KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'THREE FRIENDS' BOWL
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The exterior well painted in bright blue tones with pine, prunus and bamboo between double lines around the rim and base, the interior with a central cloud medallion
5 1/4 in. (13.4 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

W.B.R. Neave Hill
Previously sold at Christie's London, 12 September 1991, lot 206

Literature

W.B.R. Neave-Hill, Chinese Ceramics, col. pl. 146, p.125

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Lot Essay

The design of the 'Three Friends of Winter', bamboo, prunus and pine became popular on porcelain of the Chenghua period (1465-1487) and continued as a favoured pattern through to the late Qing period.

A Kangxi-marked blue and white teapot with a similar decoration of 'three friends' is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Selected Porcelain of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, p. 48, no. 6.

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