A large carved 'Qingbai' bowl Southern Song Dynasty

of conical form, the broad straight sides radiating from the tapered foot, finely carved to the interior with three chubby boys, each cavorting on a meandering stem bearing large peony blossoms and dense foliage incised with combed details, all within a foliate scroll border below the rim, covered overall with a pale bluish-green glaze pooling to a darker tone in the recesses to highlight the carved details, the base left unglazed revealing the white body

The bowl has been restored/restuck from three pieces. The focal point of the cracks has been replaced with a triangular filler.
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The dating of this lot is consistent with the results of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford Authentication Ltd., no. P206a79.