A CHINESE QINGBAI 'CHRYSANTHEMUM' DEEP BOWL Song Dynasty 宋 青白釉菊瓣缽 With rounded sides rising from very slight foot, the exterior moulded with two bands of chrysanthemum petals issuing from the base, covered in a pale blue glaze that stops short of the rim, 12.8cm diameter - PROVENANCE: Property of a French Private Collection formed in Hong Kong during the 1960’s-1980’s; The Collection of the late Mrs. A. Kok-Viersen, sold by order of J.A.Witte, Esq., Sotheby's New Bond Street, 28 May 1974, lot 14. 來源：法國私人收藏，1960-1980年代在香港組成；A. Kok-Viersen 女士舊藏，現藏家購自龐德街蘇富比，1974年5月28日，拍品編號14。 c.f. A comparable bowl was offered at Christie's New York, 19th September 2014, lot 737. A similar bowl, with a basket-weave decoration to the exterior, was recovered from a tomb dated to 1127AD in Wuyuan county, Jiangxi province, as detailed in Peng, Shifan ed., 'Dated Qingbai Wares of the Song and Yuan dynasties', Ching Leng Foundation, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 40, p.57. Another deep bowl of similar form, this one with remains of metal on the rims, was excavated in 1964 from a Southern Song tomb in Hubei province, now housed in the collection of the Hubei Museum and illustrated in Zhang, Bo ed., 'Zhongguo Chutu Ciqi Quanji. (Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China), Vol. 13 – Hubei & Hunan', The Science Publisher, Beijing, 2008, no. 84, p. 84.品相报告: Repaired damage to bowl, with additional cracks present. Surface wear commensurate with age.