Five late Ming blue and white 'klapmuts' bowls and two saucers

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Five late Ming blue and white 'klapmuts' bowls and two saucers
Wanli
The bowls painted variously at the centre with a Buddhistic Symbol, a bird perched on a branch, a pine landscape and with a young boy strolling under a parasol, all below shaped panels of fruit and flowers divided by tassels; and two saucers decorated in the star-shaped medallion with a grasshopper and with Buddhistic Symbols, surrounded by roundels of peach and further Symbols (frittings, two with cracks)
approx. 14 cm. diam. (7)

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