NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 12TH-13TH CENTURY

A very similar 'daylily' Ding bowl, but with a band at the rim, from the Qing Court Collection and now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 60, no. 52. Another Ding bowl carved with a daylily spray on the interior is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, and illustrated in Dingzhou huaci: yuancang Dingyao xi baici tezhan (Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum), Taipei, 2013, p. 93, no. II-46.

The dating of this bowl is consistent with the results of a thermoluminesence test by C-Link, certificate no. 1433ZA08.