A Set of Eight Chinese Kangxi Blue and White Bowls

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

Each 1 1/2 x 6 3/8 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.

A few with fleabites to rims; one with hairlines to underside and rim; another fitted with holes to rim for display.