NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A DINGYAO MOLDED CONICAL BOWL
NORTHERN SONG/JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY
The sides flaring widely from a small, shallow ring foot, the interior crisply molded with a small central flower head below a broad band of foliate scroll bearing three large blossoms and a narrow key-fret border, all under a glaze of ivory tone falling in pale olive tears on the exterior below the unglazed rim
6¾in. (17.2cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare three Dingyao conical bowls molded in the interior with a similar foliate scroll below a key-fret border, in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, C. T. Loo, New York, and the Honolulu Academy of Arts, illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, vol. II, Stockholm, 1970, pls. 80a, 80b and 81 respectively. See, also, another Dingyao conical bowl of similar design from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelain of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 62, no. 54.

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