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A Chinese Blue and White Jar, late Ming period (16th century)], the ovoid body painted with an e...

Currency:GBP Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:1,000.00 - 1,500.00 GBP
A Chinese Blue and White Jar, late Ming period (16th century)], the ovoid body painted with an e...
A Chinese Blue and White Jar, late Ming period (16th century)], the ovoid body painted with an exuberant wawa scene of boys crowding a garden beneath the Three Friends of Winter, some seated, some playing individually, flying kites, toying with puppets, dragonflies, tops, or cavorting in groups, marching, chasing, some bathing a victim, other generally disporting themselves as adults, {26.0cm} (lacking base, rim reduced, both ground) {See illustration £1000-1500
*Lively images of children at play were particularly popular on Chinese ceramics of the 16th and 17th centuries. They continued into the ensuing Qing dynasty, with its compartmentalisation of designs for a growing export market, ultimately giving rise to the "jumping Boy" patterns seen on many early English porcelain factories of the mid 18th century
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