The deep body is decorated to the fluted sides with a continuous scene of the 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove' engaged in various leisurely pursuits including playing a game of weiqi, surrounded by bamboo. The interior roundel is painted with two boys at play surrounded by petal-shaped panels enclosing buddhist emblems. The base has an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
8 ⅛ in. (21 cm.) diam.

From a private collection in the UK, acquired in London in the 1980s-1990s

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The 'Seven Sages of the Bamboo Groove' were a group of 3rd century scholars who rejected official duties in favour of rustic life, and often gathered in a bamboo groove to drink wine and to discuss art and literature.