W:19.8cmA Blue and White Bowl with Scholars, Kangxi six character mark and of the periodwith rounded sides beneath the everted rim, the exterior well painted in strong blue, with groups of scholars admiring a scroll, watching their friends playing weiqi, and listening to the qin, all among bamboo, pine trees, rocks and mists, beneath cell diaper and foliate reserve borders on the rimA 8cm hairline from the mouth rim and a 7cm crack on the lower body. Two chips on the mouth rim.A Kangxi mark and period bowl with the same form and decoration, given to the museum in the bequest of the widow of H.K.Westendorp in 1968, is included as cat.no.97 in Christiaan Jorg, 'Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam', London 1997