NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

This bowl may have been produced in the Dangyangyu kilns, which were located in Xiuwu county, northern Henan province, and flourished in the Song dynasty. The Dangyangyu kilns produced wares that most commonly had incised or painted decoration on a white-glazed ground, or had carved or incised decoration on an ochre ground, although examples of marbled wares, green-glazed wares, and figural wares have all been excavated. The white-glazed wares from this kiln were refined and had a lustrous glaze, similar to Ding wares, and the painterly decoration compare to Cizhou wares. A shallow white-glazed Dangyangyu bowl which appears to have faint gilt-decoration of a floral spray, is in the collection of the Jiaozuo Museum, and was excavated in Jiazuo city, see Dangyangyu Kiln of China, Beijing, 2011, p. 379, no. 38. Compare, also a ding bowl with faint traces of water fowls and floral scroll in gilt, illustrated by H. Gakuji, Sekai Toji Zenshu (Ceramic Art of the World), vol. 12: Song, Tokyo, 1977, p. 23-24, no. 15-16.