A fine blue and white 'boys' bowl Mark and period of Jiajing

well painted in varying tones of underglaze-blue to the exterior with a continuous scene of sixteen boys at play within a garden setting, divided into groups of four by a twisting low wall, their details delicately picked out, between a double line border at the rim and a triple-line border at the foot, the interior with a central medallion containing a crested waves crashing against a jutting rock below clouds and the moon above within a double line border repeated at the rim