Lot 611. A pair of 'Longquan' celadon-glazed bird feeders, Southern Song-Yuan dynasty. Width 2 in., 5 cm. Estimate 5,000 — 7,000 USD. Unsold. Courtesy Sotheby's.

each of lotus form with deep rounded sides rising to an incurved rim, the sides molded with concentric layers of overlapping petals, the shoulder applied to one side with a small loop handle, covered overall with a thick sea-green glaze, the base burnt orange in the firing (2)

Provenance: Collection of Captain S.N. Ferris Luboshez, USN, (1896-1984), acquired in China in the mid-1940s.
Sotheby's New York, 18th November 1982, lot 85.
Kaikodo, New York. 

Exhibited: Chinese Art from the Ferris Luboshez Collection, University of Maryland Art Gallery, 1972, cat. no. 119.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 20 march 2019