the pear-shaped body supported on a stepped foot and rising to bulbous mouth with an upright rim, covered overall in a lustrous milky-green celadon glaze, and decorated in relief with white slip painted in underglaze blue with a herd boy riding a water buffalo through a landscape, the seated child engrossed in a book, oblivious to the leafing willow trees overhead and craggy rocks along the ground, the interior and base glazed white, coll. no. 232.

The Jie Rui Tang Collection.

ProvenanceBerwald Oriental Art, London, 2000.

Sotheby's. KANGXI: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, New York, 20 March 2018, 11:00 AM