Lot 3673. A doucai 'Anbaxian' ogee bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 20.1 cm., 7 7/8  in.  Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 HKD. Lot sold 350,000 HKD (41,601 EUR). © Sotheby's

the bowl of ogee form rising from a tapered foot, the interior with a flat central well decorated with an interlinked scroll border enclosing a swirled roundel issuing alternating yellow and blue flames, surrounded by four peaches born on the leafy scroll border, the cavetto finely decorated with the anbaxian emblems, each accentuated with billowing ribbons, the exterior brightly decorated with eight stylised floral blooms borne on undulating leafy scrolls above a border of ruyi-heads alternating with upright lappets, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 17th May 1988, lot 210.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 30th October 2000, lot 166.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, Hong Kong, 07 april 2015