Lot 37. A set of four gray pottery wares, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); 4in (10.1cm) width of dragon cups; 7 7/8in (20cm) length of lobed oval tray; 6in (16.5cm) width of bowl with flange (4). Sold for US$7,012.50. © Bonhams 2001-2023

A pair of small cups with dragon handles, a quad-lobed oval dish, and a shallow bowl with trefoil flange handle, each with burnished black 'charcoal' surface.

Note: Compare the pair of gray pottery dragon-head handled cups of hexagonal shape on an oval lobbed gray pottery dish unearthed from a Yuan dynasty tomb near Datong city, Shanxi province, illustrated in Wenwu, 1987, no. 6, p. 88.

A quad-lobed oval tray of this form but made of celadon jade, in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated on the museum's website and described as Liao to Song dynasty. Compare also the Junyao dish of very similar quad-lobed oval form in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the exhibition catalog Pinpai gushi: Qianlong huangdi de wenwu shoucang yu baozhuang yishu (Story of a Brand Name: The Collection and Packaging Aesthetics of Emperor Qianlong in the Eighteenth Century), Taipei, 2017, p. 61, described as Jin-Yuan dynasty.