A blue and white bowl, Transition, 17th century.
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The base with a six-character Jiajing mark within double circle. Rounded sides on a short foot rim, decorated to the interior with a roundel with a riverscape. The exterior painted with a scene with two elegant ladies and a boy in a garden. Diameter 14 cm. Height 7 cm.
Chip.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.
Purchased at Bukowskis, Auction 552, lot no 1656.