Lot 252. A large pair of moulded blue and white bowls, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 GBP. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's.

each with deep rounded sides rising from a short tapering foot to an everted barbed rim, moulded and painted in rich cobalt-blue tones around the body with flower-filled lotus lappets below flower-filled spiralling rectangular panels, the interior with a medallion enclosing flowers issuing from rockwork, encircled at the rim by four quatrefoil panels enclosing flowers and reserved on a trellis-diaper band. Quantity: 2 - 34 cm, 13 3/8  in. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, London, 11 May 2016