Lot 3653. An important and exceedingly rare pair of cloisonne and champleve enamel gilt-bronze circular 'Chun' boxes and covers, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 9in. (23 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 15,000,000 - HKD 20,000,000. Price Realized HKD 51,060,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011

The top of each cover is decorated with Shoulao holding a peach, seated under a pine tree beside a deer and crane, within a roundel set against a large Chun, 'Spring', character flanked by a pair of five-clawed descending dragons amidst colourful clouds, above a lobed bowl filled with the Eight Treasures, Babao, all bordered by three concentric bands formed in turn by keyfrets, bats and lappets; the sides of the boxes are divided evenly by panels of dragons admist clouds and panels of bats, alternating with the Eight Auspicious Buddhism Emblems, Bajixiang, enamelled in vibrant colours of iron-red, green, lapis-blue, yellow and turquoise.

Provenance: Baron James de Rothschild (1792-1868) Collection, Chateau de Ferrieres, Seine et Marne, France and thence by descent.

Lot 3612. An extremely rare huanghualiluohan bed with three-panel railing, luohanchuang, Ming dynasty, 17th century; 31 in. (78.7 cm.) high x 82 1/4 in. (209 cm.) wide x 44 in. (111.5) cm deep. Estimate HKD 6,000,000 - HKD 8,000,000. Price Realized HKD 17,460,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011

Well and elegantly constructed with three large single huanghuali planks forming the back and side rails, above the wide rectangular frame enclosing the soft mat seat and a narrow waist and plain aprons, all supported on thick legs of square section terminating in hoof feet, the wood of attractive grain and figure.

Note: This elegantly proportioned luohan bed belongs to a rare group of lowback day beds with solid plank backs and arms. The few published extant examples are in important museum or private collections and while their basic form is the same, there are a number of variations
which allows them to be grouped into different categories.

The current bed, characterised by its straight legs ending in horseshoe feet and with straight solid plank back and sides, is one of the rarest variations of this form. The only other published example that displays the same characteristics is a three-panel-railing luohan bed in the Ming Room, the Astor Court at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and illustrated by R. H. Ellsworth in Chinese Furniture, New York, 1971, no. 34, 34a and by Sarah Handler, "The Revolution in Chinese Furniture: Moving from Mat to Chair", Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Winter 1990, pp. 38, 39.

A closely related example but with dipped corners and beaded edges in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is illustrated by Nancy Berliner in Beyond the Screen, Chinese Furniture of the 16th and 17th Centuries, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1996, pp. 118-119, no. 14 where the form
and uses of the luohan beds or couch beds is discussed at length. The author notes that the back panel, raised slightly higher than the side panels, is a feature which Ming connoisseurs proclaimed to be more elegant.

Two further examples, both with beaded mouldings and dipped corners similar to the Boston example but also with heavily pronounced inward-curving legs, include one in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, illustrated by Wang Shixiang, Connoisseurship of Chinese Furniture, Vol II: Plates., Hong Kong, 1990, p. 128, pl. C6; and another in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, illustrated in Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 1990, pp. 82-83, no. 22 where it is noted that couch beds retaining their original back and arms are extremely rare with only around twelve published examples known.

In all known solid-plank back examples what is particularly striking is the superb quality of the timber used. The simple unadorned form allows the elegant natural beauty of the grain to be admired without the distraction of carving or elaborate forms.

This type of bed would not only have been used as an alternative bed to sleep on, but also as a seat to receive guests and a daybed to rest on. For a discussion of the varied uses of this style of bed, see Sarah Handler, "Comfort and Joy: A Couch Bed for Day and Night," Journal of the Classical Chinese Furniture Society, Winter 1991, pp. 4-19, and the corresponding chapter in Austere Luminosity of Chinese Classical Furniture, Berkeley, 2001, ch. 9, pp. 122-138.

Lot 3564. A finely carved white jade censer and cover, Qianlong period (1736-1795); 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) wide. Estimate HKD 2,000,000 - HKD 3,000,000. Price Realized HKD 14,100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011

The rounded censer resting on three cabriole legs emerging from mythical beast heads and flanked by a pair of dragon handles, carved in relief around the sides with archaistic taotie mask designs divided by six raised vertical notched flanges below a waisted rim encircled by a keyfret border, the design repeated on the domed cover beneath a large circular out-turned finial suspending loose rings from three ruyi-form handles, the stone of an exceptionally even white tone, wood stands, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collector, acquired in Japan in the 1950s.

