Lot 661. Two blue and white 'Scholar' dishes, late Ming-Early Qing dynasty, 17th century. Estimate 2,500 — 3,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

each with shallow, rounded sides, painted with a central medallion enclosing a sage in a landscape with an overhanging pine tree and rocks in the foreground, a diaper pattern encircling the rim, the undersides with birds perched on fruiting peach branches, the base with an apocryphal Zhengde mark (2). Diameter 5 in., 12.7 cm 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th May 1977, lot 78.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 24th November 1981, lot 109.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 14 Mar 2017, 10:30 AM