JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234)

It is rare to find the ‘rhinoceros gazing the moon’ scene on Ding wares. Compare two Jin dynasty Ding dishes molded with the same scene but with rhinoceros on the left side of the composition, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated by by Tsai Meifen, Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the Collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 177-78, nos. II-116-17. It is interesting to note that second dish in the National Palace Museum has the same key-fret and foliate borders as the present dish.