the bulbous pear-shaped body set over a short, straight foot and narrowing dramatically to a cylindrical neck and a lipped rim encircling the mouth, the full lower body painted in underglaze-red with three mythical beasts each sitting on its haunches, emanating flame-like wisps of qi, its body in variegated liver-red tones, the counter-sunk base unglazed.

Provenance: Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 12 sept. 2018, 10:30 AM