Two blue and white bowls

BOTH WITH CHENGHUA SIX CHARACTER MARK, KANGXI

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Two blue and white bowls
Both with Chenghua six character mark, Kangxi
One with steeply rounded sides and flaring rim, painted to the exterior with two women and two men in an outdoor setting, the inner roundel with a solitary male figure seated in front of an incense burner (rim cracks and related chip), 20.3 cm. diam.; and a bowl painted with four ladies watching over two children in a terraced garden, the interior with a medallion enclosing a woman seated against a rock, below a trellis-diaper pattern band with vignettes enclosing peach (firing crack), 21 cm. diam. (2)

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