Lot 3704. A doucai 'Mandarin Duck and Lotus Pond' bowl, Seal mark and period of Daoguang (1821-1850), 16.4 cm, 6 1/2  in. Estimate 180,000 — 280,000 HKD. Lot sold 300,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's. 

the steep rounded sides painted to the exterior with pairs of mandarin ducks depicted swimming and flying amidst large iron-red lotus blooms, below a narrow band of underglaze blue dragons in pursuit of 'flaming pearls', the interior similarly decorated with a central medallion enclosing a pair of ducks in a lotus pond, below a band of lança characters encircling the rim, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark

Provenance: C.C. Teng & Co., Taipei.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 05 Apr 2017