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Property from the Collection of Mark S. Pratt
Property from the Collection of Mark S. Pratt
Lot 7227
Two qingbai deep bowls Song dynasty
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoUS$4,000 - US$6,000
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Two qingbai deep bowls
Song dynasty
The first thinly potted with a deep curving well supported on a narrow foot ring, the exterior walls incised with C-scrolls and combed lines forming flower heads and leafy branches, the limpid blue-green glaze applied everywhere except the rim area; the second bowl of inverted bell form with a flared rim and raised on a narrow foot, the walls without decoration except for an incised line below the exterior rim, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the cinnamon-burnt rim.
6 1/2in and 6 1/4in (16.5 and 16cm) diameters
The first thinly potted with a deep curving well supported on a narrow foot ring, the exterior walls incised with C-scrolls and combed lines forming flower heads and leafy branches, the limpid blue-green glaze applied everywhere except the rim area; the second bowl of inverted bell form with a flared rim and raised on a narrow foot, the walls without decoration except for an incised line below the exterior rim, the pale blue-green glaze covering all surfaces except the cinnamon-burnt rim.
6 1/2in and 6 1/4in (16.5 and 16cm) diameters
Footnotes
Compare the combed decoration on the first bowl with similarly combed and incised lotus decoration on a bowl excavated from the Hu family tomb in Dexing City, Jiangxi province, dated by inscription to 1092 (20.2cm diameter): see Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, 1998, cat. no. 22, p. 49.