Artist: Unknown; Date(s): circa 1573 - 1619; Classification(s): porcelain, jar, throwing, hard paste porcelain painted in the `five colour' palette, green, iron-red, black, yellow, aubergine enamels with underglaze-blue (wucai decoration); Acquisition: bequeathed by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio, 1950, Bequeathed by H.S. Reitlinger, 1950; transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991. [C.652 & A-1991]
Description: Jar with cover. Hard-paste porcelain painted in the `five colour' palette, green, iron-red, black, yellow, aubergine enamels with underglaze-blue (wucai decoration). The shouldered baluster vase tapers towards the flat, unglazed base with incised groove circling above it. The sides are decorated with children at play: `the hundred boys' pattern. A border of boys playing decorates the neck, beneath which is a crackle border in underglaze-blue around the shoulders. The cover is similarly decorated with boys at play and a yellow flower painted on the knop.
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