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CALIFORNIA STRAIGHT AHEAD: PROPERTY FROM 十七世紀 五彩百子圖蓋罐一對
THE COLLECTION OF DR. DAVID SANDERS AND
PROF. JESSE DUKEMINIER
來源
A PAIR OF WUCAI ‘HUNDRED BOYS’ Chinese Porcelain Company，紐約，1996年
JARS AND COVERS 12月2日
17TH CENTURY
each of baluster form rising from a flat base
to a slightly waisted neck, one jar decorated
with children engaged in playful activities
including playing weiqi and the qin, lighting
firecrackers, impersonating officials, and
riding a wooden horse, the other depicting
children enjoying paintings, playing hide and
seek, and impersonating opera singers, both
below borders of ‘cracked ice’, further boys to
the neck, each of the domed covers similarly
painted and surmounted by a lotus bud finial
(4)
Height 15⅜ in., 40 cm
PROVENANCE
Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 2nd
December, 1996.
$ 15,000-25,000

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