NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A Ding dish of similar shape, with key fret carved on the everted rim and carved in the center with a chilong, is illustrated in Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, p. 100, pl. II-56, and another with plain, everted rim, is illustrated pp. 98-99, pl. II-55. The horned dragon that decorates the center of this dish is similar to that seen in a line drawing illustrated by J. Wirgin, Sung Ceramic Designs, London, 1979, Fig. 13 (c), which is from a dish in the British Museum.