Estimate
100 000 - 150 000 SEK
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.
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.