Lot 227. A rare white stoneware trefoil-shaped dish, Late Tang-Five Dynasties, 12cm., 4 3/4 in. Estimate 4,000 - 6,000 GBP. Lot sold 26,900 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. 

the three large petal-shaped lobes rising from a short straight foot, covered overall in a white slip and a clear ivory glaze pooling in tear-drops on the exterior.

Provenance: Collection of C. T. Loo, no. 80659.

Exhibited: Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 352.

The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955, cat. no. 202.

Chinese Gold, Silver and Porcelain. The Kempe Collection, Asia House Gallery, New York, 1971, cat. no. 102, an exhibition touring the United States and shown also at nine other museums.

Literature: 'Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao', The Bulletin of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 25, 1953, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 34, fig. 28.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 356.

Bo Gyllensvärd, 'A Botanical Excursion in the Kempe Collection', Bulletin of the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 37, 1965, pl. 20.

The World's Great Collections. Oriental Ceramics, vol. 8, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 74.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 559.

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008