A LARGE FAMILLE-VERTE DEEP ROUNDED 'WARRIOR AND PRESENTATION' BOWL
Kangxi period
The exterior painted in rich enamels in a continuous scene with a group of brightly-robed soldiers in a rocky garden landscape carrying banners, spears and swords and led by a warrior on horseback approaching a supplicant kneeling figure with arms reaching forward and hands held together, before the figure are two male attendants making offerings of rice and a leg of pork, the center of the interior with three boys and an elegant lady before an altar table, one boy lighting a cracker, and each of the boys covering their ears for protection from the explosion, the lady also cupping one of the boys ears, the well plain and a wide band below the rim of six alternate cartouches of flowers on various diaper cell grounds.
12 3/16in (31cm) diam; 6 1/16in (15.4cm) high
Footnotes:
清康熙時期 五彩人物紋大盌

Provenance:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries inc., New York, 19 January 2002, no. 18166
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage, Williamsburg, Virginia,
The Colonial Williamsburg Museum, 2002 to the present

來源：
紐約Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.古董行，2002年1月19日，編號18166
Joseph H. Hennage伉儷舊藏，弗吉尼亞州威廉斯堡
威廉斯堡殖民博物館，2002年至今

For a similar-sized bowl painted with scenes of warriors on horseback, see Bonhams London, 8 November 2018, Lot 135.