Lot Essay
There is a very similar Dingyao bowl in the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, illustrated in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, 1987, no. 50.
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NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
Details
A LARGE DINGYAO CARVED LOBED CONICAL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl is well potted with a deep, rounded conical body, and is carved in the center with a lotus spray below six slender fillets of slip that rise to shallow indentations in the lobed rim, which also correspond to six lines carved on the exterior. The glaze, of ivory tone, gathers in tears on the exterior and continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base. The rim has a metal mount.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The bowl is well potted with a deep, rounded conical body, and is carved in the center with a lotus spray below six slender fillets of slip that rise to shallow indentations in the lobed rim, which also correspond to six lines carved on the exterior. The glaze, of ivory tone, gathers in tears on the exterior and continues over the narrow ring foot to cover the base. The rim has a metal mount.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam.
Provenance
S.H. Minkenhoff Collection.
Sotheby's New York, 3 June 1992, lot 199.
Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 149.
Sotheby's New York, 3 June 1992, lot 199.
Christie's New York, 24 March 2004, lot 149.
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