Lot 138. A Longquan celadon 'Lotus' saucer dish, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 18.1cm high. Sold for US$31,875 (Estimate US$5,000 - 8,000). © Bonhams 2001-2023

The oviform body with rounded shoulder and slightly tapering short cylindrical neck with four simple applied double lug coil handles, all under an attractive lightly-crackled glaze that has a slightly green tone and which continues over the lip to the interior, and that stops unevenly just above the short buff-white stoneware spreading foot and flat base, the lightly domed cover surmounted by a bud-form finial.

Note: Similar jars of a larger size include one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Porcelain of the Jin and Tang Dynasties, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1996, pl. 153; one formerly in the collection of Mrs. Walter Sedgwick, included in the exhibition The Arts of the T'ang Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1955, cat. no. 177; one with a cover, in the collection of the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by Yutaka Mino in Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stoneware's, Toronto, 1974, pl. 31; and a fourth formerly in the collection of Sakamoto Goro, sold at Sotheby's New York, 13th September 2016, lot 7.

Lot 139. A rare silver-form Yingqing footed bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 16.1cm diam. Sold for US$5,100(Estimate US$6,000 - 9,000). © Bonhams 2001-2023

The extremely pale-blue almost white-glazed deep bowl carved and combed to the exterior with multiple slender chrysanthemum leaves rising to the five-petaled foliate rim, the center of the interior with a combed chrysanthemum flower-head roundel below lightly incised rows of petals rising to the interior rim.

Provenance: Blitz Oriental Art, Amsterdam, International Asian Art Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, March 2000.

Note: The present example is a classic example of Song dynasty ceramic modeled after silver ware, as the icy tone of the Qingbai glaze and the pure white porcelaneous body successfully mimics the appearance of silver. It shares many characteristics with Yueyao bowls of this type, such as the deeply rounded sides, everted foliate rim, the combed design on the interior, and the combed vertical 'ribs' on the exterior.

Lot 141. An extremely large Longquan chrysanthemum-petal conical bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); 21.8cm, silk wrap, Japanese wood box. Sold for US$35,655 (Estimate US$12,000 - 18,000). © Bonhams 2001-2023

The slightly rounded conical exterior delicately carved with thirty-two chrysanthemum or lotus petals and the interior plain, the pale kinuta-type glaze thinning to a mushroom tone at the rim and stopping just above the orange-fired grey foot rim, the base and foot interior glazed.

Provenance: T.M.C. Collection
The Linyushanren Collection
Christie's New York, 22 March 2019, lot 1714.

Note: With the discovery of the 'Sinan' wreck, a Chinese ship probably destined for Japan sometime around 1323 CE and discovered off the Korean coast in 1975, with a cargo that included similar bowls, it is most likely that this ceramic type was made for both local use and export. See Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off Sinan, Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 15 top and bottom, for examples.

Compare also smaller bowl, illustrated by Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, 1994, no. 543.

For another example, see Christie's New York, 15 - 16 March 2015, New York, lot 3248