AN INCISED QINGBAI `FISH' BOWL

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY

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AN INCISED QINGBAI 'FISH' BOWL
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH CENTURY
The thinly potted bowl has conical sides rising to the rim carefully notched at six points along the edge. The interior is incised with two fish and a lotus blossom amidst waves. The bowl is covered inside and out with a pale blue-tinged glaze.
7 7⁄8 in. (19.9 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Kaikodo, New York.

Literature

Kaikodo Journal, New York, Autumn 1998, no. 63.

Exhibited

New York, Kaikodo, 1998.

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Lot Essay

It is rare to find fish used in the designs of incised qingbai wares. A qingbai bowl incised with a pair of fish on a combed wave ground, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Song Yuan Qingbai ci, Tokyo and Shanghai, 1984, figs. 106 and 107.

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