A large blue and white storage jar, guan. Wanli © 2002-2010 Bonhams 1793 Ltd

The broad body divided into six vertical panels by shallow grooves, each panel containing a lobed cartouche of birds including hawks, geese and song birds, all reserved on a trellis ground beneath similar small oval fruit and flower cartouches on the shoulder and neck.
34cm (13½in) high. Sold for £6,000

A large blue and white jar, guan. Wanli © 2002-2010 Bonhams 1793 Ltd

Moulded and painted in a very similar manner to the preceding jar, two of the upright cartouches depicting a deer standing on a terrace; 34cm (13½in) high. Estimate: £6,000 - 10,000, HK$ 74,000 - 120,000, USD 9,500 - 16,000. Unsold

Bonhams. Fine Chinese Art, 11 Nov 2010. New Bond Street  www.bonhams.com