Lot 203. A blue and white 'Wang Xizhi and goose' cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 7.8 cm, 3 1/16  in. Estimate: £3,000 - £5,000. Lot Sold: £20,000. © Sotheby's

delicately potted of deep U-shape with flared rim and a short foot, finely painted on the exterior with a continuous scene of the scholar Wang Xizhi admiring a stream of floating geese beneath a large willow tree, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a double square.

Note: Compare a pair of doucai bowls painted with Zhang Qian, included in the Kau Chi Society exhibition Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, p. 150. 

Sotheby's. St George Street Sale: Chinese Art, London, 10 November 2017