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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. AND
MRS. GREGORY F. SULLIVAN
A WUCAI ‘BOYS’ JAR AND A COVER
17TH CENTURY
the broad body rising from a subtly waisted foot
to a rounded shoulder and short neck, painted
all around in famille-verte enamels with boys
engaging in scholarly activities such as reading,
studying paintings, examining ancient bronze
ritual vessels, and playing weiqi and the qin,
all amidst a landscape of green bushes and
underglaze-blue rockwork, the motif repeated
at the neck and the domed cover, the cover
surmounted by a bud-form knop (2)
Height 12⅞ in., 32.7 cm
PROVENANCE
Marchant, London.
$ 10,000-15,000

十七世紀 五彩嬰戲圖罐配蓋

來源
Marchant，倫敦
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PROPERTY FROM A CANADIAN PRIVATE
COLLECTION
A WUCAI ‘HUNDRED BOYS’ JAR
QING DYNASTY, SHUNZHI PERIOD
the baluster body surmounted by a straight
neck and subtly lipped rim, vibrantly painted
with a continuous scene of playful boys within
a balustraded garden, engaged in a variety
of activities, including the ‘Four Scholarly
Accomplishments’, the shoulder with a ‘cracked
ice’ pattern below a band of further boys and
rockwork at the neck, the base unglazed
Height 12¾ in., 32.3 cm
PROVENANCE
Acquired between 1960s-1980s, and thence by
descent.

$ 10,000-15,000

清順治 五彩百子圖罐

來源
購於1960至1980年代之間，此後家族傳承

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