JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

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A RARE SMALL MOULDED 'MANDARIN DUCKS' DING DISH
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)
The shallow dish is delicately moulded on the interior with a pair of mandarin ducks, one standing on an embankment and the other is swimming amidst lotus and other aquatic plants. The cavetto is designed with a band of dense foliate scroll below a broad mouth rim. All covered in an even glaze of ivory tone pooling to pale olive in the recesses.
5 5/8 in. (14.2 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Literature

Mayuyama, Seventy Years, vol. one, Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, 1976, no. 389

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Lot Essay

Compare with four closely related examples. The first previously in the collection of Edward T. Chow, illustrated in Sung Ceramic Designs, no. 42, Stockholm, 1970, pl. 97b; the second from the Art Institute of Chicago; the third, in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 10, Tokyo, 1980, no. 17. The last example is from the collection in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, illustrated in Orientations, June 2000, p. 78, fig. 9.

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