Lot Essay
A very similar bowl from the collection of J.C. Thomson was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 16 June - 23 July 1960, pl. 75, no. 216. A slightly deeper Qingbai bowl carved with the same design is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, no. 430.