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A WUCAI ‘BOYS’ JAR AND COVER
SHUNZHI PERIOD (1644-1661)
The vase is decorated with boys clambering on dense scrolling peonies, with
the leaves executed in underglaze blue and black-outlined green enamels. The
shoulder is decorated with a key-fret band below a band of fower and rocks on
the neck. The domed cover is decorated with boys in a terraced garden.
14æ in. (38 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$15,000-25,000
PROVENANCE
Kochukyo, Tokyo, 1977.
清順治 五彩嬰戲紋蓋罐
(another view with box)
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