A blue and white bowl. Bearing a six character Chenghua mark but Transitional. Photo Bonhams.

Painted to one side with two maidens and a boy walking in a fenced garden, the reverse with bamboo growing either side of a table beside rockwork, the interior with a central medallion depicting a mountainous landscape, the rim bound in metal, 14.2cm diameter. Sold for £1,750 (€2,207)

Provenance: Sotheby's, 18 April 1978, lot 134
The Fiorentini Collection, no.AC38

This and the following thirty lots are offered for sale by the executors of the estate of Ruth Fiorentini. She and her late husband ran an advertising agency in London's West End with Cartier among their clients. They spent much of their spare time attending auctions from the post war period through to the 1980s with Chinese porcelain becoming their main interest. They also befriended and purchased pieces from the well known collector E.G.Kostolany.