Lot 21. A puce-enameled 'Phoenix Medallion' bowl, Guangxu mark and period (1875-1908). Diameter 5 5/8 in., 14.3 cm. Estimate 7,000 — 9,000 USD. Lot sold 7,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's

with rounded sides rising from a straight foot to an everted rim, the exterior decorated with five phoenix roundels with wings outstretched and their tails curled underneath, with one further roundel in the center of the interior, six-character mark in underglaze blue. 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th-28th October 1992, lot 177.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012