Kangxi With deep rounded sides rising to a broad everted rim, the well brightly enamelled with two elegant court ladies dressed in long flowing robes seated at a table with books and a fan, each holding arrows to throw at a touhu, all within a terraced garden setting with bamboo and taihu rocks, the rim decorated with meandering floral scroll, the exterior with a trellis border of foliage and flowers. 38.4cm (15 1/8in) diam.Footnotes清康熙 五彩二喬投壺折沿洗 Provenance: W. Waddingham, 1971 來源：1971年，W.Waddingham收藏 It is very rare to find the scene of two ladies playing touhu on porcelains, as the game was predominantly played by men in ancient China. The 'two ladies' theme in many cases refers to the story of two beauties during the Three Kingdoms period, Daqiao and Xiaoqiao, who are usually depicted as reading together in later Chinese decorative art. Compare with one of the two famille verte dishes decorated with two related ladies, Kangxi, sold in Christie's London, 12 May 2017, lot 440. 盤折沿，沿繪紅彩連枝番蓮及綠彩卷草紋為地，盤心繪二仕女高髻花髮，坐於方桌，手持兩箭作投壺姿勢，面前繪一金彩投壺，壺投中一箭，地上散落三枝，花園中有竹石樹木，正上方繪流雲滿月，盤外壁纏枝蓮紋，花紅葉綠，底部上收成圈足，圈足露胎，質地細密。 瓷器上極少見到二女投壺的畫面，蓋投壺多為男性所好。裝飾中二女形象多指代三國時二喬的典故，且多為二喬讀書圖。可參考一件相關的康熙五彩二喬讀書盤，2017年5月12日售於倫敦佳士得，拍品編號440。