A 'Jizhou' splashed bowl, Southern Song Dynasty. Estimate  150,000 — 250,000 HKD. Lot sold 625,000 HKD. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

potted with a slightly rounded conical body with steep sides rising to a thin concave groove and a slightly everted rim, covered overall with a black glaze and freely decorated with cream-coloured splashes running freely in different directions, the unglazed knife-pared foot revealing a light buff clay body; 12.3 cm., 4 7/8  in.

Provenance: Collection of Walter Bareiss (1919-2007), Greenwich, acquired in 1996.
Zetterquist Galleries, New York, 2009.

Exhibition: Tang to Ming Chinese Ceramics, Zetterquist Galleries, New York, 2009.

Sotheby's. Contemporary Literati: Curiosity, Hong Kong, 05 avr. 2015