Lot 212. A 'Cizhou' brown-slip painted 'Bird' bottle vase (yuhuchunping), Yuan dynasty (1279-1366). Height 11 in., 28 cm. Estimate 80,000 — 100,000 USD. Lot sold 329,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's 2014.

painted in two registers, each with three stylized fan-tailed birds with spread wings, on white slip under a clear glaze falling short of the pedestal foot.