, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi, depicting Wang Chi and two men playing Weiqi chess, known as 'go' to the Japanese, before a rocky grotto, 9.5cm high (2)
Provenance: From a Noble English family, prior to 1921
清康熙 德化人物弈棋图两组
拍品来源:英国显赫贵族收藏,购自1921年前
Condition Report:
both with firing cracks
one group with 6mmx 6mm hole (which may be in the firing?) extending to side extending into a star crack approximately 4cm x 3cm and one firing crack to the base extending into a scale chip on exterior of base and also another hole to top of grotto but probably in the firing
The other group with one flower with two chips to right top of grotto and otherwise firing cracks to base with one extending into a hair crack but this is also in the firing
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