Lot 3025. A fine pair of yellow-glazed bowls, Seal marks and period of Jiaqing (1796-1820); 11.9 cm., 4 5/8  in. Estimate 250,000 — 350,000 HKD. Lot sold 562,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's

each with steep rounded sides supported on a narrow straight foot, finely incised around the exterior with four 'flowerballs' interspersed among billows of clouds above a band of petal lappets suspending trefoils, all between a double incised line encircling the foot and rim, the interior similarly incised in the centre with a 'flowerball' within a double-circle medallion, all beneath a translucent pale yellow glaze applied on the biscuit, save for the base left white and inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 25th November 1981, lot 301

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 Oct 2013