Two Small Qingbai Vessels

SONG DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

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Two Small Qingbai Vessels
Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
One a thinly potted bowl with rounded sides carved in the center with a foliate spray, all but the rim covered with a transparent glaze of good pale blue tone; the other a small thinly potted stem cup covered with a very pale blue glaze; together with a flower-form conical bowl, Yaozhou kilns, Northern Song dynasty, the pale grey stoneware covered with a transparent glaze of pale blue-grey tone falling short of the foot ring
4 1/8, 3 5/8 and 4 13/16in. (10.5, 9.2 and 12.2cm.), one stand, two boxes
Small bowl: Falk Collection no. 64. (3)

Lot Essay

The flower-form bowl is delicately potted and then the deep foliations put in by hand. Vessels of this type are notable for their thin potting and the sharp V-shape of the lobing indentation. Two pairs of Yaozhou bowls of this shape are illustrated in the catalogue of Special Exhibition - Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo National Museum, 1994, p. 100, nos. 144 and 145. A pair of similar bowls excavated from a tomb in 1962 are illustrated in Zhongguo Wenwu Jinghua Daquan, Taoci juan, Taipei, 1993, p. 318, no. 501. And two bowls of this type were published in The Masterpieces of Yaozhou Ware, The Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1997, nos. 20 and 21. Compare, also, another similar bowl illustrated by R. Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. I, London, no. 404.

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