SONG DYNASTY (960-1279)

Two slightly smaller Ding vases from the Northern Song dynasty with the same distinctive sgraffiato technique of brown against white and with combed white decoration include the brown slip-decorated Ding vase (16.3 cm. high) in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, vol 9., Tokyo, 1981, pl.11; and the brown-slip-decorated Ding vase (18.4 cm. high) sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 March 2002, lot 102.