TWO PAIRS OF DATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS AND A DATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, one pair painted with chrysanthemums (cracked), one dated bingwu year of the Great Qing, probably corresponding to AD 1666 and of the period, 11cm. diam., the other with a Chenghua six-character mark; the other pair painted with a crane perched on a pine branch, dated jiwei year, probably corresponding to AD 1919 and of the period, 8.6cm. diam., the single bowl painted with a long inscription and a panel depicting figures in a boat (rim chips, cracked), dated yisi year, probably corresponding to AD 1725 and of the period, 18cm. diam. (5)

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TWO PAIRS OF DATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWLS AND A DATED BLUE AND WHITE BOWL, one pair painted with chrysanthemums (cracked), one dated bingwu year of the Great Qing, probably corresponding to AD 1666 and of the period, 11cm. diam., the other with a Chenghua six-character mark; the other pair painted with a crane perched on a pine branch, dated jiwei year, probably corresponding to AD 1919 and of the period, 8.6cm. diam., the single bowl painted with a long inscription and a panel depicting figures in a boat (rim chips, cracked), dated yisi year, probably corresponding to AD 1725 and of the period, 18cm. diam. (5)

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The inscription on the last bowl loosely translates as follows:
"For the last five hundred years the start of autumn has as of old been welcomed by floating and lingering in a boat. Tonight the moon over the Eastern Mountains seem just like that autumn in the renxu year. A traveller caught some fish near the Red Cliff. The fishermen brought wine from Huangzhou, leaving a solitary crane to perch on a little boat by the banks of the river amid the myriad mountains".

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