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PROPERTY FROM A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTION
A BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS' DISH
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing two boys at play in a terraced garden beneath an overhanging pine bough and pierced rockwork and plants in the foreground, the boys wearing costumes of oversized robes and elaborate hats and one with a false mustache, the underside with ten further boys at play amid trees and rocks, the base with an apocryphal Jiajing mark
Diameter 5 3/4 in., 14.6 cm
Estimate
2,000
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3,000
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