A purple-glazed carved alms bowl, signed Chen Guozhi, Qing dynasty. Estimate  50,000 — 70,000 HKD.  Lot Sold. 62,500 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

finely potted with a compressed globular body, crisply carved in high relief, one side with two magpies perched on a flowering prunus tree extending its gnarled branches across the exterior of the bowl, the other side with a poem, the countersunk base impressed in positive script with a four-character mark, chen guo zhi zuo, applied overall with a purple glaze of rich lilac colour, wood stand; 14.5 cm., 5 3/4  in.

Note: Other colour-glazed works by Chen Guozhi include a light turquoise-glazed vessel, illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 340; and a yellow-glazed 'Landscape' panel dated 1829, sold in these rooms 27th May 2014, lot 637, from the collection of Edward T. Chow.

Sotheby's. CHINESE ART. 01 JUNE 2015 - 02 JUNE 2015 | 3:15 PM HKT - HONG KONG