A COBALT-BLUE PAINTED POTTERY BOWL TANG DYNASTY

the rounded sides rising from a splayed foot to a flared rim, the interior decorated with six florets in rich splashes of cobalt-blue and amber-brown, all below a band of irregular blue streaks at the rim, covered overall in a transparent straw-coloured glaze falling short of the sides on the exterior, revealing the buff-coloured body

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Toeg, until 1963.
Sotheby's London, 3rd December 1963, lot 64 (£85).
Bluett & Sons Ltd, London, 1963 (£85).
Collection of Roger Pilkington (1928-69), from 1963 (£85).