A blue and white meiping, Ming dynasty, 16th century. Photo Sotheby's

the tapering body rising to curved shoulders surmounted by a flaring neck, painted in broad cobalt-blue strokes with large peony and chrysanthemum blooms issuing from rocks in a garden landscape, all above a band of horses galloping on cresting waves, the shoulder encircled by a diaper band with quatrefoil cartouches enclosing peach sprays, the neck with stiff leaves; together with a pair of smaller blue and white meiping decorated with lotus scrolls. Quantité: 3. The meiping: 24.8cm., 9 3/4 in. Estimation 10,000 - 15,000 GBP 

Provenance: Sydney L. Moss, London

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. London | 06 nov. 2013 - http://www.sothebys.com