Lot 272. A blue and white stembowl, Jiajing mark and period (1522-1566). Height 4 1/4 in., 10.8 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 8,125 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the bowl with an everted rim, supported on a tall, slightly spreading hollow foot, painted on the exterior with a scholar on a horse followed by an attendant carrying a qin going to visit friends, with other scholars in a mountainous landscape setting, the interior with a medallion enclosing a scholar by a riverbank within double-line borders, a band of geometric cross pattern on the interior rim, the interior of the foot rim with a four-character mark in underglaze blue. 

Property from The Estate of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Eckhardt. 

Provenance: Acquired in Japan between 1947 and 1952 and thence by descent.