An employee poses with a rare underglaze-blue polychrome-enamelled 'Magpie and Prunus' vase expected to realise 300,000 - 500,000 GBP (480,000 - 800,000 USD) at auction as part of the forthcoming Sotheby's Fine Chinese Ceramics and Work of Art auction in London on November 2, 2012. AFP PHOTO / BEN STANSALL