Lot 261. A small wucai dish, Wanli mark and period (1573-1620). Diameter 4 7/8 in., 12.6 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. Photo Sotheby's

colorfully painted in the central medallion with two figures in a landscape, each carrying a lantern, encircled by a band of scrolling chrysanthemum within the cavetto, the blossoms  in varying colors of underglaze blue, iron red, yellow and aubergine enamels, the underside with auspicious emblems alternating with canopied symbols, six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle. 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th November 1985, lot 42, and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012