Lot 189. A doucai 'lotus' saucer dish, Yongzheng mark and period (1736-1795)doucai 'lotus' saucer dish, Yongzheng mark and period (1736-1795); Diameter 16.7 and 16.5 cm, 6⅝ and 6½ in. Estimate: 8,000 - 12,000 GBP. Lot sold 25,200 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. 

each with steep rounded sides rising from a slightly recessed base, the exterior painted with a continuous scene of mandarin ducks amidst lotus blooms, under a band of sinuous five-clawed dragons, the interior with a central medallion enclosing a pair of ducks in a lotus pond and encircled by a lanca character band at the rim, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, 1985.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 4 November 2020