A CHINESE QINGBAI LOBED CONICAL BOWLNORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)The finely potted conical bowl with six pronounced lobes around the rim, with six slip lines emanating from the lobe indents, the whole covered in a pale blue glaze.5cm high, 14.75cm diameterPROVENANCE:Private Collection, Melbourne.Francis Egerton Grosvenor, 8th Earl of Wilton.Purchased by the vendor from Lord Francis Egerton Grosvenor who in turn acquired his porcelain collection in Hong Kong in the 1970s and 1980s.