Lot 29. A rare carved 'Cizhou' rice measure, Northern Song dynasty; 10.2cm., 4in. Estimate 3,000 — 4,000 GBP (4,070 - 5,426 EUR). Lot sold 15,000 GBP. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

the deep rounded sides rising to an incurved rim with double fillets, covered overall in an opaque white slip, the exterior boldly carved with concentric U-shaped grooves filled with brown glaze, covered overall in a clear glaze leaving the foot unglazed revealing the grey body, Japanese wood box. Quantité: 2.

Provenance: Mayuyama & Co. Ltd, Tokyo.

Note: Cizhou bowl carved with concentric circles from the Moore Memorial collection in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, was included in the exhibition Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in Northern China. Tz’u-chou Type Wares, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1980, cat. no. 12, where it is compared to a fragment from the Quhe kiln site in Dengfeng county, Henan province, fig. 21, and two bowls, one in the Charles B. Hoyt collection, fig. 22, and the other in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, fig. 23.

Bowl, 11th century, Cizhou ware; stoneware with white slip and transparent glaze; probably Dengfengxian kilns, 3 1/4 x 5 in. (8.3 x 12.7 cm), Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore, 1954.49.53. © 2018 The Yale University Art Gallery. 

Bowl with willow basket pattern, Song dynasty (960–1279). Northern stoneware, Cizhou ware, 7.8 x 13.2 cm (3 1/16 x 5 3/16 in.). Bequest of Charles Bain Hoyt—Charles Bain Hoyt Collection, 50.1179 © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Sotheby's. The Soul of Japanese Aesthetics – The Tsuneichi Inoue Collection, Londres, 13 mai 2015, 10:00 AM