Lot 3048. A copper-red-decorated 'sanduo' bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1723-1735); 4 ¾ in. (12 cm.) diam., box. Estimate HKD 150,000 - HKD 260,000. Price realised HKD 350,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2020.

The bowl is finely potted with rounded sides rising to a slightly flared rim, and decorated on the exterior in copper-red of crushed-strawberry tone with the sanduo, a peach, a pomegranate and a persimmon.

Provenance: A Swiss private collection, purchased in Japan in the 1950s by repute, and thence by descent within the family
Acquired in Zurich, 2016.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 30 November 2020