Lot 1384. A pair of blue and white bowls, Kangxi six-character marks in underglaze blue within double circles and of the period (1662-1722); 6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 18,000 - USD 25,000. Price realised USD 40,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2013. 

Each has deep, rounded sides that rise to a slightly everted rim, and is painted on the exterior with a frieze of leafy meander bearing six blossoms above a petal-lappet band, and on the interior with a single flower spray within a central roundel.

Provenance: Imperial Oriental Art, New York, December 2002.

Note: A pair of similar Kangxi-marked bowls was sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2003, lot 318, and an almost identical bowl, in the National Palace Museum, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Book 1, Hong Kong, 1968, pp.56-7, col. pls. 12, 12a, and 12b.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 - 20 September 2013