Lot 40. A doucai 'medallion' jar, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Height 4 1/8 in., 10.4 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's

of ovoid form, painted and enameled with two registers of eight roundels, each containing iron-red chrysanthemums, interspersed with yellow lotus sprays, all between underglaze blue bands of ruyilappets, seal mark in underglaze blue. 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16th May 1989, lot 298.