A rare doucai ovoid jar, China, Yongzheng-Qianlong period (1723-1795). Estimate $5,000 - $8,000. Price Realized $509,000 . Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The ovoid body finely enameled and shaded in bright tones of green, yellow, mauve, iron-red and underglaze blue with scattered and overlapping stylized flowerheads - 7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

Provenance:  The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, before 1971.

Notes: Compare the present vase with an identical unmarked vase of the same size dated to the Yongzheng period in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 38 - Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 248, no. 227. A Qianlong-marked vase of this rare pattern was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1st May 2001, lot 562.

Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART III - CHINESE WORKS OF ART: QING CERAMICS, GLASS AND JADE CARVINGS, 19 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.