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A PAIR OF WUCAI ‘BOY AND PEONY’ JARS AND COVERS
17TH CENTURY
The vases are each decorated with three boys clambering on dense scrolling
iron-red peonies with the leaves executed in underglaze blue and black-
outlined green enamels. Each shoulder is decorated with a cracked-ice pattern
below a lotus band to the neck. Each domed cover is similarly decorated with
scrolling peonies and surmounted by a lotus bud fnial.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high
(2)
£10,000-15,000 $15,000-21,000
€12,000-17,000
Compare a single similar jar and cover illustrated in Michael Butler, Julia
Curtis and Stephen Little, Shunzhi Porcelain: Treasures from an Unknown
Reign, pp. 102-103, pl. 10. A sleeve vase with the same ‘boy and peony’ design
was sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2003, lot 303.
明末清初 五彩嬰戲圖蓋罐一對 (2)
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