A Ming-style copper-red 'three fish' stem bowl, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 釉裏紅三魚紋高足盌 《大清雍正年製》款

Christie's Hong Kong, 8th October 1990, lot 559.

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香港佳士得1990年10月8日，編號559

See a few published examples of this type, one illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 97; and another from the T.Y. Chao Collection, included in the exhibition Ming and Ch’ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1978, cat. no. 75, sold in our London rooms, 8th July 1974, lot 280 and then again in our Hong Kong rooms, 19th May 1987, lot 264. Compare also a closely related example, previously in the Meiyintang Collection, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 8th April 2013, lot 36.

For a Ming prototype of this design, see a Xuande reign-marked stem bowl, excavated from the Xuande stratum of the Ming imperial kiln site, and included in the exhibition Jingdezhen chutu Yuan Ming guanyao ciqi / Yuan’s and Ming’s Imperial Porcelain Unearthed from Jingdezhen, Yan-Huang Art Museum, Beijing, 1999, cat. no. 193; and another in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Mingdai Xuande guanyao jinghua tezhan tulu / Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Selected Hsüan-te Imperial Porcelains of the Ming Dynasty, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1998, cat. no. 99, together with two similar stem cups of smaller size, cat. nos 81 and 87.