the body of square section rising from a short straight circular foot to a tapering circular neck with a lipped rim, molded with the 'Eight Trigrams' to each of the four sides, covered overall in a lustrous celadon glaze, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Acquired in the 1940s, and thence by descent.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017