Lot 3711. A fine copper-red glazed waterpot, Mark and Period of Yongzheng (1723-1735); 6.2 cm., 2 3/8  in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Lot sold  1,840,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby’s

well potted with an ovoid body tapering from a short foot, the exterior covered with an even copper-red glaze, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark within a double circle.

Exhibited: Monochrome Ceramics of the Ming and Ch’ing Dynasties, Min Chiu Society at the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1977, cat. no. 15

Note: In its elegant bud-shape, this piece is inspired by Jun waterpots of the Song and Yuan dynasties. A closely related example was sold in these rooms, 20th May 1981, lot 788, and again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th May 2014, lot 3007. For a Song prototype, see one illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 1, London, 1994, pl. 393; and a Yuan example, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, published in A Panorama of Ceramics in the Collection of the National Palace Museum. Chün Ware, Taipei, 1999, pl. 97.

Sotheby’s. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 oct. 2014