Lot 8. A Ming blue and white 'Lotus' jar, Ming dynasty, 15th-16th century. Height 5 1/4 in., 13.3 cm. Estimate 3,000 — 5,000 USD. Lot sold 80,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the high shouldered body painted around the center with scrolling lotus blossoms growing on undulating stems issuing curled leaves between double-line borders, below a border of interlocking scrolls and flower-heads at the shoulder, all above a band of upright lotus panels at the foot. 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw.

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 426.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012