A fine wucai 'Dragon and Phoenix' bowl, Seal mark and period of Daoguang. Estimate  90,000 — 120,000  HKD.  Lot sold. 200,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's.

deftly decorated around the exterior with a green and a red five-clawed dragon striding among flowering chrysanthemum and peony reaching for pearls, alternating with descending phoenix, all below a band of beribboned auspicious objects and ruyi encircling the rim, the interior similarly decorated with a red dragon within a central medallion, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark; 15.6 cm., 6 1/8  in.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 1st November 1999, lot 445.

Sotheby's. CHINESE ART. 01 JUNE 2015 - 02 JUNE 2015 | 3:15 PM HKT - HONG KONG