A BLUE AND WHITE SHALLOW BOWL QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the curved sides rising from a short foot to a slightly flared rim, the interior painted in bright cobalt blue with a lady and a scholar inside a pavilion, situated in a fenced garden and trees issuing from rocks in the background, with a deer in the foreground, the exterior with a sampan in a mountainous river landscape, the base inscribed with qishi baoding zhi zhen (precious as a treasured ding of rare stone) in underglaze blue within a double circle

This bowl is in good condition and slightly warped. There are minor firing imperfections to the glaze including burst bubbles and scratches to the glaze to the interior.
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See a blue and white bowl painted with a similar motif, but with a Kangxi mark and of the period, included in the exhibition Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 108; and another illustrated in Stephen Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683, China Institute in America, New York, pl. 29.