Lot 605. The Edward T. Chow Collection. A black-glazed russet-splashed bottle vase, Yuhuchun ping, Jin - Yuan dynasty (1115-1368); h. 29.7 cm, Japanese wood box. Lot Sold 152,400 HKD (Estimate 100,000 - 120,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Lot 607. The Edward T. Chow Collection. A Longquan celadon glazed incense burner, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279); h. 3.6 cm. Lot Sold 508,000 HKD (Estimate 400,000 - 600,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Lot 610. The Edward T. Chow Collection. A small shufu white-glazed 'lotus' dish, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); d. 13.6 cm, wood box inscribed by Deng Erya (1884-1954), wood stand. Lot Sold 635,000 HKD (Estimate 500,000 - 800,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Provenance: Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-80).
Sotheby's London, 16 December 1980, lot 287.

Literature: Cécile and Michel Beurdeley, La Céramique Chinoise, Fribourg, 1974, pl. 88.

Note: The term shufu refers to a type of glaze known as luanbai, which is more opaque than that of a qingbai glaze and is skily rather than glassy in texture. Shufu wares are identified by the presence of the characters shu and fu ('Privy Council') in their designs and were used during the Yuan dynasty for ceremonies at the Shumi Yuan, a ministry of civil and military affairs.

Compare two similarly designed shufu white-glazed dishes, one in the Brooklyn Museum, New York (acc. no. 37.135), the other published in John Ayers, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, vol. II, London, 1964, pl. LXVIII.  Compare also with a related shufu dish in the Place Museum, Taipei, see Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the Palace Museum, Supplement, Taipei, 1978, no.18. See another related shufu dish in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Catalogue of Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum, Beijing, 1979, no.65. See also a close example in Percival David Foundation, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Tokyo, 1982, no. 23.

Lot 611. The Edward T. Chow Collection. A shufu white-glazed moulded 'chrysanthmum' dish, Yuan dynasty (1279-1368); d. 16.4 cm. Lot Sold 38,100 HKD (Estimate 30,000 - 50,000 HKD). © Sotheby's 2023

Sotheby's. A Selection of Chinese Art from the Edward T. Chow Collection, Hong Kong, 6 December 2023