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THE PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTOR
1616
A VERY RARE PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'BOYS' JARS AND
COVERS
QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE
BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)
Each jar is finely decorated around the sides with a scene of boys at
play: one boy riding a hobby horse, another seated on the shoulders of
an older boy, others playing instruments, carrying banners or plantain
leaves, all shown in a procession on a garden terrace below multi-
colored clouds and between a band of key fret encircling the foot and
a band of iron-red bats in flight amidst blue clouds on the neck. The
domed cover is similarly decorated with a corner of the terrace below
the knob handle decorated in iron red.
11º in. (28.5 cm.) high (2)

$800,000-1,200,000
PROVENANCE:
John Wanamaker (1838-1922) Collection.
Mary Brown Wanamaker Warburton (1869-1954) Collection.
C. Egerton Warburton (1902-1973), and thence by descent.

清乾隆 粉彩嬰戲圖壯罐一對 六字篆書款

(marks)

Fig. 1 Famille Rose ‘Boys’ Jar, Qianlong seal mark and
of the period (1735-1736). Sold Christie’s Hong Kong,
158 31 May 2017, lot 3030.