A SMALL DINGYAO CARVED SAUCER DISH

NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Details

A SMALL DINGYAO CARVED SAUCER DISH
Northern Song Dynasty
The sides of very slightly curved outline flaring outwards from the canted edge of the flat base, adeptly carved on the interior with a graceful lotus blossom spray with feather-like leaves and covered overall with an ivory-colored glaze shading to an olive tone in the recesses
5.11/16in. (14.4cm.) diam., box

Exhibited

Singapore, The Empress Place Museum, Gems of Chinese Art, Selections of Ceramics and Bronzes from the Tsui Art Foundation, 1992 - 1995, no. 47

Lot Essay

Compare the saucer dish with a metal rim band, apparently one of a pair, originally in the Edward T. Chow Collection, and later included in the exhibition in Chinese Art From the Reach Family Collection, Eskenazi, London, 8 - 22 December 1989, Catalogue, no. 16. The second dish of the pair is illustrated by Ccile and Michel Beurdeley, A Connoisseur's Guide to Chinese Ceramics, London 1974, p. 145, fig. 77.