A FINELY CARVED DINGYAO FLORAL BOWL

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A FINELY CARVED DINGYAO FLORAL BOWL
SONG DYNASTY

With gently sloping rounded sides and slightly flaring foliate rim, the interior crisply carved with lotus, all under an ivory-white glaze pooling in the recesses
8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) diam., box
Literature
The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 30.
Exhibited
Gems of Chinese Art, Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, Empress Place Museum, Singapore, 1992, Catalogue, pl. 46.

Lot Essay

Similar examples are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, p. 128, figs. 374 and 377; Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, pl. 413; Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 5, col. pl. 20, from the British Museum, London; in ibid., vol. 9, pl. 59, from the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington; and Chinese Art from the Newark Museum, p. 31, no. 13. A slightly larger example with a circular rim from the Meiyintang Collection is illustrated in the Catalogue, Volume One, p. 205, col. pl. 359.

(US$40,000-50,000)

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