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Catalogue number: 2855
China, a copper-red-decorated powder-blue 'monk' saucer, Qing dynasty (1644-1912),
painted after the Kangxi example with a figure of a fighting monk, reserved on a mottled powder-blue ground, the reverse with apocryphal Ming mark
diam. 15 cm
Compare a similar larger plate in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, inv. nr. AK-RBK 15847, where the figure is identified as a character from the tale 'Shuihu zhuan' which tells about various dubious figures, including the fighting monks. The current figure may be identified as the monk Hua, who is a master of stickfighting.
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Hammer price: € 440
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