SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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A QINGBAI STEM BOWL AND STAND
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY
The bowl with gently rounded sides rising from a splayed pedestal foot to a petal-lobed rim, the stand formed as a shallow dish with central, stepped platform and a raised outer rim divided into six petals, raised on a spreading pedestal foot divided by incised lines and a notched rim into six petals, each centered by a ruyi-shaped cutout, both pieces covered with a clear glaze of blue-green tone
Cup 4¼ in. (10.8 cm.) diam., stand 5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection; Christie's New York, 23 March 1995, lot 71.

Lot Essay

Compare the cup and stand of this type discovered at the kiln sites and included in the exhibition, Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen Kilns (10th-17th Century), Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, 1992, no. 47. Another in the Baur Collection is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, Geneva, 1972, no. A 120; and two in the Tokyo National Museum are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, 1976, no. 442. Compare, also, the cup and stand of this type sold in our London rooms, 12 April 1986, lot 96.

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