Lot 15. A pair of Ming-style copper-red 'Three Fish' stemcups, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 3 5/8 in., 9.2 cm. Estimate 12,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot sold 37,500 USD. Photo Sotheby's

each with rounded bowl rising to an everted rim, supported on a tall solid splayed foot with a flat unglazed base, the exterior in copper-red with the silhouettes of three evenly spaced fish, each inscribed on the interior with an apocryphal six-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, wood stands (4). 

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3rd-4th May 1994, lot 187

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw.

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