An iron-red decorated 'Immortals' bowl, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period (1662-1722). Estimate HK$1,500,000 - HK$2,000,000 ($194,454 - $259,272). Price Realized HK$1,840,000 ($238,530). Photo Christie's Image LTD 2015 

The bowl is finely painted around the exterior in shades of iron-red with fourteen Immortals and two deer highlighted with black enamel, one figure conjuring a black and white crane from a double gourd, also including Shoulao standing holding a staff and Dongfang Shuo holding a peach branch over his shoulder, the Immortals holding a root-wood staff, lingzhi scepter, bowl of fruits, fly-whisk and two holding an open scroll with yin yang symbol, the details of their faces, hair and clothes picked out in black enamel, the interior with white glaze. 6 3/4 in. (17.2 cm.) diam., box

Notes: A similar Immortal bowl with fourteen figures, one being an attendant, all between underglaze-blue double-lines, from the Qing Court Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 118; and another was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1988, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 79.

Another Kangxi-marked bowl similarly decorated in iron red with fourteen Immortals was offered at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 December 2008, lot 2550. 

Christie's. IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 2 December 2015, Convention Hall