Page 250 - Bonhams Wen Tang Collectiont, October 2014 Hong Kong

216 The creation of successfully fired white-bodied porcelains covered
with delicate glazes of pale aquamarine blue, was achieved during the
A rare Qingbai carved pear-shaped bottle vase Northern Song Dynasty at kilns at Jingdezhen. These wares named
Southern Song Dynasty qingbai, ‘blue white’, or yingqing, ‘shadow blue’, were regarded as
extremely fine and were highly sought after. The white porcelain body,
Elegantly potted raised on a splayed foot, rising to a slender neck made from ‘Nangang stone’ or ‘baidunzi’, was typically fired upright on
and slightly flared mouth rim, finely decorated with flowers borne on clay pads or rings which often left orange-red circles or marks on the
scrolling leaf stems below a band of upright pendent leaves at the bases. By the Southern Song period, Qingbai wares were extremely
tall slender neck, covered overall in an attractive very pale sky-blue popular, particularly those carved and modelled with decoration in
glaze. relief. The most popular designs were floral, particularly flowers amid
26.5cm high scrolling leafy meanders.

HK$600,000 - 800,000 A Southern Song Dynasty Qingbai meiping vase, similarly carved with
US$77,000 - 100,000 dense floral designs, formerly in the George Eumorfopoulos Collection,
in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated by Rose Kerr,
南宋 青白釉刻花膽瓶 Song Dynasty Ceramics, London, 2004, p.103, no.104.

248 | Bonhams