Lot 127. A fine and rare pair of Yaozhou foliate-shaped bowls, Northern Song dynasty-Jin Dynasty (960-1234); 10.7cm (4 1/4in) and 10.9cm diam. (2). Sold for €6,400  Photo Bonhams.

Each of foliate shape, with shallow sides divided into ten lobes, the interior decorated with a molded design of scattered flower sprays, each lobe with a stylised floral scroll, covered overall with a translucent olive-green glaze suffused with fine crackles, the bases unglazed.

Provenance: Collection of Jürgen L. Fischer (d. 2013), Baden Baden, acquired

Note: A nearly identical pair of flower-shaped bowls from the Bondy Collection was sold by Paul Cassirer and Hugo Helbing, Berlin, 18 and 19 May 1927, lots 65 and 66. A similar piece described as a brushwasher, is illustrated in Shanxi Tongchuan Yaozhou yao, Beijing, 1965, pl.X, fig.8. Compare also with a similar Yaozhou dish divided into 16 instead of 10 petals from the Meiyintang Collection, published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume I, London, 1994, no.434.

Bonhams - Cornette de Saint Cyr. CHINESE ART FROM A GERMAN FAMILY COLLECTION, Paris, 26 October 2023