A MOULDED DINGYAO DISH

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A MOULDED DINGYAO DISH
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Finely and crisply moulded with a pair of fish in the central medallion amid rolling waves extending into the well where four ducks swim beside lotus and water weeds, all below a key-fret border, the exterior plain, the rounded sides resting on a neat ring foot all covered in an even pale ivory glaze, the rim bound in a yellow metal mount
6 1/4 in. (16 cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

Another ding bowl of this pattern, but of slightly larger size (20.1 cm.) in the Victoria and Albert Museum is illustrated by Jessica Rawson, Chinese Ornament, The Lotus and the Dragon, fig. 101. Several more examples are illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanshi, vol. 9, nos. 87, 88, 127, and a mold no. 129, although none are as crisply decorated nor as fine in condition.

(US$35,000-45,000)

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