Lot 3640. A superb imperial hardstone-embellished white jade ruyi sceptre, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th century; 16 1/4 in. (41.2 cm.) long. Estimate HKD 4,000,000 - HKD 6,000,000. Price Realized HKD 14,100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd. 2011

The large sceptre is well carved from semi-translucent stone of creamy-white tone, finely inlaid with pink tourmaline, coral, lapis lazuli, malachite and turquoise, decorating the ruyi terminal with a garden scene of two bats in flight amidst peach branches growing from rockwork, the lower end of the terminal attached to the shaft with a finely detailed seated monkey 'pillar', the arched shaft inlaid with leafy bamboo branches and lily stems, above lingzhi and chrysanthemum growing from rockwork at the base of the shaft, stand, box.

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong during the 1950s.

Note: The ruyi is of an exceptionally large size, and made all the more vibrant by the colourful inlays. The present ruyi appears to be the mirror image pair to an example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Jade in the National Palace Museum - Supplement, Taipei, 1973, no. 28. A copy of the catalogue is available to the purchaser of this lot.

Another large sceptre decorated with inlays in a very similar style to the present lot, from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the 1995 exhibition, Auspicious Ju-I Sceptres of China, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 22. A pair of smaller ruyi sceptres inlaid with a design of quails and millet is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Jadeware (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 30.

Lot 3433. A very rare pair of blue-ground underglaze-red decorated 'dragon' bowls, Kangxi six-character marks within double circles and of the period (1662-1722); 6 1/4 in. (15.6 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,800,000 - HKD 2,500,000 Price Realized HKD 2,200,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Each bowl is well potted with deep rounded sides rising from a tapering foot to a flared rim. The exterior is incised and decorated in underglaze red with a pair of five-clawed dragons in pursuit of flaming pearls, against a blue ground of waves above a band of lappets encircling the foot. The interior of each is covered in a bluish-white glaze, box.

Provenance: T.Y. Chao Family Trust, no. 74
T.Y. Chao Family Collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 73.

Exhibited: Hong Kong Museum of Art, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong, January - March 1978, p. 74, no. 77.

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Lot 3435. A green and yellow-enamelled 'boys' bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 6 in. (15.1 cm) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 937,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 

The bowl is delicately incised around the exterior with boys playing musical instruments forming a procession on a terraced garden between a band of petal lappets below a foliate band above. It is covered with a green enamel reserved against a lemon-yellow ground. 

Provenance: A Japanese private collection
Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2008, lot 2511.

Note: Yongzheng bowls with this type of decoration are seen with two different bands around the rim. Some have floral borders with demi-florettes, as seen on the present lot, while others have quatrefoil panels.

A Yongzheng bowl of this design is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 103; one illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London and New York, 1985, pl. 121; another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, vol. 2, pl. 203. Similar bowls with different border at the mouth rims are also published: one in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Procelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Shanghai, 2009, pl. 100; one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, London, 1986, front cover; and a pair sold at Christie's London, 21 June 2001, lot 102

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Lot 3016. A white-glazed olive-shaped vase with handles, Mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 26.8 cm., 10 5/8 in. Estimate 300,000 — 500,000 HKD. Lot Sold 2,660,000. Photo Sotheby's

elegantly potted with curved sides rising to a rounded shoulder, surmounted by a slender waisted neck with a cup-shaped mouth, the neck flanked by ear-shaped handles, applied overall with a lustrous white glaze, the recessed base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle.

Note: Vases of this form are rare, although a closely related example, but covered in a whitish Guan-type glaze, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol. 1, pt. II, Beijing, 2005, pl. 158. Compare also a Yongzheng mark and period vase of this shape, but decorated in underglaze blue with a wide band of floral scrolls between rows of stiff leaves, in the Wang Xing Lou collection, included in the exhibition Imperial Perfection. The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 2004, cat. no. 6; and another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum. K'ang-hsi Ware and Yung-cheng Ware, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 69.

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Lot 3017. A large Ge-type moonflask with handles, Seal mark and period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 50.5 cm., 20 in. Estimate 2,000,000 — 3,000,000 HKD. Lot Sold 9,620,000. Photo Sotheby's

sturdily potted of compressed quatrelobed form, rising from a splayed foot to a waisted neck of conforming shape, flanked by a pair of openwork handles resembling stylised dragons, covered overall with an opaque bluish-grey glaze suffused with a network of grey crackles, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1986, lot 86.

Note: Flasks of this shape are extremely rare and no other example with this glaze appears to have been published. The monumental size and subtle lobed form demonstrate the ambitious technical and artistic achievements of the Qing potters working in the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during Yongzheng's reign. The elegance of the flask is reinforced by the smooth cracked glaze which is a fine imitation of the classic 'Ge' Song wares.

