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Fine Chinese Tea bowl and Saucer Kangxi


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A moulded tea bowl and matching saucer of lotus form with barbed rim painted in underglaze blue with a “leaping boy” and a “Long Liza” in a landscape holding a fan in alternating panels set against a wave and scroll ground. The central reserve containing the female figure set in a landscape with a Hare and a rising moon, clearly depicted in the interior of tea bowl, which would suggest that the figure represents the Queen Mother of the West, Xi Wangmu, and the leaping boy is an avatar of one of the Daoist Immortals, or an attendant. The tea bowl measures 7.2cm in diameter 4cm high to the rim and the saucer measures 12cm in diameter and stands 2cm to the rim. The tea bowl and saucer are in good condition, the teabowl is in good condition some glaze skip to a small area and the saucer has some minor fritting to several of the barbed tips, no cracks, significant chips or restoration. The unglazed foot-rim has characteristic yellow cast of porcelain of the Kangxi period. Dating late Kangxi or Yongzheng. Shipping at Cost. £75 - $140