Lot 16. A large rose-verte 'Scholars' bottle vase, yuhuchun ping, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1736-1795). Height 34.5 cm, 13½ in. Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 GBP. Lot sold 77,500 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.

the pear-shaped body supported on a spreading foot and tapering to a waisted neck and flared rim, richly enamelled to the body with three scholars playing go, together with two male attendants holding covered boxes to the side, the reverse decorated with prominent pine trees emerging from colourful jagged rocks.

Provenance: Christie's New York, 3rd June 1988, lot 300.