Lot 496. A pair of blue and white bowls, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795);  19cm., 7 1/2 in. Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 GBP. Lot sold 25,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's 

each with deep rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to an everted rim, painted to the interior in dark cobalt-blue tones with a Three Friends of Winter medallion, the exterior with a continuous landscape depicting three scholars and their two attendants carrying a qin towards a cloud-shrouded pavilion, inscribed with a six-character seal mark to the base. 

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, London, 7 November 2012