Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 27 November 2019
A fine copper-red and underglaze-blue decorated ‘sanduo’ stem bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period (1723-1735)
Lot 2904. A fine copper-red and underglaze-blue decorated ‘sanduo’ stem bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735); 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000 (USD 38,533 - USD 64,221). Price realised HKD 562,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019
The exterior of the bowl is painted in copper red of a soft strawberry tone with a peach, pomegranate and persimmon (sanduo) borne on leafy branches painted in underglaze blue. The centre of the interior is inscribed with the reign mark, box.
Note: This design is found on a similar Yongzheng-marked stem bowl in the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Treasures of the Palace Musuem - 36 - Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Hong Kong, p. 223, no. 204. Another is illustrated in Gu Tao Ci Zi Liao Cui, Beijing, 2005, 150, no. 128.