Lot 19. A copper-red underglaze-blue ‘peach’ meiping, Qing dynasty; 27cm., 10 5/8 in. Estimate 4,000-6,000 GBP. Unsold . Photo: Sotheby's.

the tapering body rising to curved shoulders and surmounted by a waisted neck, painted to the exterior in underglaze-blue and copper-red with nine peaches borne on a gnarled flowering tree growing between jagged rocks with young shrubs, all between stylised floral scroll bands, the neck with stylised ruyi clouds, the base with an apocryphal Kangxi mark within a double-circle.