Lot 73. A fine yellow and green-enamelled lotus bowl, Jiajing six-character mark, 17th century. Sold for £16,250 (€20,971). Photo: Bonhams.

With deep rounded sides rising steeply from a narrow foot, vividly decorated in the interior and exterior with lotus blooms in aubergine enamels, issuing from leafy sprigs in emerald-green, all on a yellow-lemon ground, the straight foot further decorated with floral scrolls beneath upright curling petal lappets, Japanese box.18.3cm (7 1/4in) diam. (3). 

Provenance: Nagoya Bijutsu Kurabu, Nagoya, 4 March 1918

Published and Illustrated: Sekai toji zenshu, 11, Tokyo, 1956, p.217, pl.129 

Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET