Lot 522. A small carved Yaozhou bowl, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127); diameter 3 3/4 in., 9.5 cm. Estimate 4,000 — 6,000 USD. Lot sold 27,500 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

with rounded sides curving inward to a wide mouth with a scalloped neckline, freely carved around the body with leafy sprays beneath a lustrous bubble-suffused olive-green glaze.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th October 1991, lot 5.

Sotheby's. Harmony of Form, Serenity of Color: A Private Collection of 'Song' Ceramics, New York, 23 march 2011