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A Dehua model of weiqi players in a grotto, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period, modelled to depict the scene of Wang Zhi and the two weiqi players, the woodcutter standing over the gamesboard with two players seated on either side, the figures backed by a gnarled flowering tree, 10.5 cm high
Provenance: The Property of a Lady purchased in the 1950's or 1960's form the London trade.
See a closely related example in the Hickley Collection, illustrated in Rose Kerr and John Ayers, Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua , Chicago, 2002, pl. 35; and two similar examples but lacking blossoms, one in the collection of Dr. C.M. Franzero, illustrated by P.J. Donnelly, Blanc de Chine, London, 1969, pl. 105B; the other in Robert H. Blumenfield, Blanc de Chine: The Great Porcelain of Dehua , Berkeley, 2002, pl. 86C.
