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• Auction House:
  Gibson's Auctioneers & Valuers
• Sale Name:
  The Autumn Auction Series
• Sale Date:
  16 May 2021 ~ 11am (AEST)
• Lot #:
  33
• Lot Description:
  A rare qingbai cosmetic box and cover northern Song dynasty
  the interior divided into three sections by unglazed free standing flowering stems extending from the centre to the rim, each section containing a small bowl, the low domed cover finely incised with a floral scroll, covered with a translucent pale blue glaze falling short of the rims and shallow foot revealing the white ware
  12 cm diameter
• Provenance:
  Sotheby's Australia, Sydney, 15 April 2014, lot 196; Private Collection, Sydney
• References:
  Compare with a cosmetic box of this type illustrated in the catalogue of the London Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition, The Arts of the Sung Dynasty, London, 1960, pl.76, no 217, from the Collection of Captain and Mrs. Bulkeley-Johnson; and in the catalogue of the London OCS Jubilee exhibition, The Ceramic Art of China, London, 1971, pl. 85, no.124
• Notes:
  Condition: Some small chips/frits to interior edge of the base and to the tips of the lotus flowers and leaves, a firing flaw to one lotus stem
• Estimate:
  A$6,000 - 8,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Oriental

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