Two blue and white 'Kraak porselein klapmuts' bowls, Wanli period (1573-1619). Estimate £500 – £800 ($767 - $1,227). Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

One bowl is decorated to the interior roundel with a ding and a vase and painted to the cavetto with peach and flower cartouches below sprays of bamboo and flower cartouches on rim. The other bowl is finely decorated with a hanging censer and similar cartouches on the cavetto below ruyi-heads and decorative panels on the everted rim. Each 5 ½ in. (14 cm.) diam.

Christie's. CHINESE CERAMICS, WORKS OF ART AND TEXTILES, 12 May 2015, London, South Kensington