Lot 695. A famille-verte 'Boys' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's.  

the cylindrical body elegantly painted with boys at play, one with hands clasped over the eyes of a playmate, observed by an older boy wearing an official's robe and clasping a ruyi scepter, a small boy crouching over in laughter, as another, bearing a lotus blossom on a stick, happily tickles the central figure with a twig, all set between a band of lappets encircling the base and an elaborate cloud collar enclosing crane medallions, florets and leafing fruit on a pale-green stippled ground, the shoulder with stylized chrysanthemum reserved on a diaper ground, the slender neck with a raised chevron filet, repeated at the rim. Height 18 in., 45.7 cm

Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Michael B. Weisbrod Inc., New York. 

Exhibited: Children in Chinese Art, China Institute, New York, 1991.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art New York, 15 Mar 2017