The cylindrical body painted in soft blue tones with a continuous scene of boys playing various games in a balustrade garden beneath scrolling clouds on the shoulders of the vase, rising to a tall ribbed neck painted with bamboo branches. The base is painted with a leaf mark within a double circle in underglaze blue.
Rouleau vases of this size depicting playing boys in a garden scene are rare. This theme of several boys playing together (‘yingxi tu’) carries an auspicious wish for many sons, as illustrated in Terese Tse Bartholomew, ‘Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art’, San Francisco, 2006, p. 63. This scene was first depicted on stoneware from the late 8th-early 9th century, but is more commonly seen on blue and white bowls from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
A blue and white ‘boys’ rouleau vase (Kangxi period, 1662-1722)
£ 36,000.00
Description
清 康熙 1662–1722 青花婴戏图棒槌瓶
Dimensions: 25.5cm high
Provenance:
– A private English collection
The cylindrical body painted in soft blue tones with a continuous scene of boys playing various games in a balustrade garden beneath scrolling clouds on the shoulders of the vase, rising to a tall ribbed neck painted with bamboo branches. The base is painted with a leaf mark within a double circle in underglaze blue.
Rouleau vases of this size depicting playing boys in a garden scene are rare. This theme of several boys playing together (‘yingxi tu’) carries an auspicious wish for many sons, as illustrated in Terese Tse Bartholomew, ‘Hidden Meanings in Chinese Art’, San Francisco, 2006, p. 63. This scene was first depicted on stoneware from the late 8th-early 9th century, but is more commonly seen on blue and white bowls from the Ming and Qing dynasties.
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