Lot 117. Property from Carnegie Museum of Art, Sold to Benefit the Acquisition Fund. Two 'Yaozhou' celadon-glazed hexafoil dishes, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Diameter 13.4 cm. Lot Sold 38,100 USD (Estimate 7,000 - 9,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2025

Provenance: Collection of Sarah Mellon Scaife (1903-1965), prior to 1961.

Gifted to the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1961 (accession nos. 61.18.2&3).

Note: A hexafoil Yaozhou dish of comparable size is published in Songdai Yaozhou yaozhi / The Yaozhou Kiln Site of the Song Period, Beijing, 1998, p. 212, fig. 110:10, and see also one from the collection of Hirano Kotoken, sold twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 11th May 1983, lot 54 and 8th April 2023, lot 3502.