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PROPERTY FROM THE PETER SCHEINMAN COLLECTION

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A RARE QINGBAI LOTUS-FORM BOWL, COVER AND STAND

SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The rounded conical bowl is carved on the exterior with fne radiating lines rising to a band of small raised
dots in imitation of stamen, and the slightly domed cover is molded in the shape of a mature lotus pod. The
stand with wide fared sides is carved inside and out with overlapping lotus petals, and decorated in the
recessed center with a lotus fower. All are covered with a pale blue glaze.
5Ω (20.6 cm.) diam.

$20,000-30,000

PROVENANCE

China Gallery, New York, 4 March 2005.
Peter Scheinman (1932-2017) Collection, New York.

A very similar lotus-form bowl, cover, and stand from the Meiyintang Collection in the Museum Rietberg,
Zurich, is illustrated by R, Krahl in Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol.
1, p. 316, no. 591. The Meiyintang bowl has a combination of lotus petals and stamen on the exterior.
Compare, also, a qingbai bowl and cover with similar incised line decoration on the sides, illustrated in
The Multiplicity of Simplicity: Monochrome Wares from the Song to the Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 2012,
no. 1.
南宋 青白釉蓮蓬式蓋盌連托

(another view of stand)

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