A green and yellow enamel 'birds and peach' bowl, Jiaqing seal mark and of the period. Photo: Bonhams.

Potted with deep rounded sides rising from a high slightly tapering foot, the exterior finely incised and enamelled in green, depicting birds in flight amidst fruiting peach trees and flowering branches issuing from rockwork above grass, below a single green band at the mouth rim, all on a rich yellow ground stopping neatly at the foot, the concave base with an Imperial black-enamel seal mark. 12.3cm diam. Estimte HK$ 180,000 - 220,000 (€17,000 - 21,000). Unsold.

Notes: Compare an identical-sized Jiaqing period green and yellow enamel polychrome bowl also decorated with birds and peaches housed in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, p.139, no.113.

For an example sold at auction, see a very similar green and yellow enamelled bowl, with near identical decoration and black-enamelled Jiaqing seal mark and of the period, sold in Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1774.

Christie's. THROUGH CONNOISSEURS' EYES - WORKS OF ART FOR THE EMPEROR, 28 May 2014, Hong Kong - http://www.christies.com/