Decorated in underglaze blue with two central scenes depicting the literati on an outing in nature with attendants preparing for them to engage in scholarly pursuits, one can see a wrapped qin intrument, books, and other things being brought along. The countersunk base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark. Height 15 cm. Diameter 18 cm.
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Provenance
Property of a private Swedish collector, purchased by the present owners in Stockholm at auction in the early 1920's thence by descent.
Sigge Björcks Konsthandel, 1924, from the Collection of C E Gadelius, lot no 110.
More information
The mark in black reads 康熙叁拾四年叁月拾陸日 The sixteenth day of the third month of the thirty-fourth year of the Kangxi period.
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