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Lot Essay
The present lot is remarkable for the elegant and delicate execution of the flowers which decorate the interior, renders it a fine example of the talent of Ding craftsmen. This bowl shares an almost identical interior decoration with two larger bowls (30 cm. and 25.8 cm.) with the former decorated with further flowers to the exterior, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2014, lot 3220, and the latter with subtly lobed rim from the Le Cong Tang Collection sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2017, lot 1. A line drawing of this design is found in Li Zhan, Ding Yao Ceramics from the Beixuan Shuzhai collection, Hong Kong, 2013, pp. 50-51, no. 19.
Compare a smaller bowl (13 cm. diam.) of similar form and also carved with a simpler floral design which traverses the interior from the Gordon collection sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1122. A smaller foliate bowl also bearing this design from the collection of Francis Stewart Kershaw and on loan to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, was exhibited by J.J. Lally & Co. in Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris. Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artists’ Collection, New York, 1997, pp.84-85, no. 21.
Compare a smaller bowl (13 cm. diam.) of similar form and also carved with a simpler floral design which traverses the interior from the Gordon collection sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1122. A smaller foliate bowl also bearing this design from the collection of Francis Stewart Kershaw and on loan to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, was exhibited by J.J. Lally & Co. in Brush & Clay: Paintings by Robert Ferris. Chinese Ceramics of the Song Dynasty from the Artists’ Collection, New York, 1997, pp.84-85, no. 21.