Six Chinese blue and white bowls

The group comprises: a lobed bowl decorated with the Eight Immortals, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark; two bowls decorated with a scene from the Romance of the Western Chamber; a ‘klapmuts’ bowl decorated with ladies and a scholar, the base with a ‘qizhen ruyu’ mark; a bowl decorated with scholars, the base with an apocryphal Chenghua mark; and a small foliate bowl decorated with birds, the base with a ‘ji’ (luck) mark within a double circle.

The ‘Eight Immortals’ bowl: 16 cm. diam. The small ‘Romance of the Western Chamber’ bowl: 15.1 cm. diam. The large ‘Romance of the Western Chamber’ bowl: 19.2 cm. diam. The ‘ladies and scholar’ klapmuts bowl: 16.1 cm. diam. The ‘scholars’ bowl: 19.5 cm. diam. The ‘birds’ bowl: 11.2 cm. diam.