pavilion Collection; Christie’s London, 12 June 1989, lot 285.
David Ho, Oriental Art, Sydney.
Sotheby's Amsterdam, 28 November 2000, lot 353.
Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London.
(two views) The Collection of Albert and Leonie Van Daalen, Geneva.
Christie’s London, 5 November 2019, lot 26.
The depiction of children at play is a visually pleasing, auspicious subject
matter that was popular in Chinese art during the Ming dynasty. The subject
1044 has its roots in Buddhist beliefs, influenced by Daoism, but by the Tang
A LARGE AND UNUSUAL WUCAI CYLINDRICAL 'DRAGON' VASE 過渡期ǎ十ˑˠ紀中葉ǎ̩彩雙龍雲紋筒瓶 dynasty (AD 618-907) had become a secular theme associated with the
TRANSITIONAL PERIOD, MID-17TH CENTURY auspicious wish for sons and grandsons. One boy on this dish is depicted
holding a lotus stem and this may be a rebus or visual pun. The word for
17q in. (44.5 cm.) high lotus in Chinese is lian which is a homophone for a word meaning continuous
or successive, and when combined with a boy suggests the successive birth
$7,000-10,000 of sons and grandsons.

Two similar wucai vases also decorated with two four-clawed dragons, one While boys at play was a favorite subject during the Ming dynasty, the
ascending and the other descending, are published in J. Ayers, Chinese and charming scene on the present dish, sometimes referred to as 'blind man's
Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, bluff', is rare. A pair of dishes with the same scene is illustrated by B.
2016, p. 141, nos. 275-76. McElney in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, Volume I,
Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, p. 204, no. 157. (reverse)