CHINE, DYNASTIE SONG DU NORD (960-1127)

The present bowl is finely carved with freely executed daylily motifs, a design known on a number of Ding ware vessels. Compare a larger basin in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ting Ware White Porcelain, Taipei, 1987, no. 28; a conical bowl from the Linyushanren Collection, included in The Classic Age of Chinese Ceramics: An Exhibition of Song Treasures from the Linyushanren Collection, Hong Kong, 2012, no. 1; and a larger basin from the same collection, ibid., no. 9. See also a smaller example from the Baron Fujita Family Collection (diam. 13.7 cm), sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September 2014, lot 733.