Lot 117. A blue and white baluster jar and cover, Ming dynasty, Wanli period (1573-1620). Height 16 in., 40.5 cm. Estimate 5,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 6,250 USD. © Sotheby's.

painted in a deep tone of underglaze blue with a frieze of peony scrolls above a border of horses galloping over waves, the short neck with the 'Eight Buddhist Emblems' above a wan-fret band on the shoulder, reserved with floral cartouches repeated on the domed cover (2). 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 14th-15th November 1983, lot 102.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York, 19 march 2013