Lot 750. A small Junyao saucer dish, Song Dynasty (AD 960-1279); . Estimate $2,000 – $3,000. Price Realized $22,500. © Christie’s Image Ltd 2014

The dish has widely flared sides and is covered inside and out with a crackled glaze of milky sky-blue color that thins to mushroom on the edges of the everted rim and falls irregularly to the edge of the foot ring. 4½ in. (11.5 cm.) diam.

Property from the Collection of Charles and Margot Nesbitt, Oklahoma City.

Christie’s. FINE CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 18 – 19 September 2014, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.