Lot 6. A rare celadon-ground copper-red and blue moonflask, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Height 9 3/4 in., 25.4 cm. Estimate 40,000 — 60,000 USD. Lot sold 98,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's

resting on a splayed base and surmounted by a waisted neck with garlic-shaped mouth, the rounded sides with four lugs, painted on one side in underglaze blue and copper-red with a fruiting pomegranate, the other with a finger citron branch, all on a pale celadon ground of bluish-green tone, seal mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 28th April 1997, lot 786. 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 11 september 2012