Lot 3118. A Yaozhou carved 'rhinoceros' dish, Northern Song-Jin Dynasty (960-1234)8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 120,000 - HKD 160,000 (USD 15,546 - USD 20,728). Price realised HKD 100,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014.

The dish is carved to the interior with a shaped cartouche enclosing a recumbent rhinoceros gazing up at a full moon, encircled by scrolls beneath the well, covered inside and out with a glossy olive-green glaze pooling at the recesses, the base and foot unglazed, box.

Literature: Tan Dan-jiong, History of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, Taipei, 1985, p. 496

Christie's. Chinese Ceramics From The Yangdetang Collection, 30 November 2016, Hong Kong, HKCEC Grand Hall