Lot 6, A ‘Cizhou’ carved ‘floral’ bowl, Song dynasty. Estimate HK$8,000 — 10,000 (€936 - 1,169). Lot sold 87,500 HKD (9,878 EUR).  Photo Sotheby's.

with rounded sides supported on a short knife-pared foot, the interior freely carved with a floral spray with combed petals and leaves, all within a line border, covered overall with a creamy glaze falling short of the foot revealing the buff mottled body - 9 cm, 3 1/2  in.

Provenance: Entwistle, 1962.  
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1962 (£30). 
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1962 (£45).

Note: A bowl decorated with similar combed design was excavated at the Cizhou kilns in Guantai, Henan province, illustrated inThe Cizhou Kiln Site at Guantai, Beijing, 1997, pl. XII, no. 1; another is illustrated in Robert Schmidt, Chinesische Keramik, Frankfurt am Main, 1924, pl. 40a; and a fragment of a bowl recovered from Zibo in Shandong province, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition Kiln Sites of Ancient China, London, 1980, cat. no. 432.

Sotheby's. The Pilkington Collection of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 06 avr. 2016, 10:00 AM