A wucai sleeve vase, Transitional period, ca. 1650; 14in. (35.4cm.) high. Lot 303. Estimate $2,000 - $3,000. Price Realized $3,824. © Christie's 2003

The tall, slightly tapering sides vigorously painted with a dense allover design of infant boys climbing the scrolling stems of flowering peonies -  

Provenance: Sotheby's, New York, 12 - 13 October 1984, lot 304.

Christie's. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 September 2003, New York, Rockefeller Plaza