Footnotes

北宋 青白釉劃刻蓮花紋花口碗

Provenance:
Mr Alfred Clark (1873-1950) and Mrs Ivy Clark (1890-1976), collection no.466
Spink & Son Ltd., London
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020), Athens and London, acquired circa 1970s

Published and Exhibited:
The Oriental Ceramic Society, Sung Dynasty Wares: Ting, Ying Ch'ing and Tz'ū Chou, London, 1949, no.168
D.Priestley and M.Flacks, A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics, London, 2017, pp.30-31, no.9 (published and illustrated)

來源：
Alfred Clark先生 (1873-1950) 和Ivy Clark夫人 (1890-1976)，藏品編號466
倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd.
Emmanuel Christofides (1928-2020)，雅典和倫敦，約獲得於1970年代

展覽著錄：
東方陶瓷學會，《Sung Dynasty Wares: Ting, Ying Ch'ing and Tz'ū Chou》，倫敦，1949年，編號168
D.Priestley和M.Flacks，《A Life in the Company of Song Ceramics》，倫敦，2017年，第30-31頁，編號9 （著錄插圖）

Alfred Clark (1873–1950) was a New York-born collector who became a naturalised British subject in 1921 after marrying Ivy née Sanders (1890-1976). A pioneer in sound reproduction and film, he produced the first moving picture films with plot and continuity at the Edison Laboratory in Orange, New Jersey, in 1895. In 1907, he founded the Musée de la Voix in the Archives of the National Opera, Paris. An active member of the Oriental Ceramic Society, Clark served on its Council almost continuously from 1934 to 1948. Together with his wife, he was a generous contributor to the Royal Academy's 1935–36 exhibition. In 1936, they donated a Song dynasty stoneware dish to the British Museum and continued to donate and sell Chinese and Japanese works in the 1970s, solidifying Clark's reputation as a significant patron of Asian art. See R.Davids & D.Jellinek, Provenance: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America, Oxford, 2011, pp.112-117.

See a related qingbai carved floral pattern bowl, Song dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p.199, no.181. Compare with a related qingbai carved peony-pattern bowl, Northern Song dynasty, illustrated in Bright as Silver White as Snow: Chinese Ceramics from Late Tang to Yuan Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1998, pp.164-165, no.40. See also a related qingbai carved floral bowl, Song dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (II), Hong Kong, 1996, p.205, no.187.

See a related qingbai 'lotus' carved bowl, Southern Song dynasty, which was sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 9 October 2014, lot 208.