A GROUP OF NINETEEN BLUE AND WHITE TILES

KANGXI PERIOD

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A GROUP OF NINETEEN BLUE AND WHITE TILES
KANGXI PERIOD
Comprising eighteen decorated in the spandrels with ribbon-tied auspicious emblems, three of these with a Chinese mother and son relaxing in a garden, the others with chrysanthemum growing beside grasses or birds amongst prunus boughs, the last tile with overall scene of a Chinese fisherman wading out to the basket he has left in a stream
5¼ x 5¼ in. (13.3 x 13.3 cm.) each, approximately (19)

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Blue and white tiles, which today we associate so strongly with Dutch interiors, are yet another innovation that appeared first in China, where tiles intended for architecture where made as early as the first quarter of the 15th century. See Xuande Imperial Porcelain Excavated at Jingdezhen, Chang Foundation, 1998, p. 122.

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