Lot 915. A powder-blue-ground, iron-red, and gilt 'fish' rouleau vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 18 5/8  in., 47.3 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD. Lot sold 7,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the cylindrical body rising from a low foot to a narrow columnar neck with a galleried rim, covered overall with a soufflé blue glaze, five large iron-red carp swimming around the body amidst small gilt fish, crabs, waterweeds, and blossoms, the shoulder with traces of blossoms and auspicious emblems in gilt, the neck painted in gilt with shou characters and wanzi, the base and interior glazed white. 

Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
Sotheby Parke-Bernet, 4th November 1978, lot 6. 

Sotheby's.  Important Chinese Art, New York, 11 september 2019