A fine and rare blue and white bird feeder. Mark and period of Xuande. Photo Sotheby's the small drum-shaped container painted in bright washes of cobalt blue with four quatrefoil cartouches, inscribed horizontally in two with the reign mark Da Ming Xuande...

A fine and rare blue and white stemcup. Mark and period of Xuande. photo courtesy Sotheby's the globular body rising from a high domed hollow foot with stepped edge to an incurved broad mouth rim, finely painted in heaped and piled cobalt-blue tones to...

A fine and rare blue and white pilgrim's flask. Mark and period of Xuande. photo courtesy Sotheby's based on a Middle Eastern metalwork prototype, the body consisting of two domed sections, painted on one side in rich cobalt-blue with linked ruyi heads...

A fine and extremely rare blue and white stembowl. Mark and period of Xuande exquisitely potted with gently rounded sides rising to a wide mouth, supported on a slightly flared tall hollow cylindrical foot tapering towards the top, faintly decorated on...