A Yongzheng mark and period flask of closely related form and dimensions, decorated in underglaze blue with birds in fruiting branches, was sold in our London rooms, 5th July 1977, lot 232; and another, but with slightly differing handles and painted with an underglaze blue composite floral scroll, was sold in our London rooms, 27th November 1973, lot 261. Blue and white flasks of this form continued to be produced from the Yongzheng period; for a smaller unmarked example decorated with flower scrolls, see one sold at Christie's London, 18th June 2002, lot 194, and again in these rooms, 10th April 2006, lot 1836; and another depicting birds and peaches, in the Osaka City Municpal Museum, illustrated in Shincho Kogei no bi, Tokyo, 1993, pl. 70.

Compare Yongzheng mark and period moonflasks of similar size and Ge-type glaze but of varying forms, such as an octagonal example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol. 1, pt. 1, Beijing, 2005, pl. 172; and a circular moonflask moulded with a central yin yang boss surrounded by the ba gua (Eight Trigrams), sold in our London rooms, 8th November 2006, lot 173.

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Lot 3486. A fine yellow-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowl, Kangxi six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1662-1722); 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price Realized HKD 1,120,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The bowl has deep rounded sides rising to a flaring rim from a short straight foot. It is finely incised around the exterior with two striding five-clawed dragons chasing flaming pearls amidst flames and clouds, above a band of ruyi lappets around the base. The interior is incised with a Shou character roundel. It is enamelled overall in an even rich yellow tone stopping neatly around the foot. The interior of foot with a transparent glaze.

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Lot 3487. A fine Langyao red-glazed vase, guanyin zun, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 17 3/4 in. (45 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 1,240,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The slender waisted body has high-shoulders and stands on a stepped foot rim, below a slightly waisted cylindrical neck with gentle flared rim. It is covered with a crackle-suffused glaze of intense crushed strawberry tone thinning to pale beige-celadon towards the rim. The base is covered in a similar, pale celadon crackled glaze, Japanese wood box.

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Lot 3488. A peachbloom-glazed brush washer, tangluo xi, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period (1662-1722); 4 7/8 in. (11.6 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 700,000 - HKD 900,000. Price Realized HKD 1,360,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The compressed globular body is covered on the exterior with a glaze of crushed strawberry-red and mottled greyish-green colour. The interior and base are white. The base is inscribed with the reign mark in underglaze blue, box.

Provenance: Mrs. Enid Lodge and Brodie Lodge, sold at Sotheby's, London, 10 December 1968, lot 127
Sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 18-19 May 1982, lot 264
Sold at Christie's New York, 16 September 2010, lot 1403.

Exhibited: Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, October 1948, no. 77
The Chinese Scholar's Desk, 17th to 18th Century, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1979, no. 24.

Note: This type of brush washer is described as being of gong shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a very compressed body. It belongs to a group of vessels referred to as the Badama, 'Eight Great Numbers'. This group was previously thought to comprise a total of eight differing shapes. John Ayers identified a possible ninth form of the Badama by pointing out the existence of two slightly different globular water pots. The first is termed as a pingguo zun, 'apple jar' modelled with a gently inward curving mouth rim; and the other with a raised, low, neck (similar to a stalk) that maybe referred to as a Shi liu, or 'Pomegranate jar'. See, J. Ayers, 'The 'Peachbloom Wares of the Kangxi Period (1662-1722), Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol. 64, 1999-2000, p. 49.

Many of the world's great museums have published similar examples of brush washers, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Palace Museum, Beijing and the Sir Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London. The brush washer in the Metropolitan Museum is illustrated with a group of peachbloom-glazed vessels made for the scholar's table, including a beehive water pot, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237, no. 236. Compare with examples of Kangxi-marked brush washers of this type sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2009, lot 445, and from the Y.C. Chen Collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 1905.

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Lot 3489. A fine and very rare blue-glazed water pot, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 6 cm. (2 3/8 in.) diam. Estimate HKD 800,000 - HKD 1,200,000. Price Realized HKD 1,840,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The water pot is finely potted in a compressed globular shape standing on a countersunk base. The mouth rim is notched on one side to accommodate a spoon. The vessel is covered on the exterior with an even, brilliant cobalt blue thinning slightly towards the rims, and glazed white in the interior and base, boxwood stand, fitted box.

Note: Water pots of this size and shape are rare. A pair of almost identical examples formerly in the J.M. Hu Collection is illustrated in Zhandelou zhencang lidai mingci jingpu, vol. III, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 134, p. 112. Two Kangxi examples of comparable size and shape, one in red glaze and the other in green, are illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pp. 19-20, nos. 16-17.

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Lot 3490. A fine yellow-enamelled bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 200,000 - HKD 300,000. Price Realized HKD 475,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The bowl is thinly potted with rounded sides rising towards a slightly everted rim. The exterior is covered with a pale yellow enamel, the interior and base with a transparent glaze, stand, box.

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 May 1987, lot 501.

