Med rundades sidor, utsvängd mynning, dekor i underglasyrblått med en fortlöpande scen med pojkar som leker, spelar insturment och umgås kring den damm. Diameter 15,5 cm.
Property of a private Swedish Collector who was active during the first half of the 20th century, thence by descent within the family.
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.
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.