NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)

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A CARVED DING 'LOTUS' BOWL
NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY (AD 960-1127)
The bowl has gently rounded sides rising from a low small ring foot. The interior is carved with a large lotus flower borne on a leafy stem encircled by a winding lotus stem issuing another blossom. The bowl is covered overall in a transparent ivory-tinged glaze pooling in the recesses.
8 1⁄2 in. (21.5 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Christie's New York, 5 June 1986, lot 184.

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Lot Essay

For a Ding ‘lotus’ bowl carved with a similar design, but with foliate rim, see Beyond Compare: A Thousand Years of the Literati Aesthetic; Christie’s Hong Kong, 26 November 2018, lot 8005. Another Ding bowl of this design with foliate rim is illustrated by J.J. Lally & Co. in The Collection of Dr. and Mrs. Marvin L. Gordon, New York, 2009, no. 40.

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