Ref: W519
£ 8,500
Price is subject to availability and market conditions.
Exceptional Chinese blue and white klaptmuts bowl, Kangxi (1662-1722) the sides finely painted in a bright underglaze blue with three ruyi-head shaped panels each containing one of the ‘Three Friends of Winter'; which are pine, plum and bamboo, against a cellular background and interspersed with beribboned Buddhist symbol of the 'Three Jewels' (Triratna), the everted rim with peach-shaped panels containing the ‘shou’ symbol (happiness and longevity), and ogee-shaped panels containing peaches, ruyi sceptres and flowers, against a cellular background, the inside central cicular panel containing finger fruit, pomegranate and flowers encircled by a ruyi-head band all within a further cellular band, the interior rim with six further cartouches against a fine floral cellular ground, the base with an underglaze six character Chenghua mark within concentric circles.