Lot 154. A pair of doucai 'figural' dishes, Kangxi marks and period (1662-1722). Diameter 6 1/4  in., 15.8 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000. Lot sold 23,750 USD. © Sotheby's.

each with shallow rounded sides rising from a tapered foot, finely enameled to the interior with a lady sitting in a pavilion overseeing a child grasping a branch of bamboo with a phoenix perching atop, beside a carp leaping above waves, the exterior with three further carp leaping above crashing waves, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle (2).

Note: Compare a doucai dish of this type sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26th September 1989, lot 728.