A small doucai'Scholar and geese' cup , Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Photo Sotheby's
delicately potted with a slightly everted rim, the exterior painted with a continuous scene depicting Wang Xizhi, wearing red and yellow robes sitting under a willow tree overhanging a river, gazing at red, yellow and aubergine geese in the water, apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double square. Diameter 2 1/2 in., 6.3 cm. Estimation 15,000 — 20,000. Lot vendu: 68,500 USD
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 14th November 1989, lot 221
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