A Ding foliate-rimmed bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Estimate 1,000,000-1,500,000 ($130,000-190,000. Unsold. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The bowl is formed with a slightly everted folitate rim and is freely carved to the interior with a large lotus bloom and several smaller blossoms growing from leafy stems. It is covered in an attractive ivory glaze which pools within the crevices of the decoration, stopping at the mouth rim to expose the fine white body. 9º in. (23.5 cm.) diam., box

Note: A very similar bowl from The Falk Collection, also with a six-lobedfoliate rim was sold at Christie’s New York, 16 October 2001, lot 52. Another example is in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, p. 60, no. 52.

CHRISTIE'S. THE IMPERIAL SALE & IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 3 June 2015, Convention Hall