Lot 11, A Henan 'Oil-Spot' Bowl, Song Dynasty. Estimate HK$40,000 — 60,000 (€4,678 - 7,017). Lot sold 137,500 HKD (15,523 EUR). Photo Sotheby's.

the shallow rounded sides rising from a knife-pared foot to a gently incurved rim, covered overall with a lustrous black-brown glaze suffused with glittering ‘oil spots’ of circular and star-shaped form in silvery iridescence, the glaze to the exterior thinning to a lighter caramel-brown tone, falling short of the foot, revealing the buff-coloured body, wood stand - 13 cm, 5 1/8  in.

Provenance: Nathan V. Hammer, New York, 1962.
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1962 (£195).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1962 (£250).

Note: Oil-spot bowls of shallow form and modelled with straight sides are unusual, although a slightly smaller one, from the Meiyintang collection, is illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2000, vol. 1, pl. 469, where the author notes that oil-spot bowls of similar form were excavated at the Zibo kilns in Shandong province, p. 258. 

Sotheby's. The Pilkington Collection of Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 06 avr. 2016, 10:00 AM