A blue-glazed and slip-decorated ewer, Late Ming dynasty. Estimation 7,000 — 9,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the flattened pear-shaped body rising to a long neck and everted galleried mouth, a high arched handle to one side and a tall gently curving spout to the other connected to the body by an S-form strut, applied all over with a rich cobalt blue glaze and decorated in white slip to either side with a qilin enclosed with an outline to the molded peach-form panel and a stylized trefoil cloud to the neck. Height 8 in., 20.3 cm

Provenance: Acquired in the 1970s and 80s.  

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 15 sept. 2015