Lot 180. A Chinese blue and white bowl with four depictions of Lady Ma, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Est: £300–500. Sold for £600. Photo Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions
Ma Gu Xian Shou with a basket of herbs and flowers in a basket held on a stick over her shoulder and arranged around a raised central boss surrounded by some of the eight precious things, the semi-biscuit outer border carved in a variation of the pierced Linglong technique, with four sprays of flowers below, 19cm diameter; 7,mm x 5mm shallow rim chip and the foot rim with 2.5cm haircrack and small chip issuing from the haircrack.
Provenance: Inherited by the present owner form a collection formed before 1950.
For a Kangxi blue and white porcelain bowl of this pattern see, Pronken Met Oosters Porselein , Stephen Hartog, Uitgeverij Waaders b.v. 1990, page 67, plate 49 and another is illustrated, The Blue and White Porcelain of China, Brian S McEney, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Canada, 1992, page 94, plate 88.
Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art, Tuesday 17 May 2016