each with a high rounded shoulder tapering to a narrow foot and surmounted by a short waisted neck and everted rim, boldly painted with a scholar standing on a rocky ledge beneath a willow tree, approached by an attendant carrying a wrapped qin, the scene divided by scrolling clouds, all above a broad band of stylized lappets at the foot, the shoulder encircled by a collar of lobed cartouches enclosing lotus blossoms amidst dense foliage and a ruyi band, with scattered cloud scrolls to the neck (2). 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th-16th November 1988, lot 125. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 12 sept. 2018, 10:30 AM