Lot Essay
No other Dingyao mortar of this remarkable size and sculptural form is recorded.
Cf. a hexagonal dingyao mortar crisply moulded to the sides with lion-masks within shaped panels from the Frederick M. Mayer collection sold in our London Rooms, 24 June 1974, now in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, pl. 28; and an octagonal xingyao mortar with mythical beast masks crisply moulded to the sides within panels edged with simulated bamboo from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in London, 12 December 1989, lot 74. A qingbai type mortar in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 4, pl. XI, no. 182
Cf. a hexagonal dingyao mortar crisply moulded to the sides with lion-masks within shaped panels from the Frederick M. Mayer collection sold in our London Rooms, 24 June 1974, now in the Matsuoka Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Masterpieces of Oriental Ceramics, pl. 28; and an octagonal xingyao mortar with mythical beast masks crisply moulded to the sides within panels edged with simulated bamboo from the British Rail Pension Fund, sold in London, 12 December 1989, lot 74. A qingbai type mortar in the Percival David Foundation is illustrated in the Catalogue, Section 4, pl. XI, no. 182