Qingbai porcelain shallow bowl

Qingbai porcelain shallow bowl

Northern Song dynasty, 960 – 1127
Diameter: 6 inches, 15.3 cm
Height: 11/2 inches, 3.9 cm

Qingbai porcelain shallow bowl

A qingbai shallow bowl, supported on a low, straight foot, from which the thinly potted sides rise in two stages to terminate in a six-lobed rim. The interior is delicately incised with abstract flowers in the centre. The rim is divided into six lobes by six vertical slip lines. The exterior of the bowl is unadorned. The bowl is entirely covered in a transparent glaze of pale blue hue, leaving only the base unglazed, showing the fine-grained white porcelain body.

 

This delicate shallow bowl has several distinctive Northern Song dynasty features, such as the fine incised decoration and the purity of the porcelain.[1] The use of raised slip lines to articulate the form, a technique seen on other ceramics and lacquer wares, demonstrates the close affinity between the various media during this period; it is believed that such six-lobed dish forms are derived from silver prototypes.[2] A practically identical six-lobed qingbai porcelain shallow bowl incised with floral and linear comb patterns and of comparable shape and size is in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing.[3] Three other closely comparable sixlobed qingbai shallow bowls of similar decoration, shape and size, all dated to the Northern Song dynasty, are respectively in the collections of the National Museum of Korea,[4] the Muwen Tang collection,[5] and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.[6]

  1. Liu, Tao, Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Period, Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Committee for the Preservation of Ancient Monuments, Cultural Relics Publishing House, Beijing, 2004, p. 100
  2. Rotondo-McCord, L. Heaven and Earth Seen Within: Song Ceramics from the Robert Barron Collection, New Orleans Museum of Art, 2000, p. 126
  3. Li, Huibing ed. Liang Song Ci Qi, vol.II- Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin quaji, Shangwu yinshuguan, Hong Kong, no. 160, p. 176
  4. Min, Hyon-gu etc. Chinese Ceramics at the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 2007, no. 126, p. 228
  5. Kwan, S. Song Ceramics – The Muwen Tang Collection Series, Vol. 11, Hong Kong, 2012, no. 89, pp. 264-5
  6. The Ashmolean Museum online collection archive, accession no. EA1956.809

青白釉刻花葵瓣口盤
北宋 960 – 1127
徑：15.3 公分 高：3.9 公分
青白釉小盤，六瓣花形，薄胎，折沿淺弧壁，矮圈足，通體施青白釉，釉厚處成青色。盤心刻花卉
卷草紋，局部用篦形器劃出細線紋，外壁光素無紋。僅圈足內無釉，露出雪白色胎及墊燒痕。本品
發色漂亮，釉面保存良好，為北宋饒州窯青白釉器的代表作之一。北京故宮博物院、南韓韓國國家
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