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A MAGNIFICENT AND IMPORTANT BLUE AND WHITE 'BOYS' JAR AND COVER Jiajing six-character mark and of the period Painted in extremely vibrant, dark, violet tones of underglaze cobalt blue with a wide central register to the baluster body, depicting a continuous terraced garden scene with sixteen boys at play amidst plantain, palm and pine, under gentle billowy clouds with distant peaks, set between a band of lotus petal lappets at the foot and a wan-cell band with four alternate fruit and flower ogival cartouches dividing four auspicious emblems, an ingot, a coin or cash symbol, paired rhino horns and a coral branch, to the high, rounded shoulder, all below a slightly tapering and waisted plain neck with two encircling lines at the rounded rim, the rare domed cover surmounted by a bud-shaped finial with cash symbols and scroll work to the tip above upright lotus petals that rise from encircling lines and a band of classic scroll, the finial rising from eight radiating lotus petals to the domed cover above alternate peach and lingzhi sprays divided by cloud motifs on the upright sides, the cover interior with an orange-fired biscuit rim and white-glazed interior, the base with a wide unglazed rounded foot ring and a glazed center that is concave at the edges and convex at the six-character mark at the center. Jar and cover: 18 1/2in (47cm) overall high Jar only: 13 3/8in (34cm) high and 15 1/2in (39.3cm) diam, across the body Jar mouth: 9 3/8in (24cm), diam Foot: 10 1/4in (26cm) diam Cover: 10 3/4in (27.4cm) diam (fitted box).