A FAMILLE-VERTE 'PLAYFUL-BOYS' ROUNDED JAR
Kangxi period
With widely rounded sides and incurving rim, painted in a continuous scene with a procession of boys dancing, walking and running, some holding parasols, some banners and others clutching floral sprays and leaves, one child riding a 'hobby-horse' and others at the tail of the procession rolling a boy on the ground, the head of the procession with a boy climbing on to a large fish bowl, the garden terrace scene divided on one side by rockwork and plantain, the rim banded with lotus reserves on a floral green ground, and partially unglazed concave foot with a white-glazed countersunk center.
9 1/16in (23cm) across; 5 11/16in (14.4cm) diam of mouth; 6 1/2in (41.9cm) high
Footnotes:
清康熙時期 五彩嬰戲圖罐

Provenance:
Ralph M. Chait Galleries Inc., New York, 19 January 2002
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph H. Hennage, Williamsburg, Virginia
The Colonial Williamsburg Museum, 2002 to the present

來源：
紐約Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc.古董行，2002年1月19日
Joseph H. Hennage伉儷舊藏，弗吉尼亞州威廉斯堡
威廉斯堡殖民博物館，2002年至今

For a slightly earlier similarly-sized rounded jar dated to the mid 17th century and painted with figures in a landscape, see Julia B. Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, China Institute Gallery, New York, 1995, pp.146-147, no. 62.