A blue and white beaker  vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

of archaistic gu form, the splayed foot rising to a slightly convex middle section and to a wide trumpet mouth, the top section vibrantly painted with a scene from Wang Shifu's Xixiang ji (Romance of the West Chamber) depicting Cui Yingying and her maid, Hong Niang, bidding farewell to Zhang, the mid-section with a  continuous landscape, the lowest register with a seated scholar and attendant, the base with an apocryphal Jiajing mark. Height 10 in., 25.4 cm

Provenance: Collection of Mr. J.P. Argenti by 1947.
Sotheby's New York, 3rd May 1981, lot 295.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York. 15 sept. 2015