Lot 708. A pair of blue and white 'peony' bowls, Qing dynasty, Kangxi marks and period (1662-1722). Estimate 5,000 — 7,000, USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.  

each with deep, rounded sides rising from a short straight foot to an everted rim, decorated to the exterior with a frieze of stylized peony scroll above a petal-lappet border, the interior with a single bloom issuing leaves within a central roundel, the base with a six-character mark within a double circle in underglaze blue (2). Diameter 6 3/8  in., 16.3 cm 

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 17th November 1998, lot 204.