A Chinese Qingbai shallow bowl

Song dynasty, 12th-13th century
Modelled with wide slightly rising sides and standing on a short cylindrical foot, the interior carved with three stylised phoenixes, covered with a pale bluish grey glaze, except for a central ring to the interior and the base, the base with a black four-character inscription reading Yihai, mengwei (in the middle of the cyclical year yihai).
Diam. 17.1 cm

Provenance:
- Ming House, Hong Kong (1996)
- Collection Drs. Koos de Jong, Amsterdam

Compare:
[exhib.cat.] Chinese and South-East Asian White Ware Found in the Philippines, Ayala Museum, Makati, Metro Manila 1992, no. 19, p. 68