Lot 528. A blue and white soft paste 'Buddhist lion' vase, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723-1735). Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's. 

the ovoid body raised on a splayed foot and rising to a waisted neck and flared rim, the shoulders set to each side with shallow relief-molded lion-mask handles suspending mock rings, brilliantly painted in deep tones of underglaze blue, with a large Buddhist lion seated beside lingzhi on one side, and a smaller lion beneath a willow tree on the other, with two lingzhi and floral sprays to the mouth. Height 12 1/8  in., 30.7 cm

Provenance: Collection of Heber R. Bishop (1840-1902), and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art New York, 15 Mar 2017