A pair of ormolu-mounted famille verte and powder-blue vases and ormolu covers. The porcelain Kangxi, the mounts later probably French. Photo courtesy Bonhams.

Each vase delicately enamelled in three medallions around the body containing birds and flowers including a duck beside lotus flowers and leaves, a phoenix curving in flight towards a branch of tree peony and a peacock flying above chrysanthemums, all reserved against a powder-blue-ground with three lobed square cartouches and three fan-shaped cartouches also containing birds and flowers, the blue enamel gilded with a lobster, a fish and a crab amongst waterweed. Overall 45.5cm (18in) high (4). Estimate £10,000 - 15,000 (€12,000 - 18,000). Unsold.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART. London, New Bond Street. 7 Nov 2013 - www.bonhams.com