Asian Art II - 8th December 2020
Lot 729
A CHINESE QINGBAI BOWL
Estimate £2,000 - £2,500
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Description
A CHINESE QINGBAI BOWL
SONG DYNASTY
Rising from a tapering foot to a gently flaring rim, the interior incised with twenty-two roundels enclosing stylised scrolls, decorated in a pale blue glaze which pools around the foot, the base left unglazed, 18.5cm.
Provenance: formerly a Hong Kong private collection; purchased from Susan Chen & Co on 25th July 1985; sold by Marchant on 19th June 1991; formerly the collection of a titled English gentleman.
Cf. J Mayuyama, Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol.1, p.148, no.433 for a comparable bowl; see also M Crick, Chinese Trade Ceramics for South-East Asia, Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Muller, pp.164-165, no.74 for another related item.