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Two qingbai deep bowls A qingbai glazed jar and cover
Song dynasty Northern Song dynasty
The first thinly potted with a deep curving well supported on a Of globular shape raised on a spreading foot while four cloud collar-
narrow foot ring, the exterior walls incised with C-scrolls and shaped handles rise from the shoulder, the cylindrical neck incised
combed lines forming flower heads and leafy branches, the limpid with horizontal bands and the body incised with six groups of vertical
blue-green glaze applied everywhere except the rim area; the second lines visible beneath the pale gray-green glaze covering the exterior
bowl of inverted bell form with a flared rim and raised on a narrow walls and the top of the flat cover finished with concentric rings.
foot, the walls without decoration except for an incised line below 6 1/2in (16.5cm) height including cover
the exterior rim, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces $1,000 - 1,500
except the cinnamon-burnt rim.
6 1/2in and 6 1/4in (16.5 and 16cm) diameters For a qingbai jar and cover of similar shape and decoration in the Kai-
$4,000 - 6,000 yin Lo collection, see Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese White
Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, 1998, pl. 32, pp. 148-149:
Compare the combed decoration on the first bowl with similarly as 11th or 12th century, and identified as a storage container for food
combed and incised lotus decoration on a bowl excavated from the or tea powder (15.5cm height with cover).
Hu family tomb in Dexing City, Jiangxi province, dated by inscription
to 1092 (20.2cm diameter): see Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and 7230
Yuan Dynasties, 1998, cat. no. 22, p. 49. A molded qingbai bowl imitating Dingyao
Song/Yuan dynasty, 13th/14th century
7228 Thinly formed with a wide curving well raised on a short and narrow
A Cizhou slip-decorated pillow with stamped and foot ring, the interior walls molded with a leiwen band above
incised decoration alternating phoenix and peony blossoms filling the walls and a lotus
Northern Song dynasty, 11th century plant across the floor, all in shallow raised relief beneath a dark gray-
Of bean shape, covered by a layer of white slip incised with a feather- green glaze, the rim now bound in copper.
patterned band on the canted side walls and two chrysanthemums 7 1/8in (18.3cm) diameter
in bloom against a stamped ‘fish roe’ ground across the canted top, $8,000 - 12,000
the clay fabric exposed in the process burnt a pale brown beneath a
colorless glaze that stops unevenly above the flat base. For Jin period Dingyao prototypes and other examples of qingbai
7 3/4in (19.7cm) long adaptations made at Southern kilns during the 13th to 14th centuries,
$4,000 - 6,000 see the National Palace Museum exhibition Dingzhou Hua Ci
(Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou), 2014, cat. nos. II-149 to II-150,
For similarly shaped and decorated pillows in the collections of the pp. 216-219; and III-3 to III-4, pp. 244-245.
Royal Ontario Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago, see Mino
Yutaka, Freedom of Clay and Brush through Seven Centuries in 7231
Northern China: Tz’u-chou Type Wares, 960-1600 A.D., 1980, pp. A celadon glazed conical bowl
64-65, pl. 20 and fig. 41. Jin/Yuan dynasty
Of Yaozhou type, molded with six raised ribs on the canted interior
walls surrounding the sunken floor and a single continuous line incised
below the rim on the exterior, the olive green-glaze applied unevenly
to all surfaces except the foot pad and kiln sand adhering along the
inside surface of the foot ring.
7 7/8in (20cm) diameter
$4,000 - 6,000
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