A BLUE AND WHITE 'ROMANCE OF THE WESTERN CHAMBER' BOWL QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD

the exterior painted in various blue tones with a scene of Sun Feihu besieging the monastery with a gang of bandits, and the subsequent scene of the young scholar Zhang Sheng and attendant monks seeing off the bare-chested Huiming as he departs to join General Du in their defense, the interior centered with a medallion enclosing three boys playing in a garden, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
Diameter 6 1/4 in., 15.9 cm