A rare group of four Qingbai white-glazed bowls and covers, Song dynasty | 宋 白釉蓋盌 一組四件

Sotheby’s London, 9th June 1992, lot 117.

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倫敦蘇富比，1992年6月9日，編號117

Covered bowls of this charming form were produced at kilns sites across Song and Jin dynasty China, but were likely first developed at the famous Ding kilns of Hebei province. Compare a closely related covered bowl from the Ding kilns, preserved in the British Museum, London (accession no. 1936,1012.265), dedicated by painted inscription in accordance with 1162 CE but possibly earlier in production, in R. L. Hobson, The George Eumorfopoulos Collection, vol. III, London, 1926, cat. no. C.136, pl. 28; another Ding example exhibited at the Ausstellung Chinesischer Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 603, later sold in our London rooms, 24th May 1955, lot 144; and an example in Jingdezhen porcelain – likely of similar Qingbai glaze – uncovered from the tomb of Wang Geng, dated to 1200, illustrated in Liu Tao, Dated Ceramics of the Song, Liao and Jin Periods, Beijing, 2004, p. 99, fig. 7-3.

宋金時期，各地窯口皆曾燒製此類秀雅別緻之蓋盌，然其最早應始於河北定窯。可比較一例定窯蓋盌，現藏於倫敦大英博物館（館藏編號 1936,1012.265），盌身書銘紀年為1162年，惟可能更早製造，著錄於霍伯森《喬治・尤莫弗普勒斯收藏》，卷三，倫敦，1926年，編號 C.136，圖版28；另見一例定窯蓋盌，展於1929年柏林藝術學院《中國藝術展》，編號603，後於1955年5月24日售於倫敦蘇富比，編號144；以及一例景德鎮窯製蓋盌，或施青白釉，出土於汪庚墓，墓誌紀年為1200年，著錄於劉濤編，《宋遼金紀年瓷器》，北京，2004年，頁99，圖7-3。