Lot 867. A very rare and magnificent Ge foliate dish, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty (1127-1368). Diameter 14 cm. Estimated price €200.000 - €250.000. Result: €1.100.000. © Lempertz.

With flaring sides rising to a notched rim divided into six lobes, on a recessed base, covered overall with a lustrous glaze of pale and creamy grayish-green tone suffused with a wide network of crackles stained black (tiexian, iron-wire) and a very slight crackle stained golden brown (jinsi, golden thread) below the rim. Six spur marks to the base exposing the dark brown body. Metal-mount to the rim.

Provenance: Collection Friedrich Otto Hasse (1886-1964), Bremen, acquired in the 1920s, and thence by descent.

Literature: Compare very similar plates in form and glaze, in: He Zhengguang, Song Yuan taoci daquan Chinese ceramics, Song Yuan dynasty, Taipei 1991, p. 463, and in: Selection of Ge Ware. The Palace Museum Collection and Archaeological Discoveries. Beijing 2017, no. 50, 52 and in: The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty, Beijing 1996, vol. 2, no. 74ff.