Lot 637. A pale café-au-lait glazed ogee-form bowl, Qianlong seal mark and period (1736-1795). Diameter 6  1/8  in., 15.7 cm. Estimate 10,000 — 15,000 USD. Lot Sold 32,500 USD. © Sotheby's. 

with deep flared sides and a constricted waist, resting on a short straight foot, the exterior glazed a light café-au-lait, the interior and recessed base glazed white, the base with a six-character seal mark in underglaze blue.

Provenance: Collection of E. G. Kostolany (d. by 1966).
Marchant, London.
Christie’s London, 18th June 2002, lot 54.

Literature: Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 153.

Note: For similar examples, see one sold in these rooms, 6th December 1989, lot 179, and two in our Hong Kong rooms: the first, 1st December 1977, lot 499; the second, 20th May 1986, lot 94. Compare also two pairs sold in our London rooms: 13th May 2015, lot 185; and 9th November 2016, lot 180.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 10 september 2019