Two Chinese Qingbai bowls, Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279), one bowl of conical form with incised decoration of clouds to the interior, covered in a pale blue glaze, the other shallow bowl with incised decoration of lotus blossom, covered in a crackled ivory coloured glaze., the conical bowl 5.5 cm high, 17 cm diameter, the other 4.5 cm high, 17 cm diameter. Provenance: lot 141, Sotheby's new Bond Street, Oriental ceramics and works of Art, 10th June 1980.