Lot 207. A 'Jizhou' 'Papercut' 'Phoenix' Bowl, Southern Song Dynasty. Estimate US$ 6,000 — 8,000. Photo Sotheby's

with rounded sides supported on a low foot and rising to a vertically lipped rim to the interior, decorated in papercut resist with a pair of opposed long-tailed phoenix and three prunus blooms in dark-brown, all reserved against a ground dappled in caramel brown, the exterior covered in a rich brown glaze stopping neatly above the buff stoneware body. Diameter 4 in., 10.1 cm

Property from the collection of David and Nayda Utterberg

Provenance: T. Y. King & Sons Ltd., Hong Kong, 1986. 

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 16 Mar 2016, 10:00 AM