Lot 3141. A copper-red vase, yuhuchun, seal mark and period of Qianlong (1736-1795); 29.9 cm., 11 3/4  in. Estimate 250,000 -350,000 HKD. Lot sold400,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's.

elegantly potted with a pear-shaped body sweeping up to a waisted neck and a broad everted rim, supported on a short slightly splayed foot, richly applied on the exterior with a deep copper-red glaze finely suffused with bubbles and well controlled around the foot and rim, the interior and the base reserved in white, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character seal mark