Lot 1478. A famille-rose 'Pheasant and Peony' reticulated dish, Qing dynasty. Diameter 11 1/4  in., 28.7 cm. Estimate $3,000 - $5,000. Sold: $125,000. © Sotheby's

brightly enameled to the interior with a male pheasant standing on top of pierced rockwork, gazing towards its mate perching under a magnolia tree, all surrounded by leafy branches of lush peony, the rounded cavetto delicately pierced with foliate scrollwork enclosing  the 'Eight Auspicious Emblems'  below a painted band of lotus scrolls and a gilt rim, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Collection of Janet Lea Porteous McDougall (1919-2011), Quebec, Canada.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017