题识:双圈六字楷书款 拍品描述:拍品专文：The depiction of children at play is a visually pleasing, auspicious subject matter that was popular in Chinese art during the Ming dynasty. The subject has its roots in Buddhist beliefs, influenced by Daoism, but by the Tang dynasty (AD 618-907) had become a secular theme associated with the auspicious wish for sons and grandsons. One boy on this dish is depicted holding a lotus stem and this may be a rebus or visual pun. The word for lotus in Chinese is lian which is a homophone for a word meaning continuous or successive, and when combined with a boy suggests the successive birth of sons and grandsons. While boys at play was a favorite subject during the Ming dynasty, the charming scene on the present dish, sometimes referred to as 'blind man's bluff', is rare. A pair of dishes with the same scene is illustrated by B. McElney in The Museum of East Asian Art Inaugural Exhibition, Volume I, Chinese Ceramics, Bath, 1993, p. 204, no. 157. 来源：京都私人珍藏, 大多入藏于十八世纪 The Peony Pavilion Collection; 伦敦佳士得, 1989年6月12日, 拍品编号285 何昌炽, Oriental Art, 悉尼 阿姆斯特丹苏富比, 2000年11月28日, 拍品编号353 伦敦Ben Janssens Oriental Art, 2002年3月20日 日内瓦艾尔伯‧梵达伦及莉奥妮‧梵达伦伉俪珍藏 伦敦佳士得, 2019年11月5日, 拍品编号26