Lot 41. A Blue and White 'Hundred Boys' Box and Cover. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period (1662-1722);  24.8cm., 9 3/4 in. Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 GBP. Lot sold 17,500 GBP. Photo Sotheby's

of circular form, the domed cover painted in cobalt-blue with boys at play, the box similarly painted, the interior with a carp leaping out from cresting waves, surrounded by a band of scattered prunus florets on an ice-crackle ground. Quantité: 2.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1986, lot 63.

Exhibited: From the Tang to the Qing: Chinese Ceramics from circa 618-1850 A.D. from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Peter Thompson, Hull University, Hull, 1996, cat. no. 97.

Sotheby's. Chinese Ceramics from the Collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson. London, 07 nov. 2012