A DING PERSIMMON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL
A DING PERSIMMON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL
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A DING PERSIMMON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL

JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)

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A DING PERSIMMON-GLAZED MOULDED BOWL
JIN DYNASTY (960-1234)
The bowl is moulded on the interior with two fish swimming amidst waves in the centre below a band of six floral spray panels on the cavetto. It is covered overall with a glaze of ochre-brown colour that stops at the unglazed rim exposing the fine white body.
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) diam., box

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Lot Essay

Compare a brown-glazed Ding bowl with similar moulded design but with a floral roundel in the centre, excavated at Zhelimu Naiman Mengqi in 1975 and now in the Jilin Provincial Museum, illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji 9 Ding yao, Kyoto, 1981, no. 113 (fig. 1).

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