Lot 151
151
A CARVED DINGYAO LOBED DISH

Details
A CARVED DINGYAO LOBED DISH
SONG DYNASTY

The shallow rounded sides rising to a rim of hexafoil outline, supported on a thin, cylindrical foot ring, freely carved in the interior with a central roundel of a lotus spray below lightly molded flutes in the well, covered inside and out with a glaze of pale ivory tone pooling to pale olive on the reverse, with copper-bound rim
7 7/8in. (21cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Bowls of the same form and decoration are illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting White Ware, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, no. 104; in the Illustrated Catalogues of Tokyo National Museum, Chinese Ceramics I, 1988, p. 89, no. 350; and a third is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., no. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 58c