A doucai 'Flowers and Birds' meiping, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Estimate  80,000 — 120,000  HKD.  Lot sold. 225,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's.

rising from a waisted foot to a tapering shoulder and short waisted neck, finely painted in underglaze blue and finely enamelled with two long-tailed birds among lush flowering branches of peony, prunus and magnolia, the neck collared with a band of ruyi, all between single or double-line borders encircling the neck and foot, apocryphal Chenghua mark; 21.5 cm., 8 1/2  in.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 20th March 2007, lot 796. 

Sotheby's. CHINESE ART. 01 JUNE 2015 - 02 JUNE 2015 | 3:15 PM HKT - HONG KONG