Lot 37. Property from an Old Belgian Family Collection. A Qingbai lobed bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279),applied with a pale greyish blue glaze. Diameter 8.8 cm. Lot Sold 7,620 EUR (Estimate 6,000 - 8,000 EUR). © Sotheby's 2023
Provenance: John Sparks Ltd., London, 31st March 1961 (£115).
Note: Bowls of this size and shape include two in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in A Panorama of Ceramics in the National Palace Museum: Chun Ware, Taipei, 1999, pls. 80 and 95; a related green Jun bubble bowl, illustrated in Anthony Du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Oxford, 1984, fig. 2, p. 86; and another example, sold in our New York rooms, 17th March 2015, lot 88.
Sotheby's. Arts d'Asie, Paris, 15 juin 2023
