Lot 1480. A famille-rose 'Three Goats' vase, Republic period (1911-1949). Height 13 3/8  in., 34 cm. Estimate $15,000 - $20,000. Sold: $30,000. © Sotheby's

of baluster form with a globular body rising to a tall waisted neck flanked by a pair of elephant-head handles, the body painted in pastel tones with three goats amid peonies, camellias, and trees, set between two bands of ruyi lappets, the neck ornamented with a pair of pink bats clasping peaches above formal lotus flowerheads issuing forth scrolling vines reserved on a pistachio-green ground, the splayed foot with a narrow green band with lotus scrolls, the turquoise enameled base with an apocryphal iron-red six-character Daoguang seal mark within a white cartouche.

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