Lot 711. A fine Ming-style blue and white vase (yuhuchun ping), Tongzhi mark and period (1865-1875). Estimate 20,000 — 30,000, USD. Lot sold 27,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.  

the pear-shaped body painted around the sides with banana fronds and bamboo beside rocks in a fenced garden, between a band of lappets encircling the base and a ruyi band at the shoulder, the waisted neck with a scrollwork frieze beneath a band of upright stiff leaves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. Height 11 1/2  in., 29.2 cm 

Note: A vase of this design and period from the collection of C. P. Lin was included in the exhibition Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, Percival David Foundation, London, 1992, cat. no. 198, and another was in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 91.