Lot 97. Two white-glazed foliate dishes, Five Dynasties (607-960). Diameter 4 1/2  in., 11.4 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot sold 10,000 USD © Sotheby's.

each dish molded with steep, slightly flared, fluted sides and supported on a slightly splayed foot of wedge section, the body covered in a vitreous white glaze, one base with unglazed section revealing the body turned a buff color in firing (2). 

Provenance: Collection of Gale R. Blosser (1913-2009), acquired at Kalk Bay Antiques, Cape Town, 1970s.

Note: A dish of this form, glaze and dimension excavated from Bin County Shaanxi Province is illustrated in Yaoci tulu, Beijing, 1957, pls. 28 and 29.