FIVE DYNASTIES, 10TH CENTURY

A white-glazed dish of nearly identical shape and size attributed to the Ding kilns and dated to the 10th century was in the Ronald Longsdorf collection and formerly in the collection of Carl Kempe (1884-1967) and C.T. Loo (1880-1957), and is illustrated in J.J. Lally & Co., Early Chinese White Wares: The Ronald W. Longsdorf Collection, New York, 2015, no. 13. Another related trefoil Ding dish is in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, and is illustrated by R. Scott, Imperial Taste: Chinese Ceramics from the Percival David Foundation, Los Angeles, 1989, p. 24, no. 4.