A blue and white 'Yingzi' (Boys at play) bowl, Qing dynasty with a Daouguang mark and of the period (1821-50).
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The bowl with rounded sides, on a short footrim, flared rim and is finely decorated on the exterior with a continuous scene of boys at play, variously playing trumpets, drums and cymbals, and gathering around a square water pond, all on a terrace with plantain and willow trees. Diameter 15,5 cm.
Provenance
Property of a private Swedish Collector who was active during the first half of the 20th century, thence by descent within the family.
Exhibitions
Compare with similar bowl, also Daoguang mark and period, in the Östasiatiska Museum, Stockholm. OM-1963-0043. Donated by Karin Falkman (född Wallenberg), (1891-1977), daughter of Gustaf Wallenberg in whoms collection the bowl came from.
Compare a similar bow in the collection of Minneapolis institute of art, Accession No 2022.73.10.
Compare also one at the Gardiner Museum. Object no G01.2.100. From the collection of Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell.
Compare also with a bowl of this type sold at Sothebys, lot 691. Chinese Art, 01 June 2017, Hong Kong.
Compare with a bowl of this type sold at Sothebys, lot 18. Chinese Art
6 November 2024• London.
More information
This lively design of boys at play traces its origins back to the Song dynasty and bears a close resemblance to a group of bowls generally attributed to the Chenghua period (1465-87). Compare two possible prototypes of Chenghua mark and period in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition Ming Chenghua ciqi tezhan [Special exhibition of Chenghua porcelain], Taipei, 1976, cat. nos 109 and 110; and three more of related design excavated from the Chenghua stratum at Jingdezhen, included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelains from the Reign of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty, vol I, Palace Museum, Beijing, 2016, pls 51-53.