A PAIR OF JAPANESE 'HUNDRED BOYS' DISHES
KANGXI PERIOD
Each decorated in blue in white with the 'Hall of One Hundred Boys' showing a central figure below the inscription Hyakushindo among a large group of boys
6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diameter (2)
Provenance
Anonymous sale, Christie's, Amsterdam, 8 December 1998, lot 411
Literature
Catalogue, Blue and White Exhibition, Gemeentelijk Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwaarden, 10 April - 19 June 1981, pl. 56
Lot Essay
Similar examples sold in our London Rooms 28 October 1987, lot 82 and 7 March 1988, lot 20, as well as in Christie's, Amsterdam, 20 and 21 May 2003, lot 400.
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