A rare Chinese Qingbai lobed vase, Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127). The vase is well potted with a lobed ovoid body below a trumpet neck that rises to an outward-turned, flower-shaped mouth, and is supported on a scalloped foot, all under an even greenish-blue glaze. Provenance: An important private collection of Asian Art, Leonard Joel, 12/09/2021, lot 28. Accompanied by the certificate of Antiquity, Hong Kong Art craft Merchants Association limited, 12/06/2007, no. 1826. Compare a qingbai vase with a similar shape but with a more yellowish and pale glaze, see Sotheby's 25/11/2014, lot 1015, 26 cm high; fitted box