£30
A Chinese blue and white 'hundred boys' dish, 18th century Decorated with playing boys, the rim with ten bats. 24cm dia. (repair to rim) Property of a private London collector. Footnote:The decorative motif of playing boys is attributed to the legend of Zhou Wen Wang (1152–1056 BC), founder of the Zhou Dynasty, who is said to have fathered 99 children and adopted a hundredth.
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