A russet-splashed bowl, Northern Song Dynasty. Photo Sotheby's

of conical form, rising from a short foot to an everted rim, the interior splashed with streaks of russet reserved against the lustrous black ground, the exterior glazed in reverse with black streaks on a matte russet ground ending just above the foot. Diameter 4 3/4  in. 12.2 cm. Estimation 10,000 — 25,000 USD

PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th-21st May 1980, lot 16.

NOTE: A splashed bowl of similar form, from the Scheinman collection, was included in the exhibition Hare's Fur, Tortoiseshell, and Partridge Feathers, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Mass., 1996, cat. no. 38b

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art. New York | 17 sept. 2013 - http://www.sothebys.com