NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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A LARGE CARVED DING HEXAFOIL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The bowl has widely flared sides that rise from the small knife-cut foot to the hexafoil rim, and is covered overall with a clear glaze of ivory tone. The interior is divided into six sections by crisp, molded lines and is carved in the center with a single lotus spray.
8 1/8 in. (20.7 cm.) diam., Japanese double wood box inscribed by Fujio Koyama (1900-1975)

Provenance

Tokugawa Family, Nagoya (according to label on box).
Mineo Hata Collection, Kobe, Japan.

Exhibited

Tokyo, Gotoh Museum (according to exhibition label in box).

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Lot Essay

A hexafoil Ding bowl of comparable size, but carved allover with lotus sprays, in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji – Dingyao, vol. 9, Shanghai, 1981, pl. 90. Another foliate-rimmed bowl formerly in the collection of Sakamoto Goro, but with additional lotus sprays carved in the well of each lobed section, was sold at Sotheby’s New York, 16 September 2014, lot 7.

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