Lot 778. An early Yueyao-type reticulated vessel, China, Three Kingdoms period (AD 220-265); ; 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) diameter. Estimate $3,000 - $5,000. Price Realized $21,250. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The body pierced with five rows of circles, those in the upper row between linear borders where two herringbone-incised strap handles are applied, covered inside and out with a thin glaze of grey-green color ending above the similarly pierced, flat base, box.

Provenance: The Collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, New York, acquired in Hong Kong, 1989. 

Note: See the perforated vessel of similar form, but raised on a spreading foot, and with arched handles, which is in the Ma'anshan Office for Management of Cultural Relics, and illustrated by Zhang Bai in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 8, Beijing, 2008, no. 12, where it is described as a censer, and dated to Three Kingdoms, Wu Kingdom (AD 220-280).

Oxford thermoluminescence test no. P114n75 is consistent with the dating of this lot. 

Christie's. THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT HATFIELD ELLSWORTH PART IV - CHINESE WORKS OF ART: METALWORK, SCULPTURE AND EARLY CERAMICS, 20 March 2015, New York, Rockefeller Plaza.