Lot 163. A celadon, copper-red and underglaze-blue yen-yen vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 17 3/4  in., 45.1 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 USD. Lot sold 43,750 USD. © Sotheby's.

the body of baluster form rising to a trumpet neck with everted rim, boldly painted in strong tones of underglaze blue and red with a scene of a traveling immortal and acolyte riding on a donkey, approaching a local with a basket of lingzhi who points the way, a grove of pine trees with a pair of cranes overhead, all against a lustrous celadon ground, the base with double circles in underglaze blue .

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 27th April 2003, lot 155.