Lot 631. A blue and white 'Crane' jar and a pair of blue and white 'Lotus' dishes, Ming Dynasty, 16th-17th century; 16 and 5.3 cm., 6 1/4 and 2 1/8 in. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 47,500 HKD (6,127 USD). Photo Sotheby's

the jar with a cylindrical body tapering slightly below the incurved rim and around the foot, moulded with three animal masks in relief, the body freely painted with three rounded frames, each enclosing an outstretched crane soaring amidst ruyi-shaped clouds, the frames interrupted by ruyi heads joined by a vertical strap and reserved on a dark blue ground figured with Leiwen, all below a band of cartouches enclosing auspicious items and a border of vertical lines around the rim; the dishes, freely painted on the interior with a lotus pond enclosed within a serrated border encircling the rim

Property from the Baoyizhai Collection.

Sotheby's. Playthings From The Collection of Edward T. Chow Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Collections Chinese Art Through the Eye of Sakamoto Gor - Asian Lacquer, Hong Kong, 27 may 2014