Lot 120. A famille-verte 'Kingfisher and Lotus' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 8 in., 20.3 cm. Estimate 12,000 — 15,000 USD. Unsold. © Sotheby's.

the slender ovoid body surmounted by a trumpet neck, boldly enameled to one side with a kingfisher perched on a lotus stem rising from a lotus pond, with furled lotus flowers, pads and water weeds, the other side with a ten-character poetic inscription signed Yunqiao in black enamel, followed by an iron-red seal reading Zhushiju, the shoulder encircled by a collar of prunus on a spiral green ground, with a black-enameled leafy bamboo stem to the neck.

Provenance: J.T. Tai & Co., Inc., New York, 9th March 1964. 
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 12 sept. 2018, 10:30 AM