Four Chinese blue and white 'figural' bowls

The group comprises: a bowl decorated with two ladies and a boy, the cover with a scene from the Romance of the Western Chamber (Xixiang ji), and a further bowl with a scholar and lady playing the qin, all three decorated with a boy to the interior, and marked with the with the biding ruyi (brush, ingot, ruyi) mark; a ‘foreigners tribute’ bowl, the interior decorated with a dragon roundel, the base with a stylised mark; and a foliate basin decorated with the Eight Immortals and highlights in underglaze copper red.

The bowl and cover: 17.5 cm. diam x 13.2 cm. high (overall) The bowl with the scholar and lady: 9.2 cm. high x 20 cm. diam. The ‘foreigners tribute’ bowl: 9.5 cm. high x 21.2 cm. diam. The foliate basin: 8.2 cm. high x 26 cm. wide