Lot 804. A Cizhou cut-slip deep bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); 4 ¼ in. (11 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 3,000 - USD 5,000. Price realised USD 43,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018.

The rounded body is decorated with four rows of tiny striations cut through a dark brown slip to reveal the white slip beneath, all below a band of white slip inside and outside the rim, and all under a clear glaze that also covers the interior and falls short of the foot ring exposing the grey body, Japanese wood box signed by the renowned scholar Fujio Koyama (1900-1975).

Japanese wood box signed by the renowned scholar Fujio Koyama (1900-1975).