A pair of blue and white bowls Chenghua six-character mark, Kangxi
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A pair of blue and white bowls
Chenghua six-character marks, Kangxi
Each thinly potted, one delicately painted with a scene of a lady with two attendants stepping outside to greet an official divided by rocks from a lady and official in a garden, the interior central medallion with a scholar relaxing beneath a pine; the other painted with ladies meeting a messenger in a garden divided by rocks from a general gesticulating at three men on a high terrace, the interior similarly decorated with a relaxing scholar.
16cm (6 3/8in) diam. (2).
Sold for £5,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • Provenance: Christie's Amsterdam, 18 May 1994, lot 65
    The Inder Rieden Collection

Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art

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