Lot 46. A blue and white cylindrical vase, rolwagen, Chongzhen period (1628-1644); 44cm (17 5/8in) high. Estimate £30,000 - 50,000 (€36,000 - 61,000). Sold for £ 50,000 (€ 56,121). Photo Bonhams.

Vigorously painted with a high official rasing a hu tablet accompanied by two attendants, one holding a large fan, the other with a Buddhist parasol, all surrounded with ethereal swirling clouds parted in places to reveal the moon and two constellations above ramparts, the reverse decorated with two tall plantain, the shoulder and foot with an incised band, the neck with typical downward-pointing plantain leaves. 

Provenance: a British private collection.
The base with a label reading 'Mrs M.A.A. Lovett, and by descent from King William IV' (reigned 1830-1837).

Note: For a related rolwagen vase, see Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, pp.48-49; and also Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, p.88, pl.60; p.110, pl.63.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street, 15 May 2014 - www.bonhams.com