a blue and white 'trigrams' bowl
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a blue and white 'trigrams' bowl

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND PROBABLY OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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a blue and white 'trigrams' bowl
Kangxi six-character mark within a double circle and probably of the period (1662-1722)
With steep rounded sides rising from a high foot to a slightly flaring rim, the exterior painted with the eight trigrams above breaking waves around the base, the interior with a ying and yang motif in the medallion within double-bands, base star crack
(12 cm.) diam.
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拍品專文

A pair of similar bowls is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, pl. 50, where it is noted that the Eight Trigrams, invented by the legendary Fuxi in remote antiquty and adopted by the Daoists during the Ming period, are rarely found on Qing Dynasty porcelain. Another example from the Goldschmidt Collection, formerly in the collections of E. and J. Baerwald, Berlin and J. Post, Amsterdam was sold in London, 17 December 1980, lot 654 and in Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 6