Lot 634. A pair of carved 'Yaozhou' bowls, Northern Song dynasty (960-1127). Estimate 30,000 — 40,000 HKD. Lot sold 37,500 HKD (4,332 EUR).  Photo: Sotheby's.

each with deep rounded sides rising from a short foot to a flared rim, the exterior freely carved with fluid lines simulating petals, the interior with six vertical lines encircling the recessed cavetto from the rim, covered overall save for the footring with a warm celadon glaze; 11.7 and 11.8 cm, 4 5/8   in.

Provenance: Bluet‎t & Sons, London, by repute.
Colle‎ction of Countess M.L. von Callenberg, by repute.