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213 Silver and lacquer were extremely influential as design sources for
ceramics during the Song period. The form of the present lot most
A rare Qingbai ‘chrysanthemum-bud’ lobed cup likely originated from silver bracket-lobed or flower shaped cups made
Northern Song Dynasty during the Tang Dynasty. Compare with a Northern Song Dynasty
fluted dish from the British Museum, illustrated by Stacey Pierson,
The delicately potted cup raised on a short spreading foot, with Qingbai Ware: Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties,
rounded steep flaring sides moulded as petals radiating from a small London, 2002, pp.80-81, no.33.
flower decorated on the centre of the interior, covered overall in an
attractive pale sky-blue glaze pooling in the recesses and away from 盌呈菊花口式，斜壁，束腰，足部往撇。每花瓣往中間集中，盌內有
the mouth rim exposing the white body. 一正面蓮花，通體施青白釉，釉質純淨，口沿部份無釉，整體感覺高
11cm diam. 雅。整器滿施青白釉，造型巧妙，青白釉在高低變化的造型中或鋪開
或沉積，使得釉色富於變化。
HK$200,000 - 300,000
US$26,000 - 39,000 同 以菊花形狀為器形的例子，有大英博物館藏花口菊花瓣碟，雖器
形略有不同，但概念一致，見Stacey Pierson著，《Qingbai Ware:
北宋 青白釉花口菊瓣盌 Chinese Porcelain of the Song and Yuan Dynasties》，倫敦，2002
年，頁80-81，圖版33。

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