NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-EARLY 12TH CENTURY

A qingbai bowl with similar carved decoration set against a roulette-stippled ground recovered from a late Northern Song-period tomb datable to 1109 in Jinxixian, Jiangxi province, is illustrated by R. Tan, et al. in Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 28, p. 52. Two further qingbai bowls of similar shape and decoration include one in the Carl Kempe Collection and one in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, both illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, vol. II, Stockholm, 1970, pls. 13a and 13b, respectively. See, also, the qingbai bowl from the Robert Barron Collection sold at Christie’s New York, 30 March 2005, lot 309.