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A Chinese 'Qingbai' boys bowl, Southern Song dynasty, 12th…
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Melbourne
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8-May-2017
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A Chinese 'Qingbai' boys bowl, Southern Song dynasty, 12th century, the interior finely incised with four flying boys holding four lotus branches in between, covered with a fine even bluish green glaze, 14.1 cm diameter. A larger Qinba i bowl with two boys please see Sotheby's Hong Kong, 5/4/2017, lot 3207. A bowl with similar design excavated from a tomb in Yihuang county, Jiangxi province, dated in accordance with 1201 AD, and now preserved in the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, is illustrated in Peng Shifan, ed., Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 65. Provenance: Ky Fine Art, Hong Kong, Private NSW Collection
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Antiquities: Asian