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Lot 3492. A fine blue-glazed wine-cup, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price Realized HKD 625,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The cup is delicately potted with flared sides supported on a short foot. The thin eggshell body is covered on the exterior with an even glaze of sapphire-blue tone. The interior and base are covered with a transparent glaze, box.

Provenance: A European private collection formed in the 1980s and 1990s.

Note: This cup is a distinguished example of Qing imperial wares for its extremely refined body potted to eggshell thinness and the well polished deep blue glaze. Compare to another small Yongzheng blue-glazed cup with deeper sides in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 209. A similar pair of bowls was included in the exhibition by Marchant, Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two Coloured Wares, London, 1992, Catalogue, no. 13.

See also a similar blue-glazed cup of Qianlong mark and period included in the National Palace Museum exhibition Special Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1981, Catalogue, no. 53

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Lot 3492. A very rare small clair-de-lune-glazed jar, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 4 1/4 in. (10.8 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 500,000 - HKD 700,000. Price Realized HKD 625,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The jar is delicately potted with deep rounded sides rising to a lipped rim, and covered with a soft pale blue glaze on the exterior below the rim and stopping neatly above the unglazed foot. The interior and the base glazed white, box.

Note: The present jar appears to be unique. The closest example is a Yongzheng-marked clair-de-lune-glazed jar in the Qing Court collection, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Chinese Government Exhibits for the International Exhibition of Chinese Art London, vol. II, Porcelain, Shanghai, 1936, p. 164, no. 217, which has the same form as the current jar, but is slightly larger in size (11 cm. high; 13 cm. mouth diam.), and is glazed on both the exterior and interior, while bearing a four-character seal mark. It is interesting to note another type of similar jars, which has a larger width-to-height ratio, and a six-character seal mark, such as an example in the National Palace Museum, museum no. zhongci000556N; and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai guanyao ciqi, vol. 1.1, Beijing, 2005, p. 268, no. 120.

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Lot 3494. A very rare pair of white-glazed 'Liu Hai' vases, Yongzheng four-character seal marks and of the period (1723-1735); 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 600,000 - HKD 800,000. Price Realized HKD 2,920,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Each vase is delicately potted with a globular body supported on a stepped foot, and surmounted by a cylindrical neck rising to a flaring mouth rim. Each is moulded with two sets of double bowstring bands, one encircling the foot, the other surrounding the neck, which is flanked by two addorsed figures of Liu Hai, each holding a lingzhi spray and a string of coins, and accompanied by a three-legged toad.

Provenance: An English private collection, purchased in the 1960s.

Note: The present pair of vases is extremely unusual, especially for its decoration of figure-form handles. Compare to a nearly identical example (fig. 1) in the Palace Museum, Beijing, suffused with glaze lines throughout its exterior, illustrated by Geng Baochang (ed.) in Gugong Bowuyuan cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi, juan 1, vol. 1. pp. 198-9, no. 85.

White-glazed 'Liu Hai' vase, Yongzheng mark and of the period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing.

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Lot 3495. A blue-glazed anhua-decorated 'dragon' dish, Yongzheng six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 687,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The dish with flared sides supported on a cylindrical foot is covered on the exterior with a slightly mottled deep blue glaze. The white interior is incised with anhua decoration with a leaping five-clawed dragon in the centre pursuing a flaming pearl.

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Lot 3496. A fine and very rare peacock-feather glazed bottle vase, Yongzheng period (1723-1735);10 1/8 in. (25.8 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 600,000 - HKD 800,000. Price Realized HKD 1,000,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The vase is finely potted with a globular body rising from a tall splayed foot to a long cylindrical neck below a cupped mouth, moulded on the neck with three raised bands and the body with a triple raised band. It is covered overall with a rich mottled glaze ranging from pale blue through turquoise to purple, reminiscent of the colours of peacock feathers. The foot is covered with a black dressing, wood stand, Japanese wood box.

Provenance: A Japanese private collection formed in the 1930s.

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Lot 3497. A fine pair of yellow-enamelled saucers, Yongzheng six-character marks within double circles and of the period (1723-1735); 5 1/4 in. (13.4 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 562,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Each is finely potted with shallow rounded sides, covered under an enamel of rich egg-yolk yellow tone. The base is covered with a transparent glaze, box.

Property from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. James E. Breece III.

Provenance: Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 2 May 1984, lot 709
Sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 November 2004, lot 1138.

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Lot 3498. A pair of yellow-enamelled incised 'dragon' bowls, Jiaqing six-character seal marks and of the period (1796-1820); 5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 400,000 - HKD 600,000. Price Realized HKD 750,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

Each bowl is well-potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a straight rim. Each is finely incised with a pair of dragons striding amidst flames in pursuit of a flaming pearl above cresting waves, covered overall in an enamel of egg-yolk yellow tone, box.

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