A SMALL DINGYAO CARVED BOWL

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A SMALL DINGYAO CARVED BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY

Of conical form, with finely potted, flaring sides issuing from a narrow foot ring, beautifully carved in the interior with a series of gently curving, radiating spirals forming the flutes of a stylized blossom, the exterior plain, applied with a creamy white glaze of ivory tone darkening slightly to pale olive in the recesses of the carving and stopping short of the unglazed rim and partially unglazed base
5¼in. (13.4cm.) diam., box

拍品專文

A pair of very similar bowls in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci daxi, Song, Yuan taoci daquan (Chinese Ceramics Series, Song and Yuan Ceramics), Taipei, 1988, pp. 144 and 145; and others are in the Freer Gallery of Art, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 9, Tokyo, 1981, pl. 57; in the Hans Popper Collection of Oriental Art, 1973, illustrated by d'Argencé in the Catalogue, no. 99; and another is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Dingyao (The Great Treasury of Chinese Ceramics: Ding Wares), vol. 9, Shanghai, 1981, pl. 72

For an interesting comparison, see the slightly larger yaozhou celadon bowl with similar carved decoration in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 157