Lot 79: A BLUE AND WHITE 'XIXIANG JI' BOWL Chenghua mark, Kangxi

A BLUE AND WHITE '
XIXIANG JI' BOWL

Chenghua mark, Kangxi

Painted in rich cobalt blue tones with a continuous scene from the
Xixiang ji (
Romance of the Western Chamber) to the exterior, with figures in a courtly setting, below an everted rim with beribboned objects on a cell ground, the interior center with two boys in a garden setting, the cavetto plain, and floral sprays on a cell ground to interior rim, an encircled
Chenghua six-character mark to the base.


8 1/4in (21cm) diam

Two small chips to rim underside that rise slightly to the rim edge. Some iron-spots, air bubble pinpricks, minor glaze pull and surface wear but all unobtrusive.

清康熙 青花「西廂記」故事圖折沿碗

青花「大明成化年製」雙圈楷書款



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Bequest of William Rhinelander Stewart, 1929

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1929-present




來源：

William Rhinelander Stewart 遺贈，1929 年

大都會藝術博物館，1929 年迄今



The scenes from the
Xixiang ji (
Romance of the Western Chamber), include depictions of Student Zhang. They may depict a number of possible scenarios from Scenes 13, 22 and 23 in Book 7; or possibly scene 9 from Book 2.

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