Lot 3163. A Jizhou paper-cut resist-decorated tea bowl, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279). Estimate HKD 100,000 - HKD 150,000 (USD 12,949 - USD 19,424). Unsold. © Christie's Image Ltd 2016.

The interior is decorated in resist technique with paper-cut decoration of three quatrelobed flower heads reserved in brown against the variegated, milky buff ground. The exterior is covered in a ‘tortoise-shell’ glaze of dark brown colour mottled in beige falling short of a knife-cut edge above the low, narrow foot ring. 4 5/8 in. (11.6 cm.) diam., box

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