YONGZHENG PERIOD

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN FAMILLE ROSE OCTAGONAL PUNCHBOWL
YONGZHENG PERIOD
Each panel delicately painted with a scene from "Romance of the Western Chamber", the interior rim with panels of lotus and floral medallions on a cell-pattern ground, the center with large peony blooms
15 in. (31.8 cm.) diameter

Provenance

With Chait Galleries, New York.

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Lot Essay

Xi Xiang Ji is a well-known tale, which has its origins in a 8th/9th Century prose story called Yingying Zhuan (The Biography of Yingying). By the 12th Century it had developed into a long ballad, and it was then that the story acquired its happy ending and has remained popular ever since. The story concerns the romance between Zhang Sheng, a talented but poor scholar, and Cui Yingying, a beautiful maiden, whose mother Madam Zheng will not allow the couple to marry. She sends Zhang away to the capital to seek his fortune (scholarly success). In the end he is successful and claims Yingying as his bride.

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