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)

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.
11 ¼ in. (28.5 cm.) high

Provenance

John Wanamaker (1838-1922) Collection.
Mary Brown Wanamaker Warburton (1869-1954) Collection.
C. Egerton Warburton (1902-1973), and thence by descent.

THE PROPERTY OF A NEW ENGLAND COLLECTOR