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.

Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2000.

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