modeled 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

Ralph M. Chait，紐約

There is an approx. 5.5-cm hairline crack across the underside and proper left side of the base, an approx. 4-cm hairline crack to the side and back of the 'grotto', and short hairline cracks to the back. There are losses to the flowers and scattered minute nicks. Minor manufacturing imperfections include an approx. 6-mm hole to the back due to a firing tear. An old label is applied to the underside.
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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.