A BLUE AND WHITE FACETED BOWL KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD |

of square section with chamfered corners, the flared sides rising from a circular base to a lipped rim, the interior painted with three boys playing ball on a misty mountain path, each side of the exterior with an elegant lady seated on an outdoor terrace leisurely engaged in embroidery, playing the diza (flute), teasing a cat with a toy, or painting at a rootwood desk, the base with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, coll. no. 10.

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1998.

The bowl with restored frits or small chips to the corners, otherwise in overall good condition.
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Compare a similar bowl with scholars to the exterior and an apocryphal Xuande mark on the base in the Palace Museum Collection is illustrated in Chen Runmin, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci [Qing Dynasty Blue and White Porcelains of the Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods], Beijing, 2005, pl. 149.