Lot 391. A fine Junyao blue-glazed dish, Song dynasty (960-1279); 18.5 cm, 7 1/4  in. Estimate 120,000-150,000 HKD. Lot sold 300,000 HKD (33,713 EUR). © Sotheby's. 

with shallow rounded sides rising from an unglazed neatly pared foot, covered overall in a lavender-blue glaze thinning to a mushroom tone at the rim and pooling around the foot, the base with three spur marks.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 4th June 1986, lot 46. 

Note: Dishes of comparable size include one from the Victor Reinaecker and Enid and Brodie Lodge collections, sold in our London rooms on 11th July 1978, lot 126; and another from the collection of Lord Cunliffe, sold in our New York rooms on 17th September 1998, lot 200.