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5 septembre 2016

A 'Dehua' model of weiqi players in a grotto, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

A 'Dehua' model of weiqi players in a grotto, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Lot 302. A 'Dehua' model of weiqi players in a grotto, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's

modeled to depict the scene of Wang Zhi and the two weiqi players, the woodcutter standing over the gamesboard with two players seated on either side, the figures backed by a gnarled flowering tree - Height 4 in., 10.2 cm

From the Collection of Richard Lehman Gray

Provenance: Ralph M. Chait, New York.

Note: See a closely related example in the Hickley Collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua, Chicago, 2002, pl. 35; and two similar examples but lacking blossoms, one in the collection of Dr. C.M. Franzero, illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 105B; the other in Robert H. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua, Berkeley, 2002, pl. 86C..

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 13 sept. 2016, 10:30 AM

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