The well-potted deep bowl rising from a tall spreading foot to a flared rim, painted to the exterior in vibrant underglaze red with a peach, pomegranate and persimmon, thesanduo, each borne on a leafy branch delicately painted in blue washes, the interior of the stem foot with the reign mark effaced, box.
Provenance: Tai Sing Co., Hong Kong, 1983.
Note: This very rare design is found on two Yongzheng-marked examples in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing. One is illustrated in Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong Commercial Press, 2000, p. 223, no. 204; another example is illustrated in Gu Tao Ci Zi Liao Xuan Cui, Forbidden City Press, Beijing, 2005, p. 150, no. 128. Another Yongzheng-marked example was sold at Sotheby's New York, 16 September 2009, lot 211.
An underglaze-blue and copper-red 'sanduo' stembowl, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735); height 4 5/8 in., 11.7 cm diameter 6 1/2 in., 16.5 cm. Sold for 128,500 USD at Sotheby's New York, 16 September 2009, lot 211. Courtesy Sotheby's
Cf. my post: An underglaze-blue and copper-red 'sanduo' stemcup, Yongzheng mark and period (1723-1735)
In the absence of any other known examples without a mark or from other reign periods, it seem certain that the present example would also have had a Yongzheng mark to the interior of the foot which has now been effaced.
Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 1 June 2011, Convention Hall