NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A QINGBAI FLOWER-FORM BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl is potted with slightly rounded sides flaring widely to the petal-cut rim corresponding to the six petals of the fluidly carved and combed flowerhead that swirls outward from the center. The bowl is covered inside and out with a pale blue glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone on the slightly tapered ring foot. The base is unglazed.
7¾ in. (19.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Sotheby's New York, 30 May 1990, lot 88.

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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.

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