Lot 220. A white stoneware prunus-flower bowl, Tang-Five Dynasties, 12.5cm, 4 7/8 in. Estimate 2,000 - 3,000 GBP. Lot sold 10,625 GBP. Photo: Sotheby's. 

of metalware form, each of the five deep curved lobes springing from a short straight foot, covered overall in a white slip and an ivory-white glaze save for the footring revealing the fine white body.

Provenance: 'HP' paper label to base.

Exhibited: Oriental Ceramic Society, 1940's, no.19.

Literature: 'Hsing-Yao and Ting-Yao', The Bulletin of Far Eastern Antiquities, no. 25, 1953, Stockholm, 1953, pl. 27, fig. 22.

Bo Gyllensvärd, Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, pl. 326.

Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, The Museum of Art and Far Eastern Antiquities in Ulricehamn, Ulricehamn, 2002, pl. 531.

Sotheby's. Masterpieces of Chinese Precious Metalwork, Early Gold and Silver; Early Chinese White, Green and Black Wares, London, 14 May 2008