Lot 90. Three 'Jizhou' bowls, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter of largest 4 1/2  in., 11.4 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 9,000 USD. Lot sold 8,125 USD. © Sotheby's.

each with rounded sides rising in two of the bowls to a slightly indented ridged vertical rim and in the other to a slightly inverted rim, all supported on a round bottomed base with wedge-sectioned footrim, covered in a dark brown glaze, one painted in overglaze with a magpie and prunus branch, one with the moon and a plum blossom and the third with 'hawksbill speckles' (3).