Lot 63. A copper-red and gilt bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 8 1/2 in., 21.6 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the shouldered ovoid body painted in copper-red of soft pinkish-red tone shading to a paler red-green with three mythical animals, their eyes picked out in underglaze blue and the details highlighted in gilding over the glaze, the tall thin neck with slightly lipped mouth with gilding around the rim, the base unglazed. 

Property from the Estate of William and Jennifer Shaw

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 9th July 1974, lot 276.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th-28th October 1993, lot 211.

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