Lot 2102. A Qingbai flower-form bowl, Northern Song dynasty, 11th-12th century; 7¾ in. (19.7cm.) diam. Estimate USD 6,000 - USD 8,000. Price Realized USD 35,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2014. 

The bowl is potted with slightly rounded sides flaring widely to the petal-cut rim corresponding to the six petals of the fluidly carved and combed flowerhead that swirls outward from the center. The bowl is covered inside and out with a pale blue glaze pooling to a slightly darker tone on the slightly tapered ring foot. The base is unglazed.

Provenance: Sotheby's New York, 30 May 1990, lot 88.

Note: A very similar bowl from the collection of J.C. Thomson was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 16 June - 23 July 1960, pl. 75, no. 216. A slightly deeper Qingbai bowl carved with the same design is illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Tokyo, 1976, vol. 1, no. 430.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 20 - 21 March 2014