NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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.