Lot 20. A 'Yue' box and cover, Northern Song dynasty. Diameter 4 7/8  in., 12.4 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 30,000 USD. Unsold. Photo: Sotheby's. 

of circular form, the shallow domed cover lightly molded in relief with a scrolling peony spray, the outlines and veining of the petals incised, the sides undecorated, all supported on a splayed footrim, applied overall with an olive-green glaze (2). 

Provenance: Acquired in Hong Kong, November 1988. 

Note: Compare related 'Yue' boxes but with different decoration illustrated in Mary Tregear, Catalogue of Chinese Greenware in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Oxford, 1976, cat. nos 148, 151, 152 and 154.  

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015