A Small Ding-Type Circular Box and Cover

SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY

Details

A Small Ding-Type Circular Box and Cover
Song dynasty, 10th-11th century
With deep upright sides ending in a narrow pronounced edge below the rounded canted shoulder of the cover and above the rounded lower body of the box which tapers to the countersunk foot, covered inside and out with an ivory-tinged clear glaze, the rims and foot rim unglazed
3 3/16in. (8cm.) high

Provenance

Scotty H. Tsuchiya, San Francisco, 28 June 1960.
Georges deBatz Collection.
Christie's East, New York, 24 April 1987, lot 13.

Lot Essay

A box and cover of very similar form, but covered with a black glaze and attributed to the Yaozhou kilns, was included in the exhibition, Scholarly Premises, Kaikodo, New York, Autumn 1999, no. 54. Compare, also, the tall cylindrical covered box described as Northern white ware, from the Charles B. Hoyt Collection in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 135.

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