Lot 805. A rare three-piece famille-rose garniture, Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723-1735). Jars 24 1/4 in., 61.6 cm. Beakers 20 1/8 in., 51.1 cm. Estimate 150,000 — 200,000 USD. Lot sold 180,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's

comprising a pair of ovoid covered jars and a gu beaker vase, the jars each finely and colorfully painted in a pastel pallette with a lush setting of a peony tree with over-sized blooms intertwined with a magnolia tree issuing from rocks, with two birds one in mid-flight and the other perched on a branch and several butterflies fluttering around, set between detatched orchid sprigs and double lozenges collaring the neck and a band of cartouches enclosing butterflies and flowers reserved on a yellow diaper ground centered with a pink peony around the shoulders, and a band of lime-green ground lappets skirting the foot, the domed cover with a bud finial similarly decorated, as well as the gu vase further decorated with birds, peonies and magnolias, stands, (7)

Provenance: Collection of M.M Tournet, Paris.
Collection of Luis de Errazu, Madrid.
The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York.