A blue and white jardinière, Circa 1640. Photo courtesy Bonhams

Painted around the exterior with a sage riding a donkey with a smiling boy aside approaching a bridge, followed by three attendants carrying his personal belongings, the other side with a man accompanied by his attendant standing on a rocky outcrop, all amidst a mountainous landscape. 21.8cm (8½in) diam. Sold for £35,000 (€41,761)

Compare a related blue and white jardinière or kang in the Shanghai Museum, dated to the Chongzhen period and illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty's Enchantment, Shanghai, 2005, p.110, no.23.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street. 7 Nov 2013