A Large Molded Dingyao Dish

JIN DYNASTY

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A Large Molded Dingyao Dish
Jin Dynasty
With shallow rounded sides raised on a narrow foot ring, the interior crisply molded with a central lotus spray encircled by narrow foliate and key-fret borders and an outer band of leafy lotus scroll, all within double bow-string borders, covered in a glaze of ivory tone falling in typical tears of slight olive tone on the exterior, with metal-bound rim
12in. (31cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A very similar dish of the same large size is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and illustrated in Zhongguo Taoci Quanji; Dingyao, 1981, vol. 9, pl. 83; and another of similar type was included in the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1987, no. 82. Compare, also, a related floral-decorated dish of this size with a central medallion containing ornamental rockwork from The Arthur M. Sackler Collections sold in these rooms, 1 December 1994, lot 154.

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