Lot 3005. A pair of café-au-lait-glazed barbed-rim dishes, Qianlong seal marks and period (1736-1795); 20.5 cm., 8 1/8 in. Estimate 300,000 — 400,000. Lot sold 475,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's 2011

each finely potted with shallow curved sides supported on a slightly splayed foot, rising to a flaring barbed rim, the exterior encircled by a raised fillet, covered overall in a rich and lustrous café-au-lait glaze of a glossy toffee-brown tone, the countersunk base glazed white, inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze blue. 

Provenance: Collection of H.M. Knight.

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 1979, lot 326.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011.