Lot 140. A carved 'Ding' 'dragon' dish, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Diameter 5 in., 12.6 cm. Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD. Lot sold: 138,600 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

finely potted with flared sides rising from a flat base to a six-lobed rim, the interior swiftly incised with a sinuous chilong amongst foliate scrolls, applied overall with a creamy ivory glaze, the lobed rim bound in copper.

Property from the Studio of Serendipitous Encounters.

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 26th-27th October 1993, lot 19.

Collection of Chia-Shi Lin (1930-2020), and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 17 march 2021