Lot 241. A blue and white ovoid jar, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 24.5 cm, 9 5/8  in. Estimate: £4,000 - £6,000. Lot Sold: £17,500. © Sotheby's

the rounded sides of the jar rising to a short unglazed neck, painted on one side with a lotus waterscape cartouche detailed with large blooms and lotus pads, the opposite side with a scene of two scholars conversing within a 'Master of the Rocks' style mountainscape, the cover decorated with flying insects encircling blooming peonies issuing from rocks, with a band of further blooms around the side, the base with a double ring in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Collection of Max Robertson (according to label).
Spink & Son Ltd, London (according to label). 

Sotheby's. St George Street Sale: Chinese Art, London, 10 November 2017