A molded Qingbai 'phoenix' bowl, Southern Song / Yuan dynasty | 南宋 / 元 青白釉印花鳳凰紋盌

A molded Qingbai 'phoenix' bowl
Southern Song / Yuan dynasty
南宋 / 元 青白釉印花鳳凰紋盌

Diameter 6 ½ in., 16.7 cm

Condition Report:
There are three minor chips and a short firing tear to the rim.
口沿見三微細淺磕及一極微細窰縫。

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Catalogue Note:
Bowls of this design include an example illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Design, London, 1979, pl. 26b; another in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, illustrated in George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven and London, 1970, pl. 34, where the author mentions a similar bowl found in a Southern Song tomb datable to A.D. 1213 at Zhudaochuan. Another in the Barlow Collection, now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, was included in the Exhibition of ChineseArt, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 943 and the Mostra d'ArteCinese / Exhibition of Chinese Art, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1954, cat. no. 573 and is illustrated in Michael Sullivan, Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jadesin the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 117c. Another example from the Paul Tuller and Brodie Lodge Collections was included in the Oriental Ceramics Society exhibition The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, cat. no. 204.

A bowl of the same type from the T.Y. Chao Collection was offered in our Hong Kong rooms, 18th November 1986, lot 16. A slightly larger bowl from the Edward T. Chow Collection sold in our London rooms, 16th December 1980, lot 278.

Provenance:
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 1988.

藍理捷，紐約，1988年