Lot 18. A small marbled bowl, Tang Dynasty (618-907), 3 1/8 in., 8 cm. Estimate 3,000 -- 5,000 USD. Lot sold 3,600 USD. © Sotheby's.

the wide shallow sides rising to an everted mouth and supported on a ring foot, applied entirely with a finely swirled brown and white clay body veneer, covered beneath an amber glaze imitating wood, the interior with traces of cinnabar red pigmente.

Provenance: The collection was formed in China in the 1920s - 50s..