Lot 152
152
A SMALL FINELY MOLDED DINGYAO DISH

Details
A SMALL FINELY MOLDED DINGYAO DISH
JIN DYNASTY

The shallow dish delicately molded in the interior with a pair of mandarin ducks, one standing on a rocky embankment, the other swimming amidst lotus and other aquatic plants, the well crisply molded with dense foliate scroll below the plain, everted rim mounted in copper, covered entirely in an even, creamy white glaze of ivory tone pooling to pale olive in the recesses
5¾in. (14.7cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A number of dishes of this pattern with very fine molding have been published. One, formerly in the collection of Edward T. Chow, is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, B.M.F.E.A., no. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 97b; one is illustrated in Asian Art in The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1993, Catalogue, p. 59; and another is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 17. Others are illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo, 1976, p. 133, pl. 389; and one from the Heeramaneck Collection is illustrated by Warren Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1944, p. 182, fig. 346