Lot 78. A cobalt-blue painted pottery bowl, Tang dynasty (618-907). Estimate 50,000 — 70,000 HKD (5,645 - 7,902 EUR). Lot sold 87,500 HKD (9,878 EUR). Photo: Sotheby's.

the rounded sides rising from a splayed foot to a flared rim, the interior decorated with six florets in rich splashes of cobalt-blue and amber-brown, all below a band of irregular blue streaks at the rim, covered overall in a transparent straw-coloured glaze falling short of the sides on the exterior, revealing the buff-coloured body; 9.8 cm, 3 7/8  in.

Provenance: Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Toeg, until 1963. 
Sotheby's London, 3rd December 1963, lot 64 (£85). 
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1963 (£85).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1963 (£85).