A BLUE AND WHITE 'WANG XIZHI AND GOOSE' CUP QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

delicately potted of deep U-shape with flared rim and a short foot, finely painted on the exterior with a continuous scene of the scholar Wang Xizhi admiring a stream of floating geese beneath a large willow tree, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double square

This cup is in good condition with the exception of a minute flake to the rim, and a very fine glaze line to the exterior above the geese (approx. 0.4 cm). There are few very tiny burst bubbles and iron spots.
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Compare a pair of doucai bowls painted with Zhang Qian, included in the Kau Chi Society exhibition Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 150.