Lot 3023. A fine doucai 'Mandarin Duck and Lotus' bowl, Seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 10.2 cm., 4 in. Estimate 600,000 — 800,000 HKD. Lot sold 937,500 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's 2013

finely potted with steeply rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to a flared rim, finely enamelled around the exterior in underglaze blue and contrasting enamels with two pairs of mandarin ducks divided by clumps of lotus in iron-red and attendant sprays of sedge, above a band of petal lappets surrounding the base and between double lines encircling the foot and rim, the interior decorated with a similar medallion of mandarin ducks and lotus in iron red within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark, wood stand

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th May 1982, lot 369.