A SMALL GLAZED STONEWARE DING AND COVER

PROPERTY FROM THE HARDY COLLECTION FROM THE SZE YUAN TANG

Details

A SMALL GLAZED STONEWARE DING AND COVER
WARRING STATES

The deep body raised on three curved supports and stamped with rows of S-scrolls on either side of a double-line band interrupted by a pair of upright handles, the shallow domed cover with similar stamped decoration and applied with three small tabs, with an irregular glaze of olive tone inside and out, small shallow rim chip
5in. (12.7cm.) across handles

Literature

Lot Essay

Stoneware vessels with pale greenish glaze and stamped scroll patterns were made in the Warring States period. Many of the vessel shapes can be seen to imitate those of bronzes. The stamped spiral patterns decorating these stonewares also derive from bronze ornament
A small covered ding of this size and type is illustrated by Mitsuru Uragami, Ancient Chinese Ceramics from the Neolithic Period to the Western Han, vol. I, Tokyo, 1991, p. 69 (top)