A fine Chinese Qingbai glazed bowl, Southern Song Dynasty, circa 1200, of conical form carved on the interior with twenty-two roundels with comb technique borders, covered overall in a rich and even pale blue glaze pooling on the underside towards the foot rim, the biscuit base revealing the high-fired ceramic body, 18.5 cm diameter. Provenance: Formerly in an old Hong Kong collection and purchased from Susan Chen & Co., 25th July 1985. Sold by Marchant, 19th June 1991. Formerly in the collection of a titled English gentleman. A similar bowl of this design and size is included by Junkichi Mayuyama in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, Volume One, no. 433, p. 148; another related bowl incised with boys, in the Baur Foundation, Geneva, was included by Monique Crick in the exhibition of Chinese Trade Ceramics for South-East Asia, Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Charles Müller, 2010, no. 74, pp. 164/5, where the author notes, 'A bowl with identical decoration was brought to light from a tomb dated 1201, in the district of Yihuang in Jiangxi.' 南宋 青白釉刻花笠式碗 拍品来源：英国私人绅士收藏，此前曾于1991年为英国著名古董商Marchant所售，其购自香港旧藏