A PAIR OF WUCAI 'BOY AND PEONY' JARS AND COVERS

17TH CENTURY

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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 finial.
14 in. (35.5 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

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.

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