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A RARE DING MOULDED ‘CHILONG’ DISH A Ding dish with identical moulded design is in the National
Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Decorated Porcelains of
JIN DYNASTY (1115-1234) Dingzhou: White Ding Wares from the collection of the National Palace
Museum, Taipei, 2014, cover and pp. 172-173, no. II-112. The
The dish is potted with gently rounded sides rising from a author notes that this design is very similar to a dish mould dated
countersunk base, crisply moulded with a coiled chilong amidst leafy to the 24th year of Dading (1184), found in Beizhen, Quyang
pomegranate scrolls, the well with a band of cloud scrolls below a city, see ibid, p. 173.
keyfret band, covered with a clear ivory-toned glaze. The mouth is
mounted with a metal ring. 金 定窯印花螭舞石榴紋盤

5 ¬ in. (14.3 cm.) diam., box 國立故宮博物院藏有一件金代定窯印花螭舞石榴碟，其紋飾與本品
如出一轍，見載蔡玫芬，《定州花瓷-院藏定窯系白瓷特展》，台
HK$260,000-400,000US$34,000-52,000 北，2014年，封面及172-173頁，編號II-112。據作者所述，此種紋
飾與曲陽北鎮所出大定二十四年（1184）「甲辰」款的印模十分相
似，見前揭書，173頁。

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