Lot 892. A pair of wucai 'hundred boys' jars and covers, 17th century. Height 15 3/8  in., 40 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 10,625 USD. © Sotheby's

each of baluster form rising from a flat base to a slightly waisted neck, one jar decorated with children engaged in playful activities including playing weiqi and the qin, lighting firecrackers, impersonating officials, and riding a wooden horse, the other depicting children enjoying paintings, playing hide and seek, and impersonating opera singers, both below borders of 'cracked ice', further boys to the neck, each of the domed covers similarly painted and surmounted by a lotus bud finial (4).

California Straight Ahead: Property from the Collection of Dr. David Sanders and Prof. Jesse Dukeminie.

Provenance: Chinese Porcelain Company, New York, 2nd December, 1996. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 11 September 2019