A large blue and white dish. Ming Dynasty, circa 1600. Photo: Sotheby's.

the deep rounded sides resting on a tapering foot, painted to the interior with a central medallion enclosing three scholars engaged in a game of weiqi in a river landscape with a waterfall and distant pavilions, accompanied by a young attendant carrying a tray, the well with twelve radiating petal-shaped panels of seated scholars alternating with landscape scenes, painted to the exterior with gnarled tree branches extending from the rim; 45.7cm., 18in. Lot 97. Estimation 5,000-7,000 GBP. Unsold

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. Londres | 16 mai 2012. www.sothebys.com