Lot Essay
For a Ding washer of this form molded with fish and a keyfret border, from the Qing Court Collection, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelains of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 92, no. 83. See, also, the Ding shards molded with closely related fish designs in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang Zhongguo gudai yaozhi biaoben (Examples of Ancient Chinese Kiln Sites in the Palace Museum Collection), vol. II: Hebei, Beijing, 2006, pp. 224-25, no. 186.