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).