FIVE DYNASTIES-EARLY NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 10TH CENTURY

The dish is elegantly potted with fluted walls rising from the flat base to six petal lobes, decorated to the centre with a lotus pod with seeds, covered overall with a thin lustrous glaze of pale ivory tone.

Compare to a Northern Song dynasty white-glazed barbed-rim dish excavated in Changsha, Hunan Province, now preserved in the Hunan Museum, illustrated in Complete Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, Vol. 13, Hubei Hunan, Beijing, 2008, no.211. Compare also a pair of similar white-glazed moulded 'lotus pod' dishes from Dorothy Goldman, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2024, lot 808.