NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)

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A DING CARVED ‘LOTUS’ BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (960-1127)
The bowl is thinly potted with an angular profile, fluidly carved to the interior with lotus blossoms and leaves on meandering stems, covered inside and out with a lustrous glaze of pale ivory tone. The mouth is bound with a metal rim. The base is incised with a collector’s mark qi, ‘seven’.
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Private collection of a Japanese artist (d. 1975), and thence by descent within the family

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Lot Essay

A Ding dish of very similar lotus design but with a rounded rim from the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in Selection of Ding Ware: The Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2012, pp. 154-155, no. 60. Another rounded Ding dish with incised lotus motifs is in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Tsai Meifen, Decorated Porcelains of Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2014, pp. 88-89, no. II-42.

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