Two Qingbai Bowls

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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Two Qingbai Bowls
Southern Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
One of conical form raised on a flat foot, the interior molded with two phoenixes below a keyfret band, covered overall with a transparent glaze of good pale blue tone; the other of shallow rounded form, the interior carved with a central flowerhead below three smaller flowers, covered overall with a transparent glaze of good pale blue tone; together with a qingbai-type bowl, Yuan dynasty, the deep sides raised on a neatly cut ring foot, the exterior carved with two bands of petals, covered inside and out with a pale blue glaze below the unglazed rim
6½, 6 7/8 and 5 7/8in. (16.5, 17.5 and 14.9cm.) diam.
Falk Collection nos. 89, 67 and 90. (3)

Lot Essay

A bowl of the same size and decoration as the conical bowl is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing and is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, 16, Song Yuan Qingbaici, Shanghai, 1984, no. 104, where it is dated to the Song dynasty. Birds of similar style appear on the top of a qingbai box excavated in 1991 from a Southern Song hoard dated AD 1236 at Suizhu, Jinyucun in Sichuan province; see Newly Discovered Southern Song Ceramics - A Thirteenth-Century "Time Capsule", Tokyo, 1998, p. 73, no. 77.

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