A blue and white ovoid jar. Ming Dynasty. Photo: Sotheby's.

the body painted with a broad central band depicting an official carrying a portrait scroll and matching it for likeness to a bearded farmer standing in front of him, surrounded by other farmers at work in sheds and armed soldiers with horses, all above a band of horses galloping on cresting waves amidst cloud and flame wisps, the shoulder with cranes in flight amongst radiating cloud scrolls below a ruyi band, the tapering neck with a foliate scroll, all separated by line borders; 31cm., 12 1/4 in. Lot 998. Estimation 30,000-50,000 GBP. Unsold

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