A doucai 'Floral' bowl, Qianlong seal mark and period. Estimate 25,000 — 35,000 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's

the deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a gently everted rim, finely decorated on the interior with a medallion of composite iron-red, white and blue-petalled flowers encircled by interlocking blue and green strapwork, the exterior with six similar clusters of flowers springing from the foot and framed by interlocked foliate and budded scrolls forming strapwork panels, all below a yellow-ground band of underglaze-blue ruyi at the rim, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark in underglaze-blue - 14.7cm., 5 3/4 in.

Provenance: Ingrid Gruterich Asiatische Kunsthandlung, Essen, 1975.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art Londres, 13 mai 2015, 11:00 AM