Lot 3162. A blue and white 'boys' jar, Mark and period of Jiajing (1522-1566); 32.5 cm., 12 3/4 in. Estimate 400,000-600,000 HKD (39,143 — 58,715   EUR). Lot sold 3,620,000 HKD (354,246 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

the robustly potted body with broad shoulders decorated with a continuous scene of boys at play in a garden landscape, a couple depicted riding with a hobby horse, while others tease crickets and play with a puppet, between lotus scrolls at the shoulders and foot, beneath a short cylindrical mouth collared by a band of interlocking ruyi heads, the slightly recessed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within double circles

 Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. Hong Kong | 04 avr. 2012