A SUPERB AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS' BOWL MING DYNASTY, CHENGHUA PERIOD with deep rounded sides supported on a sturdy short foot, the exterior of the thick walls exquisitely depicted in shaded tones of cobalt with a continuous garden scene depicting twenty boys divided in several groups, including one with a boy riding a hobby-horse in the shade of a large leaf held up by another, another with two boys portrayed catching fish with their hands immersed in the water of a large fishbowl, and another of four boys rendered sitting on the ground, the dynamic and joyous scene further detailed with ornamental rockwork and verdant trees, the balustraded background picked out with a lotus pool, all against a distant mountainscape and ruyi clouds encircling the rim, below a double-line border repeated on the inner rim, the straight foot skirted with a key-fret border 22.5 cm, 8 7/8 in.
A SUPERB AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS' BOWL MING DYNASTY, CHENGHUA PERIOD with deep rounded sides supported on a sturdy short foot, the exterior of the thick walls exquisitely depicted in shaded tones of cobalt with a continuous garden scene depicting twenty boys divided in several groups, including one with a boy riding a hobby-horse in the shade of a large leaf held up by another, another with two boys portrayed catching fish with their hands immersed in the water of a large fishbowl, and another of four boys rendered sitting on the ground, the dynamic and joyous scene further detailed with ornamental rockwork and verdant trees, the balustraded background picked out with a lotus pool, all against a distant mountainscape and ruyi clouds encircling the rim, below a double-line border repeated on the inner rim, the straight foot skirted with a key-fret border 22.5 cm, 8 7/8 in.
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