Lot 357. A Jizhou ‘papercut’ 'Phoenix' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 11.8 cm, 4 5/8  in. Estimate 20,000 - 30,000 HKD. Lot sold 25,000 HKD (2,809 EUR). © Sotheby's.

rising to an indented rim, resist-decorated in papercut with phoenix and prunus blooms against a speckled caramel-brown ground, the exterior covered in a tortoiseshell glaze.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 31st October 1995, lot 334 (not illustrated).