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FROM A PRIVATE FAR-EASTERN COLLECTION
A DINGYAO "DUCKS" DEEP DISH
PROBABLY SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
Details
A DINGYAO "DUCKS" DEEP DISH
PROBABLY SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
Of ogee-form, with widely flared sides rising on a neat foot ring, delicately carved to the interior with a pair of ducks swimming under branches of reed, covered inside and out with a glaze of ivory tone falling slightly irregularly to the edge of the rim
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diam.
PROBABLY SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)
Of ogee-form, with widely flared sides rising on a neat foot ring, delicately carved to the interior with a pair of ducks swimming under branches of reed, covered inside and out with a glaze of ivory tone falling slightly irregularly to the edge of the rim
8 5/8 in. (21.8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Woolley & Wallis England, 20 May 2009, lot 214
By repute, property of a European private collector, purchased in the 1930's. With paper label for John Sparks Ltd.
By repute, property of a European private collector, purchased in the 1930's. With paper label for John Sparks Ltd.
Literature
Compare also to similar steep sided dishes decorated with a slight variation on the same theme with two ducks swimming side-by-side in a lotus pond. Cf. a dish in the Percival David Foundation, illustrated in The World's Great Collections - Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha series, vol. 6, 1981, col. pl. 3; and in the Eumorfopoulos collection, illustrated by R. Hobson, Catalogue, vol. III, 1926, pl. XXV.
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