Lot 219. A blue and white jar and cover, Ming Dynasty, Chongzheng period (1628-1644); 11.5cm., 4 1/2 in. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 21,250 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the compressed globular body rising from a slightly tapered foot, to a short tapering rim, painted on the exterior with an immortal reclining on cragged rocks near a recumbent deer below a band of incised foliage at the shoulder, the domed cover with a scholar looking up at the moon and circled by a similar band of incised foliage.

Provenance: Collection of Dr Ip Yee.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th November 1984, lot 200.

Exhibited: Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners,  Oriental Ceramics Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat. no. 78.
Min Chiu Society Exhibition (according to paper label). 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 11 november 2015