Lot 3008. A blue and white 'phoenix' bowl, mark and period of Jiajing (1522-1566); 13 cm, 5 1/8  in. Estimate 120,000 — 180,000 HKD (15,299 - 22,948 USD). Lot Sold 625,000 HKD (79,581 USD). Courtesy Sotheby's.

the curved rounded sides rising from a domed base, painted to the exterior in bright cobalt-blue tones, depicting a pair of phoenix in flight amongst a composite floral meander, the interior similarly painted with a central medallion enclosing a single phoenix, below a frieze of four further phoenix each grasping a floral spray in its beak around the rim, the concave base with a six-character reign mark within a double circle.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 14th December 1976, lot 110. 
P.C. Lu & Sons, Hong Kong, 1979.
Christie's New York, 20th September 2005, lot 257.

Sotheby's. An Important Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 8 october 2019