A Set of Four Chinese Kangxi Blue and White Bowls with Landscape

Kangxi period (1662-1722), porcelain hand-painted in underglaze blue, each bowl with a picturesque riverside landscape to the center well surrounded by shaped petal reserves alternating between riverside landscape scenes and flowers, the exterior sides painted loosely with a plum branch, underside of each with flower mark within two blue circles.

Each 1 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. diameter

From the collection of Alice Sophie Everts (von Groening) (1890-1990) and husband Dirk Everts (1890-1928), and by family descent
Acquired in the 1920s by Dirk Everts while in the service of the Dutch government in Hong Kong. The collection was subsequently brought to the Netherlands, where it remained in the Everts family and survived the years of Nazi occupation. Thence by family descent.

One with nick to rim and hairline to underside; one with small nick to underside rim; one with a few scattered fleabites to rim; and one with break and repair to rim, hairlines to rim, and two holes drilled to rim for display.