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Lot Essay
The elaborate and highly amusing design on the present bowl is based on earlier Ming prototypes of children gathered in groups playing in a landscaped garden. The earliest representation in this format can be seen on a Yongle blue and white bowl exhibited at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15.
Bowls of this particular design and palette most commonly appear in the Jiaqing period (1796-1820). Although the original Kangxi versions are more rare, an example can be found in the collection of the Tsui Museum, Hong Kong, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Hong Kong, 1995, pl.104. A pair of bowls with identical design but from the Qianlong period is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1987, pl. 952.
Jiaqing examples include a bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.159; and two bowls in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, no. 100, subsequently sold at Christie's London, 13 December 1982, lot 528.
Bowls of this particular design and palette most commonly appear in the Jiaqing period (1796-1820). Although the original Kangxi versions are more rare, an example can be found in the collection of the Tsui Museum, Hong Kong, illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 4, Hong Kong, 1995, pl.104. A pair of bowls with identical design but from the Qianlong period is illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1987, pl. 952.
Jiaqing examples include a bowl in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.159; and two bowls in the O.C.S. Exhibition of Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, no. 100, subsequently sold at Christie's London, 13 December 1982, lot 528.