Lot 100. A large famille-rose basin, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 41 cm, 16 1/8  in. Estimate £15,000 - £25,000. © Sotheby's.

the deep spreading sides rising from a flat base to a broad everted flaring rim, brightly enamelled to the interior with a medallion enclosing the emperor and his concubine watching young maidens in boats picking lotus flowers from the pond, encircled at the rim by cusped floral panels reserved on a dense leafy lotus ground. 

Provenance: S. Marchant and Son, London, 2011.

Collection of Roy Davids.