Two Qingbai Carved Shallow Dishes

SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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Two Qingbai Carved Shallow Dishes
Song dynasty, 11th-12th century
The larger of thinly potted, mallow form, the rounded sides formed as eight petals rising from the concave base, the convex center carved with a lotus spray, all but the rim covered with a transparent glaze of good pale blue tone; the other with slightly rounded flaring sides, the convex interior carved with a foliate spray, all but the rim covered with a transparent glaze of good pale blue tone
5 7/8 and 4 13/16in. (14.9 and 12.3cm.) diam., one stand
Falk Collection nos. 77 and 220. (2)

Lot Essay

A qingbai dish of the same mallow form as the Falk example is in the Shangyu County Cultural Relics Bureau, Zhejiang province, and is illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji, (16), Song Yuan Qingbaici, Shanghai, 1984, no. 56. Like the Falk example, this dish has an unglazed mouth rim as a result of being fired upside down. Compare, also, the qingbai dish with unglazed rim published by B. Gyllensvärd Chinese Ceramics in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1964, no. 548.

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