Lot 113. A small sky-blue ‘Jun’ dish, Song Dynasty (960-1127). Diameter 4 3/8  in., 11.1 cm. Estimate 20,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 40,000 USD. Photo Sotheby’s

the circular dish with shallow, gently rounded sides covered overall in an evenly applied opalescent blue glaze draining to a pale mushroom color at the rim and thickening just before stopping at the small neatly carved unglazed iron-brown foot ring, Japanese wood box (3). 

Provenance: Kitayama Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan.

Sotheby’s. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 16 sept. 2014