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Lot Essay
A Rare, Jin-Dynasty Molded Ding Bowl with Both Russet and Clear Glazes
Robert D. Mowry 毛瑞
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus,
Harvard Art Museums, and
Senior Consultant, Christie’s
哈佛大學藝術博物館亞洲部榮譽主任暨佳士得高級顧問
This rare Jin-dynasty Ding bowl sports russet-brown glaze on its exterior and clear glaze over molded decoration of two phoenixes in a peony scroll on its interior. Virtually unique, this bowl relates both to Ding vessels with russet glaze and to those with molded decoration.
Located near Jiancicun, Quyang county, Hebei province, the Ding kilns are best remembered for their porcelaneous white stoneware vessels with clear glaze, but they also produced wares with black and russet-brown glazes.
A Jin-dynasty, Ding yu pouring vessel in the Jilin Provincial Museum, Changchun, features russet glaze on its exterior, its interior with clear glaze over incised fish and aquatic plant décor. (Ding Ware: Complete Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain 9, Kyoto: Minomi, 1981, no. 125.) And an undecorated Ding bowl from the Jin or Yuan dynasty in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art sports clear glaze on its interior and black glaze on its exterior (50.171).
In terms of decoration, a Ding bowl with molded phoenix-and-peony décor in the Percival David Foundation Collection at the British Museum, London (PDF.108), is the most closely related to the present bowl, though it is coated inside and out with clear glaze. Two clear-glazed bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, feature kindred phoenix decoration. (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 184-185, nos. II-121, II-122.) Archaeologists have dated sherds of a bowl with phoenixes amidst chrysanthemums excavated at the Ding kiln site to the second half of the Jin dynasty. (Ding Ware: The World of White Elegance: Recent Archaeological Findings, Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 2013, pp. 179-180, no. 44.)
A Ding mold with phoenix-and-chrysanthemum décor in the Percival David Foundation Collection (PDF.181) bears an inscribed date of 1184. The mold’s inscribed date together with the later Jin date that archaeologists have assigned to the sherds excavated at the Ding kiln site suggest a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century date for the present bowl.
Robert D. Mowry 毛瑞
Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art Emeritus,
Harvard Art Museums, and
Senior Consultant, Christie’s
哈佛大學藝術博物館亞洲部榮譽主任暨佳士得高級顧問
This rare Jin-dynasty Ding bowl sports russet-brown glaze on its exterior and clear glaze over molded decoration of two phoenixes in a peony scroll on its interior. Virtually unique, this bowl relates both to Ding vessels with russet glaze and to those with molded decoration.
Located near Jiancicun, Quyang county, Hebei province, the Ding kilns are best remembered for their porcelaneous white stoneware vessels with clear glaze, but they also produced wares with black and russet-brown glazes.
A Jin-dynasty, Ding yu pouring vessel in the Jilin Provincial Museum, Changchun, features russet glaze on its exterior, its interior with clear glaze over incised fish and aquatic plant décor. (Ding Ware: Complete Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain 9, Kyoto: Minomi, 1981, no. 125.) And an undecorated Ding bowl from the Jin or Yuan dynasty in New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art sports clear glaze on its interior and black glaze on its exterior (50.171).
In terms of decoration, a Ding bowl with molded phoenix-and-peony décor in the Percival David Foundation Collection at the British Museum, London (PDF.108), is the most closely related to the present bowl, though it is coated inside and out with clear glaze. Two clear-glazed bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, feature kindred phoenix decoration. (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 184-185, nos. II-121, II-122.) Archaeologists have dated sherds of a bowl with phoenixes amidst chrysanthemums excavated at the Ding kiln site to the second half of the Jin dynasty. (Ding Ware: The World of White Elegance: Recent Archaeological Findings, Osaka: Museum of Oriental Ceramics, 2013, pp. 179-180, no. 44.)
A Ding mold with phoenix-and-chrysanthemum décor in the Percival David Foundation Collection (PDF.181) bears an inscribed date of 1184. The mold’s inscribed date together with the later Jin date that archaeologists have assigned to the sherds excavated at the Ding kiln site suggest a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century date for the present bowl.