A fine and large Qingbai, six-lobed bowl in mallow-shape with incised floral decoration

Description:

China, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
D. 20,4 cm
The thinly potted six-lobed bowl with everted rim is on the interior elegantly carved with six large petals emphasizing the mallow shape of the bowl.
Important South German private collection, acquired at Nagel from the collection of Peter Schmidt (born 1937) on 2.11.2011, lot 605, by repute acquired at Bluett in London in the 1980s
Cf. U. Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik, Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst 1988, no. 31, p. 60, a larger (d.: 19,7 cm), identically decorated Qingbai bowl, dated Southern Song - Hong Kong Museum of Art, Song ceramics from the Kwan collection, HK 1994, no. 115, p.266+267, an almost identical bowl of same décor and size (d.: 20,1 cm), dated to Southern Song - Lo, Kai-Yin (ed.), Bright as Silver, White as Snow, Chinese white ceramics from late Tang to Yuan dynasty, Yunmingtang, Hong Kong 1998, no. 41, a similarly decorated bowl of same shape and size (diam.: 19,5 cm), dated to later Northern Song (960-1127) - Minor wear, good condition