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A FINE DINGYAO HEXAFOIL DISH

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A FINE DINGYAO HEXAFOIL DISH
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Crisply and boldly carved across the slightly concave centre and deep everted sides with one large lotus flower-head full-faced and another in profile issuing from two curling overlapping stems symmetrically set with pairs of feathery leaves, all issuing from a single lotus pad partially trailed around the border, the underside plain and of even tone, a large tear-drop within the crisp, short straight foot, the rim bound in copper (one small shallow chip to underside)
9 7/8 in. (20.5 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Previously sold in London, 17 February 1959, lot 61.

Comparable dishes with floral rims, lotus designs and flaring sides rising from a broad flat medallion are illustrated in Hobson, Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections, from the Alexander Collection, p. 14, fig. 26; The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Catalogue, Vol. II, no. 26; The Mount Trust Collection, Catalogue, fig. 55; The Hoyt Collection, in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Catalogue, Vol. II, no. 26; cf. also the examples sold in our London Rooms, 13 December 1955, lot 56; 28 June 1965, lot 228, from the Fuller Collection; 14 April 1980, lot 164, 16 June 1986, lot 130; and 8 December 1986, lot 232.

Compare also the dish with a plain circular rim from The Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, which bears an inscription of the Shao Xing period (1132-1164), illustrated in Ting Yao and Related White Wares, no. 184; and the related bowls in Toji Taikei, Heibonsha Series, vol. 37, no. 71; the Lundgren example in Stockholm B.M.F.E.A., 1978, no. 50, pl. 16, fig. 10; the example in the British Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol., col. 20; the examples sold in our London Rooms, 13 December 1955, exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Eumorfopoulos bowl illustrated by Hobson, Catalogue, vol. III, pl. XXIX, no. C146 now in the Victoria and Albert Museum; and the deep bowl illustrated in Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, vol. 25, pl. 27, no. 15, from the Malcolm Collection.

(US$50,000-55,000)

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