A 'Famille-Verte' plaque mounted as a table screen, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's.

of rectangular form, painted on both sides in bright enamels, one depicting an animated scene of a backward facing archer on horseback unwittingly racing towards capture, possibly the "Chasing the Rebel Sun Biao" scene from The Romance of the Western Chamber, all within a cell-pattern border cornered by lingzhi, the reverse with a landscape, bare trees and evergreens along one edge and distant dwelling tucked behind hills and shrouded by trees  on the other, centered by a sparely painted flock of migrating geese indicating the coming of winter, accompanied by a gilt poetic inscription enclosed by a dense floral border, wood frame and stand (2) - Length of plaque 10 in., 25.4 cm

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, New York, 17 mars 2015, 02:00 PM