Lot 187. A Chinese Famille Verte bottle vase , probably Kangxi period (1662-1722). Est: £500–800. Sold for £2200. Photo Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions

painted in iron-red, shades of green, grey-purple and gilt with aquatic and other flowers, brown-line rim, gilded details, 25cm high; minor wear but in very good condition

Provenance: By descent through the Fludyer Family, finally to Sir Arthur John Fludyer, 5th and last baronet, who died childless in 1922 and then to his sister Katherine who married Henry Randolph Finch of the Croft, Manton, second son of George Finch, Burley-on-the-Hill, Rutland and by descent. 

Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions. Chinese Ceramics and Asian Works of Art, Tuesday 17 May 2016