A SMALL DINGYAO INCISED JAR

Details

A SMALL DINGYAO INCISED JAR
SONG DYNASTY

The thinly potted, angled sides rising to a thin unglazed mouth rim, well carved on the exterior with feathery foliate scrolls and covered in a white glaze of very slight greenish tone falling in an irregular line to expose the fine white ware of the knife-cut foot
4½in. (11.5cm.) across

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Compare the jar with similar angled shoulders, but raised on a ring foot, in the National Palace Museum, included in the Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, October 1987, Catalogue, no. 14