A RARE CHINESE WUCAI ‘SIXTEEN SONS’ BOWL

£2,000 - £3,000

£13,230

A RARE CHINESE WUCAI ‘SIXTEEN SONS’ BOWL
KANGXI 1662-1722

With gently rounded sides resting on a straight foot and sweeping to a delicately everted rim, the exterior brightly painted with a continuous scene of many boys playing in a garden with ornamental rocks and plantain leaves, and attended by their mothers; two of the boys fly kites while others play wearing a lion-dog costume. The interior rim with a band of pine, the centre with three further boys playing on a terrace, the base with a six character Chenghua mark within a double circle, 21.5cm.

Provenance: the Lawrence Collection, purchased from Spink & Son prior to 1959.

This subject is derived from the Shang dynasty story of Jiang Ziya, the senior military counsellor who famously appointed sixteen good generals.

清康熙五彩四妃十六子撇口碗
《大明成化年製》青花楷書仿款
來源：勞倫斯收藏，1959年前購於Spink & Son古董店。