Vibrant blue and white bowls that are of deep form and thinly potted. Each is painted on the exterior with two panels with scenes taken from “Xi Xiang Ji”. The interior is painted with three boys at play by a rocky ledge with a building in the distance. There is a six character Jiajing mark to the base of each bowl. Diameter: 15.5 cm.
The Avalon Collection. This collection, which in the main focuses on the Interregnum and Kangxi periods
has been both carefully and sensitively formed over the last twenty-five years. The collector, a member of the English Oriental Ceramic Society, has assembled the collection with an eye for provenance whilst purchasing from old European collections, well-established antique dealers and at auction. Academically, the pieces have been well researched both in terms of their symbolism and narrative themes. In many instances the imagery on the pieces has been referenced to episodes in the romantic and historic novels of Chinese mythology, which were used extensively in the decoration of seventeenth century Chinese porcelain. Purchased from Geoffrey Waters Antique Chinese Porcelain, London, October 2003.