Lot 176. A 'Yaozhou' Celadon 'floral' bowl, Northern Song-Jin Dynasty (960-1234). Diameter 8 1/4 in., 20.8 cm. Estimate 18,000 — 24,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's of conical form with everted rim resting on a low knife-pared foot, the interior...

A pair of doucai gilt-decorated 'floral' bowls, Xianfeng six-character marks and of the period. Photo:Bonhams. Each bowl elegantly potted with rounded sides rising steeply from a short straight foot, finely enamelled around the exterior with a band of...

A powder-blue-ground 'floral' bowl. Mark and period of Yongzheng. Photo Sotheby's the deep rounded sides rising to a flared mallow-lobed rim, the exterior divided into six sections by spiralling petals radiating out from the base, each enclosing white...