Lot 3555. A red and brown-lacquer foliate dish, Song-Yuan dynasty (960-1368); 7 in. (17.7 cm.) wide. Estimate HKD 150,000 - HKD 200,000. Price Realized HKD 175,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013 

The prunus-shaped dish has a flat, countersunk base and shallow rounded sides rising to a straight rim. It is lacquered in the interior in red and on the exterior in dark brown. The base is inscribed with an illegible mark in red lacquer, Japanese wood box. 

Note: A very similar dish, also with distinctive crackles to the lacquer around the edge of the dish, is in the Museum of Asian Art, San Francisco, and illustrated in Hai-Wai Yi-Chen, Chinese Art in Overseas Collections, Lacquerware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, p. 52, no. 50, dated to the Yuan dynasty.

Christie's. Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art (Including The Su Zhu An Collection of Inkstones), Hong Kong, 27 November 2013