Lot 3147. Two carved cinnabar-lacquer bowls, Ming dynasty, Jiajing period (1522-1566); 10.8 cm., 4 1/4 in. Estimate 180,000 — 250,000 HKD. Lot Sold 325,000 HKD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

each of deep rounded form resting on a short foot, carved to one bowl with leafy fruiting branches of peach, pomegranate, and lychee, all reserved on a diaper ground; the other similarly decorated with two pairs of songbirds perched upon leafy branches of fruiting lychee on a diaper ground, both friezes between lotus lappets above the foot and a key-fret band at the everted rim, and a further key-fret around the foot.

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 28th October 2002, lot 591.