HONG KONG.- Sothebys Deputy Chairman and International Head of Chinese Ceramics Nicolas Chow holds a Blue-and-white palace bowl with melons, Ming dynasty, Chenghua mark and period during a Sothebys press preview in Hong Kong, China 25 February 2011. The...

A superb blue and white palace bowl, mark and period of Chenghua masterfully potted with smooth rounded sides, gracefully rising from a tapered foot to a slightly flared rim, superbly painted in characteristic soft tones of cobalt-blue in outlines infilled...