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A RARE MOLDED ‘DING’ ‘BUDDHIST LION’ 北宋 / 金 定窰白釉印花佛獅戲繡球紋盤
DISH 來源：
NORTHERN SONG / JIN DYNASTY 香港私人收藏
finely potted with gently rounded sides rising to an everted
rim, the interior incised with a striding Buddhist lion reaching
towards a beribboned brocade ball surrounded by dense
scrolls, the cavetto decorated with a band of eight repeating
sections of leafy scrolls, the rim bound in gilt-metal
Diameter 8½ in., 21.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Hong Kong Private Collection.
The design of the present dish is quite rare and few similar
dishes have been published. See a closely related example
excavated in Quyang, Hebei, illustrated in Complete
Collection of Ceramic Art Unearthed in China, vol. 3, Beijing,
2008, pl. 170. See a line drawing of a Ding dish with a closely
related design of a Buddhist lion in pursuit of a beribboned
ball, illustrated in Li Zhiyan, Ding Yao Ceramics from the
Beixuan Shuzhai Collection, Hong Kong, 2013, p. 53, fig. 41.
Compare also two dishes with a similar motif: one sold in our
London rooms, 9th June 1987, lot 138 and another sold in
our Hong Kong rooms, 4th April 2017, lot 3203.

⊖ $ 35,000-45,000

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