A BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN KLAPMUTS BOWL, KANGXI China, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Painted to the exterior with a continuous scene of a dignitary and ladies in a palace setting, the interior roundel decorated with three boys at play, below a diaper-pattern rim reserved with four floral cartouches, the recessed base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark within a double circle. Condition: Overall good condition with minor wear and firing irregularities, some fritting to the rim, minor old restoration to the foot and rim. Provenance: From an old family collection in Pressburg, Austrian Empire, Slovakia, and thence by descent to the present owner. Weight: 222 g Dimensions: Diameter 15.8 cm Auction comparison: Compare a related but slightly larger klapmuts bowl at Christie's Amsterdam in European Noble and Private Collections on 16 December 2009, lot 143, sold for EUR 2,375.