Lot Essay
The glazed bases and unglazed mouth rims indicate that these dishes were fired upside down in the fushao method.
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NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH-11TH CENTURY
Details
A Pair of Rare Small Dingyao Foliate Dishes
Northern Song dynasty, 10th-11th century
Each thinly potted with shallow, flared sides rising to a notched hexagonally lobed rim, covered inside and out with a satiny glaze of cream tone continuing over the flat base, the edge of the rim unglazed
Diameter 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam., box
Falk Collection no. 216. (2)
Northern Song dynasty, 10th-11th century
Each thinly potted with shallow, flared sides rising to a notched hexagonally lobed rim, covered inside and out with a satiny glaze of cream tone continuing over the flat base, the edge of the rim unglazed
Diameter 3 5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam., box
Falk Collection no. 216. (2)
Provenance
Mathias Komor, New York, December 1943.